Personal Networks Swinging from Quantity to Quality

It seems the pendulum of personal network trends, at least for what you can consider the mainstream, is starting its’ swing back from one end of quantity (how many thousands of “friends” can you get) towards another end that you could say is tending towards higher quality (or perhaps a “less is more” perspective). You [...]

New Viewing Options for Photos and Images

You can now share your photos and images a little easier with some of the new viewing changes available in the Documents application.   These include an appropriately sized preview as well as the full screen option if needed. This can be helpful for sharing trips or vacations with others in your private network.  They can [...]

More Freelancing Updates, Continues Growth

For what it’s worth, here’s a few recent updates on the ever growing freelancing economy, including ideas, warnings and suggestions for beginners, aspects from education, a recent new businesses update, freelance writer updates, and tips for getting the full value from your endeavors. The Human Side of Freelancing, Miracletwentyone: Combining the head, the hand and [...]

New Email Notifications Layout, Adding Recipients to Bcc Field

Now when you send an email notification, you’ll see a slightly modified layout along with a new field to add people to a Blind Carbon Copy or Bcc option.  Here is a screenshot of the new layout and process. Overview of the New Layout After you select an item to send an email notification from, [...]

What’s in a Name, Support & Help Desk

To better differentiate between the “Support” available on the external Odysen website and the support area available when logged into your network, the network label for support has now been changed to “Help Desk”. Exciting I know but as they’re in different areas and represent different types of support, they need to have different names, [...]

New Logos for Network Subsciption Plans

Along with the earlier mentioned changes to the website, you’ll also see a new logo or symbol for each of the plans. Below is a brief summary of each, along with a short explanation of the meaning, purpose or thinking behind the image. Spark Call it your light in the night, a minimalistic fire for [...]

An Online Network for Vietnamese Collaboration

While Vietnam continuing growth isn’t exactly news, considering the relative lack of growth elsewhere, it’s always helpful to see how others are moving forward, maybe awareness of other perspectives and how it can apply to your own. After all, everything has its’ own way of evolving and like a magnet, we gravitate towards where new [...]

Inviting New Users Simplified, No Welcome Email Needed

Now whenever you add new users to your network, you don’t have to worry about sending them a welcome email.   Just start sharing content with them and send them an email notification from either a folder or an application item (an action, note, document, etc).  When they click the link in their email to visit [...]

Sharing Folders Moved to Contacts, a More Intuitive Process

To help make sharing folders with other users on your network a little easier, this function has been moved from the folder section into its’ more appropriate place, the Contacts application. Sharing Folders in Contacts This way, after you add a new folder, just go to the Contacts tab, add other users from your network [...]

New Formatting Options When Adding Text to Notes, Actions and Emails

Now whenever you add a note, action, or sending an email notification, you’ll see a few additional font options to tweak the style of any text you’re writing.  These include changing the font color, the background color, the font type as well as the font size. To make changes, just highlight the appropriate text and [...]

Pages Tweak for User Preferences

Call it a detour too many or a bridge too far, but one of the features of the Pages application has been pulled back after some recent user feedback (we listen to our users… ). The Way it Was Whenever you would create a new folder, a new page would also automatically be created, with [...]

Online Tools for Working with the Booming Economy in Poland

While much of Europe is busy with concerns for Greece, the Euro, and all the other derivatives (no pun intended) or baggage that comes with it, people in Poland have been and continue to be enjoying one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. Some Examples: To highlight what’s been happening, here’s a few recent [...]

Getting a Quick Preview of Your Application Items Before Deleting

Now whenever you’d like to remove an item from any of the applications, you’ll see a quick preview of the item before you confirm to actually delete. This is set up for when you highlight an item and click delete, the new window that appears to ask you to confirm now shows the application item [...]

A New Layout to Help Manage Multiple Networks

Here is an overview of a new layout you can you use to help your manage multiple Odysen networks. Why the Change? With the introduction of the Spark plan, having more than one network can quickly become a common occurrence for anyone using an Odysen network.  For example, you create your first Spark network, invite [...]

Start Your Fire with a Free Spark Plan!

To help users get a better feel with using an Odysen Intranet or private network solution, you can now do so with an absolutely free plan, called the Spark! Similar to the Creative plan but with a Basic user limit of 10 users and one Spark network per person, or their email address.  This way, [...]

A Collaboration Tool for Working with Partners in Japan

As businesses in Japan continue their recovery and things stabilize, relatively at least, and if you’re planning to visit on a more regular basis as well as organize your activities a bit more, here’s an example of how you can do so using an Odysen Intranet solution. Personalization and Setup When setting up your network, [...]

A Phoenix Rising in Greece, The Bartering Network Environment

While you could use any number of clichés to describe a recent phenomenon in Greece, no doubt the legend for the phoenix from Herodotus might resonate a little for the emerging barter networks in Greece. The change being as enterprising locals are feeling stuck with too many regulations to operate as regular business, combined with [...]

Organizing a League with a Private Network

For those managing or organizing league activities, such as for your fantasy sports or the more physical hand eye coordination with darts or pool, here’s a quick walk-through of how you can use an Odysen private network solution with some of your activities. Sharing Internal Activities Using a private network can be helpful in groups [...]