See an Integrated View of All Recent News Updates
To help scan through any changes from your blogs, you can now see the most recent blog posting title along with the published date any time you click on the News tab. To visit and read the article, just click on the title of the posting and it will show up in a new browser [...]
New Plan Changes: More Advanced Users, Cheaper Storage Expansion
I’m happy to announce some new changes with the subscription plans, helping to both grow and simplify the options available. These impact all the plans, with more Advanced users, changes to Basic users, more storage as well as cheaper expansion options. This comes from getting a better understanding of our users and adapting the plans [...]
Planning for a Remote Trip or Getaway, Such as Alaska…
While not necessarily a frequent occurrence, every once in awhile it’s nice to be able to get away for a bit of an extended trip. Maybe a little longer than a few days, as well as to a place a little different than what you’re used to. This could be your dream vacation or just [...]
Eight Blogs to Help Your SEO Endeavors
You go through all the work of setting up and publishing a website, next step is how to get it noticed. Besides adding your own unique and interesting content, there’s always lots of little tips or tricks of the trade that one can do to make a difference. As you’re just getting started, seeing and [...]
Using a Private Network With a New Family Member
Whenever a new member of the family is introduced to the world, it’s like a big shiny new people magnet, drawing in all close family and friends that the child is and will continue to grow up with. As the excitement for such an event will probably be a little different from others not as [...]
News Reader Tweak, Descriptions Shown in List View
Now whenever you click on the News reader application tab, you can see any descriptions that have been added to the news feeds. These are the descriptions of the RSS URLs, which the user may have added when they first set up the news item. You can add or modify the description at any time [...]
23 Ways to Use the Alerts Feature in Events
While you can use the Events application for scheduling any and every event that you might come across, as well as events that others in your network have shared with you, some events you might want to pay a little more attention to. These are events that are different from the others, most often where [...]
Accessing Odysen over Mobile, iPad and iPhone Example
As mobile is used for just about everything else these days, you can also use with an Odysen network. It’s been tested over most devices and browsers and while there’s always changes and fixes to be made (such as reacting to new browser upgrades), it’s generally good to go and looking for feedback. Below are [...]
10 Blogs and Websites for Aspiring Writers
Thinking of turning a writing hobby into something more? If so, there’s a few options available, either from submitting a story to an online journal or going straight to self-publishing and promotion. Both can be ok for your situation, have different audiences and purposes. Journals, Getting Exposure If testing out the waters, this can be [...]
20 Blogs for Musicians
One of the nice things with music is how versatile it can be. Adaptable for beginners or experts, playing solo or with others, playing live vs recording, not to mention all the different instruments, in strings, keys, horns and drums, all playing together to a voice or hum. To help keep in tune or learn [...]
10 Blogs for Artisans
Interested in learning more about some Artisan endeavors? If so, here’s a few blogs of some Artisans sharing their creations as well as a day in the life perspective. Although in looking over the list, it seems it may have been created on a bit of an empty stomach. Oh well, everyone needs to eat [...]
10 Blogs for Freelancers
For freelancers just starting out or others looking for ways to stay informed of how others are doing it, here’s a list of ten freelancing blogs to get started with (in no particular order). Guerrilla Freelancing: For the freelancer just starting out, “Our main objective is to be a voice for those who have not [...]
Going Gonzo With Your Network, Part 6: Multiple Networks
As you’ve seen over the last week, an Odysen network is not exactly designed to be exclusive for this or that specific niche, outside of what you can consider a relatively smaller group that are active with doing things and have a respect for privacy. With that, it’s not unimaginable that you could be involved [...]
Going Gonzo With Your Network, Part 5: Personal
With small business and freelancing activities, you’re working on projects and activities that other people can use. With groups your involvement can be more optional, or even seasonal, being more active in winter for needing something to do, summer for regular outside events and get-togethers, or annual for larger gatherings. With personal, these can be [...]
Going Gonzo With Your Network, Part 4: Groups
With groups, getting involved can be done on a more occasional basis, such as planning for upcoming event, workshop, class, seasonal activity or other projects associated with the group. Using a Private Network with a Group Here’s a few ways that different types of groups can use Odysen to really embrace and collaborate using their [...]
Going Gonzo With Your Network, Part 3: Freelancing
Moving on to Freelancing, this is what you could call the epitome of your Gonzo mindset. No rules, no specs, no authority other than your own mind to determine your next course of action, or no action at all, a time for scanning the scene and hearing the tune. Of course, that’s usually the dominant [...]
Going Gonzo With Your Network, Part 2: Small Businesses
You have the germ of the idea for your small business endeavor, but of course there’s always a million directions it could go, depending on all sorts of external factors, influences or distractions. To help get a bead on them and reduce a bit of the chaos, you can load up your network with all [...]
Going Gonzo With Your Own Network, Part 1: Introduction
One of the benefits of an Odysen network is the ability to add an unlimited number of items to the applications, regardless of your plan type. This allows you to sort of embrace the moment whenever that desperately sought source of inspiration happens to strike. Whether from Archimedes taking a bath, Franklin flying a kite, [...]
Create a New Folder and Share with Others at the Same Time
To make adding users to new folders a little easier, you can now do so at the same time as when you’re creating the folder. Creating a New Folder This is done by first clicking the appropriate parent folder (in a new network this would be the “All” folder). Once the folder is selected, click [...]
Viewing Your Upcoming Events from Bottom Toolbar
To make it easier to view any of your upcoming events, you can now see more than just your next upcoming event from the events viewing shortcut. Just click on the current event listed and any other events will be shown as below. From this you can see the name of the item, the start [...]
Keeping Informed of Upcoming Events with an Email Alert
Now for any events that you’ve saved in your network, you can add an alert, or email reminder, to help provide a quick notice before the event actually occurs. This can be helpful in a number of situations, some examples: Small Business: Set an alert for an upcoming customer meeting one day ahead of time, [...]