Today, we launched Digitalnomads.com, in conjunction with the launch of new Latitude commercial laptops and Dell Precision mobile workstations. As part of the launch, I crafted a post on what the whole concept of ‘digital nomads’ meant.

As I wrote it, and as I viewed videos of people who had millions of frequent flyer miles, I thought about what it was that made me a digital nomad. What I decided was that perhaps my story of moving from a desk-based knowledge worker to one that was nomadic, moving from space to space with my laptop the center of my workspace, would resonate with an even larger percent of our readers than the guy who suggests you keep a blanket over your head while flying internationally. I’m not saying he’s not right, but would what he said really resonate with my peers? So, hopefully in the coming weeks and months, I’ll begin to write about the benefits of going completely mobile. What are the challenges? What are the benefits? How do I collaborate with my colleagues.

Stay tuned.

My day-job gives me the opportunity to play with social media stuff, learn of new tools and blog about what I’ve learned. Our Chief Marketing Officer recently gave me the challenge of learning Jott and blogging on it as an example of the types of services that are available and are built on servers and storage that my company provides. My previous post here was me playing around with the service. Here’s the post as it appeared in it’s entirety on our internal Marketing blog.

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If you watched the video-based CliffsNotes version of Mark’s presentation (this linked to an internal presentation not available to you) on The Connected Era last week, he spoke on five aspects of how our lives and our industry are changing. One of the points he made was that increasingly we have access to everything online in real time. His example of a service that enables that was jott.com.

I had seen an article or two on the service but to be honest was a bit leery of signing up for yet another service – even a free one like jott. I was also a bit cautious of talking internally about using a Dell-issued cell phone for this sort of thing but quickly began to realize just how helpful this would be on my personal, family phone. I reached out to my internal network but wasn’t able to find a true jott guru, so I began using the service myself.

Here’s my story — give me a little grace as I’ve only been using it for a short time.

Someone sent me a link to a post by the folks at Duct Tape Marketing that said the following:  “There was a great movie years ago called Night Shift (1982). In it, Michael Keaton’s character carried around a mini tape recorder to capture his brilliant business ideas. One of my favorites was “Feed Mayonnaise to Tuna Fish” – something about making better tuna sandwiches – but I digress!”

The problem with this is that the device was tape-based, and would require him to listen to it and then transcribe it back to himself later.

Well, essentially, jott is like Michael Keaton’s tape recorder on steroids. You can use it to send yourself an e-mail message or reminder, add To-Do items to your action list, send a status update to your Twitter account, update a blog post (WordPress, Blogger etc.) or send a message to a group of individuals. If you’ve got a team of people you frequently work with, you can use it to send a message to them by simply dialing just one phone number.

If you go to lifehacker, a site that “provides tech tricks, tips and downloads for getting things done,” they’ve got a great overview of exactly what you can do with jott.

I came across one blog where a guy named Eddie Mikell used jott to blog his way across the United States with his wife. Very cool and the voice recognition capabilities are incredible.

To sign up for the free service, go to www.jott.com, fill out a couple of fields, enter your mobile phone number, call in to register your number and you’re ready to jott.

The folks at Jott.com have a blog where they give real-world examples of their service and you can also follow them on their Twitter account. You can also check out videos and other information on their community page.

Let us know if you’re a jott power user and how you’ve used the service at Dell or in your personal life. If you’ve found other Connected Age services that you think would be helpful to your marketing colleagues, add a comment below.