I'm a web designer, travel marketer and long term wanderer, on the road since 2003. Check out my
My dear readers, I will soon be adding some new categories to Nomadic Notes, including book reviews and other travel site reviews. I am also about to embark on a monster blog post transfer. I have old blog posts on the blogger.com platform, but wordpress has since become the blogging platform of choice. So if you are wondering why you are seeing posts of me in Belgium when I am in Borneo, or why I am at the 2006 World Cup in 2010, don’t worry, it is just my old posts moving over to this domain.
Heading to New York and TBEX '10
My principal job as a web developer means that don’t need an office and I can work anywhere in the world. While I enjoy working my own hours, not wearing a tie or answering phones, most of my work related social interaction occurs online.
This week I will be hanging up my cloak of virtual anonymity and be meeting my travel blogging peers at the Travel Blog Exchange TBEX ’10 in New York City.
I don’t need an excuse to visit New York, so visiting for this much anticipated travel event is a great double.
I Am Not My Avatar
When I represent myself online I usually use my Nomadic Notes Avatar. I do this for 2 reasons:
1) Branding
2) I can’t be bothered keeping my face picture up to date across dozens of social media sites.
Nomadic Notes Avatar
That does mean though that when I go to industry events I usually have to introduce myself as “James Clark…Nomadic Notes”.
So if you are going to TBEX’ 10, this is what I look like. Look out for me and say hi. You may have to introduce yourself by your real name and your user name as well.
Yours truly, Laviating.
Nomadic Photos – The New Home For Travel Photos
I have started a new site to store my travel photos: www.nomadicphotos.com.
I have a number of travel websites that I run and edit, so rather than uploading photos to different sites they will now all be at one location.
Nomadic Photos is set up with SmugMug. I am using the Pro option and I have to say this is going to make managing photos online a whole lot easier. Pro offers unlimited storage, hosting using your own URL, and shopping cart services.
One of the best features is the ability to generate a link if someone wants to use a photo. I have many photos that are hot linked (re stolen) without a link back, so at least with this option the link back is built in.
There is also the option to watermark photos with your own logo. I got the Nomadic Photos logo from ivylime Design (thanks Man Vs. Debt).
Welcome to Nomadic Notes
Hello and welcome to Nomadic Notes. My name is James Clark and I work in the travel industry and e-commerce. I work from home, and with a laptop home can be anywhere I choose.
Nomadic Notes is my travel blog that will feature observations on the road and working on the road as an urban nomad.
This site began in February 2009, though I have since transferred blog posts from other blogs that date from 2005.
