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Moving between places
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Other examples of digital platforms that enabled our respondents to connect based on the location were the platform meet-up.com - where a broad range of get-togethers and events are indexed based on, amongst others, location – or nomadlist.com – a specialized nomad website that indexes locations based on a wide variety of characteristics. Figure 2.7 shows a platform where – when selecting a particular city – users can see who is currently present in a city, who will be in a city, and who has been in a city. Also, an integral part of the website was an active forum as well as an active Slack channel, where people had lively discussions. In this community, our respondents were consuming (reading, watching, and listening) the experiences of 'distant others' to provide some initial guidance by following blogs and, more importantly, joining virtual communities. The knowledge shared on one of the forums was of strategic value for the workers, and the trust within the community - to safely share such knowledge - seemed to be partially due to the fact that members do not share anything outside of the forum. As participant observers in the Slack channel, we saw people posing questions concerning practical issues
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