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Peter Shankman gets asked that a lot, as he mentions in his blog. He is the guy that started Help A Reporter Out (HARO) which has been going for a while now, and has a lot of top journos and freelance writers using it for finding relevent sources. All that for $0.00 precisely.

His beef is with people who think he’s not working hard, just because he happens to be “sitting in the lounge at Gatwick, munching on a bagel,” in “Singapore–>EWR flight delayed, hitting Duty Free, anyone want anything?” or  “sitting on the hood of my rental car, watching the sunset from the desert outside of Eloy, Arizona.” [That last one made me look around my office and think, hmmm!]

People who work in this exciting social media world live online. They fire up their latest iGizmo version 1.whatever, and start to blog, vlog, IM, Tweet, Plurk, podcast, Digg, StumbleUpon, e-mail, and Phweet (there’s a new one for ya). Sure I missed some. Just because they’re not in an office cubicle somewhere doesn’t mean they’re not working hard, putting in 100% for their clients, and getting excellent results.

Shankman is a digital nomad [Dell is a client], someone who can sit in the sun on his patio, sipping a cold one, and still close some deals. Office rent is a thing of the past in this area of the digital workplace. It’s very exciting, and liberating.

~ John Carson, Senior Digital Media Specialist, GCI Canada