The Digital Nomad Resources page – a directory of websites about location-independent living and digital nomadism. Features sites about how to be a digital nomad, courses, books, conferences, and meet-ups.
I’ve posted the links as a directory of resources. A listing does not represent editorial endorsement.
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Banking
I have a comprehensive guide to the best new banks for travellers, expats, and nomads
Blogs/Resources
Based Bachelor – A blog about travel, self improvement, and living abroad in China.
Become Nomad – Resources for those choosing a nomadic lifestyle.
Black Digital Nomad – inspiring people of color to work from anywhere in the world.
Digital Nomad Girls – A community for digital nomad women around the world.
Digital Nomad Wannabe – Sharon Gourlay chronicles her journey as a digital nomad, featuring income reports and niche site case studies.
Freedom Is Everything – Guilde on how to become a digital nomad and other resources and tips.
Freemadic – Features interviews, resources, and destination guides.
Life Remotely – Features travel advice and work while travelling.
Nomad Flag – Keith is a traveller, entrepreneur, and techie who writes on this location independent travel and digital nomad blog. Travel and nomad tips for independent travellers, digital nomads, and expats.
Nomadtopia – tips and inspiration for location independent living and long term travel.
NuNomad – A resource for those who have (or desire) to escape the office or home office to work abroad in their mobile office.
Remoters – Resources for digital nomads, remote professionals and teams.
Suitcase Entrepreneur – Create a profitable business online and a lifestyle of freedom, by Natalie Sisson.
Books
Anywhere – A handbook by AND CO for anyone who is considering becoming a digital nomad. 150+ pages of tips and best practices on housing, budgeting, visas & more.
Digital Nomad – by Tsugio Makimoto and David Manners. This was written in 1997 and it seems to be the origin of the phrase digital nomad.
The 4-Hour Workweek – By Timothy Ferriss. Originally published in 2007, this book is credited with bringing the concept of location independence to the mainstream.
Be a Digital Nomad: A Making It Anywhere guide – A collection of blog posts in book format from makingitanywhere.com.
The Suitcase Entrepreneur: Create freedom in business and adventure in life – By Natalie Sisson.
Digital Nomad: Work online, Travel the world, live a location independent lifestyle – By Dave Brett.
Be a Free Range Human: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills – By Marianne Cantwell.
The Fail-Safe Solopreneur – 6 essential practices to manage Your well-being working for yourself, by Darren C. Joe.
Communities and Forums
nomadlist.com – Formerly #nomads, nomadlist is the nomad chat community.
Digital Nomad Community – A gathering place for digital nomads or those interested in the lifestyle. Features a forum and articles on destinations and travel tips.
Dynamite Circle is a private forum for location independent entrepreneurs. Many of the members are running businesses while on the road or expatriating in exotic locations around the world.
Location Independent Families – Facebook group for digital nomad families, for traveling families, or for those who want to be.
Nomad Forum – A question and answer site for remote workers and digital nomads to exchange information on working remotely.
Nomad Together is a community of location independent families and couples.
Queer Women* Digital Nomads – Queer Women* Digital Nomads is an online community Facebook group of queer women-identified and non-binary folks (a.k.a. LGBTQ) living or interested in living the digital nomad, location independent lifestyle.
Conferences/Events/Retreats
DC BKK – Annual conference of the Dynamite Circle forum held in Bangkok.
DNX GLOBAL – Digital nomad conference.
Economadia – The Economadia Summit wants to match the needs of Digital Nomads and Ecovillages, forming collaborative communities towards sustainability.
Meetup – Digital nomad meetups around the world via the Meetup.com network.
Nomad Cruise – A unique new way of networking while crossing the atlantic on a cruise ship.
Nomad Summit – Annual get-together held in Chiang Mai.
Project Getaway – 30 days co-living retreat hosted in places such as Bali and Mauritius.
Running Remote – A conference held in Bali for those running a remote team or thinking of starting one.
Wanderlust Lab – Work retreats and coworking vacations for location independents entrepreneurs, digital nomads and professionals in beautiful and exotic destinations.
Courses
Digital Nomad Academy is a private membership group that focusses on helping you business that can enable you to live and work anywhere. The training program was founded by Cody McKibben, who has been living abroad since 2008.
Create Your Nomadtopia is a course that covers the practical and emotional aspects of disengaging from your “normal” life and hitting the road.
Destination Guides
Extreme Nomads – Sports and outdoors destination guide for active digital nomads.
NomadList.com – Ranking the best cities to live and work remotely.
Nomad Pass – A platform to connect with other digital nomads and find unique places to live and work anywhere.
Teleport – Helps knowledge workers find the best place to be. Lower cost and increase opportunities by smartly choosing where you live and work.
web.work.travel – Travel guide and community for digital nomads.
Digital Nomad Accommodation
Accommodation for long-term travellers and digital nomads
Anyplace – A platform that provides flexible-term housing (month-to-month, no leases) in cities across the globe.
Coworking in the Sun – Workspace and accommodation in Tenerife.
Nomad Rental – Curated serviced apartment hotels. Nomad Rental only lists weekly and monthly extended stay apartment hotels.
YonderWork – An international community experience for remote workers interested in living in new places and learning new skills.
Digital Nomad Finders
Nomad Projects – Find other digital nomads for your next side project.
Nomad Soulmates – A dating app for remote workers, digital nomads, and location-independent people.
Lydiascapes Digital Marketing – Digital Nomad Lydia Yang offers digital marketing consulting and training.
Jobs
Hubstaff – A free directory for remote workers to find remote work.
Jobbatical – Combine work and travel with short-term startup jobs around the globe.
Modern-Day Nomads – Travel jobs and inspiration for globe-trekking creative professionals and digital nomads.
Remote Jobs Club – A free, once–weekly email roundup of remote jobs that aren’t restricted by commutes or a particular geographic area.
Remote OK – Work remotely as a digital nomad or from home as a telecommuting employee.
Working Nomads – A curated list of the best digital jobs for those looking to work remotely.
Podcasts
BecomeNomad Podcast By Eli David – Whether you are a digital nomad on the road, or thinking about changing your current life to becoming a nomad, the BecomeNomad Podcast provides insights and resources to make you a better and more balanced long term traveler and nomad.
Nomadtopia Radio is a weekly podcast that features interviews with people who are living abroad, settling down (for now), traveling overland with kids, homeschooling, or backpacking solo around the world.
The NomadTogether Podcast – Location independence for couples and families.
Travel Like a Boss Podcast – Weekly interviews with online entrepreneurs and location independent business owners who make money online while travelling the world as digital nomads.
Tropical MBA Podcast hosted by Dan and Ian, is a podcast about the growing movement of location independent entrepreneurs worldwide.
Social Media
Reddit – /r/digitalnomad Subreddit for digital nomads.
Quora – Digital nomads topic.
TV and Film
One Way Ticket – Currently in production, this documentary will feature interviews with travelling freelancers, remote workers, and founders of distributed startups.
The Wireless Generation – A documentary about a new generation of people who are taking their careers online in order to travel the world.
