Keeping Others Informed While Telecommuting
Telecommuting continues to grow for a variety of reasons, here’s some of the latest news and blog updates. Survey shows how much Americans love telecommuting, TG Daily: Amongst the results include 29% that would give up chocolate to telecommute. No need to be too irrational. Telecommuting workers improve employee productivity, happiness, retention, The Work at [...]
Using a Private Network for Quality Client Collaboration
As most of your freelancing ideas are not your flash in the pan, overnight, wham bam boom types of successes but rather a slow and steady growth building up trust and increasing your reputation with an initial few clients of your product or service and growing through referrals. Eventually you may have enough customers on [...]
Organizing a Marketing Rollout Plan
Here’s an example of how somebody in a marketing role can use an Odysen network for organizing and launching a new product or service for their market and customers. Overview These are the basic areas that we’ll be going through. Folder Setup: Use to initially organize your different products. Adding Application Content: For different types [...]
See the Total Quantity of Application Items
Within the Updates tab you can see the total quantity of items included in both the folder you’re currently in as well as from any sub-folders. This can be helpful to see the overall activity level of each application for your many different projects and activity levels. For easy reference, the total quantity is displayed [...]
Changing Your Time Zone
For people occasionally traveling across time zones, you can change your time zone to help keep aligned to the events and actions in your network. Here’s a quick walk-through for doing so. Step 1: Click your username on top right of any network page. Step 2: Click Edit profile. Step 3: Select your new time [...]
Enhanced Format for Viewing Photos, Graphics or Images
To better see pictures or other graphics on your network, the uploaded image is now displayed front and center in your item details view, here’s a screenshot of the new layout: This is a custom change just for the images stored within the Documents application. From this view you have the following options: Viewing the [...]
Create a Different Network for Each Key Customer
For collaboration with important customers or clients, while you can create a separate folder within your main network just for them, ok for a one time project or isolated collaboration, but if working with on a more regular basis, it might be better to create a separate network. With a new network being relatively low [...]
Manage Multiple Projects with Sub-Folders
By being a little creative with the folder layout and some filtering options, you can set up a range of projects both big and small. This can be helpful from either having a cornucopia of projects ready to go, or starting with a small seed of a project and finding it growing too big, need [...]
Five Ways to use the Pages Application
The Pages application can be useful for seeing the big picture of some your content. You can add multiple applications onto a single page and format or arrange them however you feel is the most appropriate. If you have a folder set up for a specific project or activity, with content added to each of [...]
See All Your Websites in the All Folder
As you can usually find websites that specialize in just about anything, adding them to various folders and projects can become a common occurrence. Adding some places of interest when planning a trip, customer or supplier websites for business activities, restaurant websites for going out and so on. While it’s nice to have the websites [...]
Moving a Note from a Private Folder to a Shared Folder
This can be helpful when initially adding an idea or note in one of your more private folders, but later decide it’s ok and would be a good idea to share with others. While you could just share the folder, if the folder contains other content you’re not yet ready to share, this might not [...]
Add a Comment Directly From Updates
Whenever you see a new item in Updates, such as a note or document, you have the option to both view the details of the item, add new comment for feedback and sending an email notification of your comment added. Here’s a brief walk-through of the steps involved: View Item Details: Click on the name [...]
View Actions in a Slideshow, Sorted by Priority
The slideshow feature has now been added to the Actions application. This can be helpful to go through a list of actions in a specific folder, such as for an active project you’re working on or an event being planned. While you can set up the slideshow to be in a few different orders or [...]
From Barren Field to Horn of Plenty, Giving Your Personal Network Some Attention
Anytime that you have something of your own, it usually goes without saying that you only get out of it what you put into it. With that in mind, here’s a brief walk through of what it’s like going through what you could call the first season of having a personal network. The Beginning When [...]
Customizing the Slideshow Views
One of the nice features of the slideshow feature is being able to launch it from whatever list view you’re currently looking at. Anytime you click on an application you’ll see the initial view, sorted alphabetically by the item (action, note, event, etc) name. If you click the slideshow button, the slideshow will be shown [...]
Hide a Folder from Others to Plan a Surprise Party
When using a network for a personal solution, you generally have a tendency to share all your folders with everyone. After all, it’s your private network, just like once inside your home you generally have no problem with freely sharing conversations, likewise you can do so with your network online. That said, every once in [...]
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 [...]
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