New Tagline, “Secure Private Networks”
In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a change with the Odysen tagline, located on the top left corner of this page, going from “Simple to Create, Easy to Share” to “Secure Private Networks”. Why the change? Some History To start with, a little background of the previous version, “Simple to Create, Easy to [...]
Privacy Concerns and Lessons Learned
It seems like just about everyone these days all of a sudden has a heightened sense of awareness for anything related to Internet privacy. Some of the latest: Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’, Huffington Post Google in trouble in Europe and U.S. for Safari privacy violations, Venturebeat Does Google Deserve [...]
Subscription Plans Modified for Different Groups
Such is the case with learning, the upside is you usually end up in a better place, the downside of course being that the place you were at no longer has the same value that you once had for it. Call it a mistake, a stepping stone, learning lesson, either way you embrace the change, [...]
Recent News Article Expands for Easier Viewing
Now when viewing your news feeds, you’ll notice the column width of the recent article has been increased a bit. This was done to better accommodate some of the longer blog or article titles. The problem being that if an article was too long, it would continue to a second row, making the overall row [...]
Websites Layout Change, Created Date Included
The Websites application has received a couple small changes to help review a larger or more detailed list of websites. This includes a wider column width for the name and description as well as displaying the date that the website was added. Here’s a screenshot of the new layout: and how you can benefit from: [...]
Add Multiple Folder Owners from the Contacts Application
Aligning to the recent change within the folder overview, the Contacts application also includes the option to add multiple owners to a folder. This is shown when you click the Contacts tab followed by the new filter called Owners, as displayed in the screenshot below: What types of users should be added as an Owner? [...]
View Only Your Comments with the My Comments Filter
A new filter has been added to the Comments application or tab, that being My Comments, or a filter to view only the comments that you’ve added. To see this, just click the Comments tab followed by clicking the My Comments filter, here’s a screenshot of the new layout: Once clicked, you have the following [...]
16 Recent Articles to Kick Start Your Freelancing Activities
Whenever starting a new freelancing endeavor, one of the biggest challenges is somehow managing all the unknowns. You have a general idea of what you’re getting into but going that extra step can be a bit different. Sort of like taking that hobby or special interest that you have, realizing that over time you’ve become [...]
All Folder Expansion, Add Content and New Users
Continuing the theme of making your network easier to use with other users, the All folder has received a couple changes, both for sharing content with others as well as adding new users to a network. Sharing Content With Others Previously, while you could view content integrated from across your network, you could not add [...]
Edit and Add Other Users Directly from Folder Overview
Along with the other content added to the folder overview section, you can also change the users the folder is shared with. This includes changing the permissions of Owner, Editor or Reader as well as adding other users from your network. Summary of Changes Here are the different options available. User Name: Clicking on a [...]
Folder Options Moved to the Center
To help make some of the options with folders more intuitive, a few of them have been moved from the left navigation section to the folder overview section in the middle of the page. These include the options to Edit the folder, send an email notification and sharing folders with others. The options to Create, [...]
5 Advantages of Blogs for Learning Something New
Even though blogs may not have the attention as the latest social networking fad, they still should not be overlooked as a valuable resource whenever trying to learn something new. Whether for a hobby, vacation, research, or staying informed at work, here are five advantages blogs have over social networks. For Publishers As with most [...]
Share Your Favorite Websites with Others
Whenever you find a new website that you think has value or that there’s a good chance of a return visit, you’ll usually bookmark it in one of your personal bookmark tools. This could be from your browser for personal backup or sharing the bookmark in a more public community such as different social bookmarking [...]
Language Changes Implemented
For people using a network in a language besides English, you’ll notice a few updates have been made over the last couple weeks, some of these include: Sharing Folders: This is for creating or editing a folder and sharing it with others. The changes made include updating the process of adding Editors and Readers to [...]
Get Privacy With Multiple Networks
While different social networks see their business model evolving to better cater to different advertisers by integrating information about you, you can use multiple private networks to get back your privacy and help your multi-dimensional personality engage with a more comfortable environment. Combining them all together is like having all the stoplights at a busy [...]
10 Ways to Use the Notes Application
As notes are so simple to use, you can easily find a use for them in just about any situation or environment. Helpful to capture the idea that has value at the moment, so you can go back to for reference or sharing with others. Sort of the like trying to remember a nice or [...]
View all Your Events in the All Folder
As you add different events to your various projects, activities or folders, each shared with different users, you can see an integrated view of all your events from simply clicking on the All folder. These could include: Personal events that you’ve added in your own folders. Events you’ve share with others in different folders. Events [...]
Organize Translations and Other Activities
Translators can use a private network to both share new translations as well as other activities they find themselves involved with. Sharing Your Translations Create a folder for the project and share it with who is providing the original text. If this is from a website, you can add the link in the websites tab. [...]
Adding a Folder for Different Areas of Your Business
This can be a really easy way to set up and organize your many different activities, projects and reference information. Share folders with different users and they’ll only be able to view the folders you’ve shared with them, making a clean and efficient network for everyone. To add a folder to your network, just highlight [...]
Organize Writing Projects
For writing out anything more extensive than a blog article, it usually becomes far from a trivial task. From the initial ideas, research, writing, images or photos, reviewing with others, then of course all the fun with any publishing activities, whether DIY or fortunate enough to have an agent or publisher, there’s never a shortage [...]
Adding Users to Multiple Folders at Once
There is now a new layout for adding other users to sub-folders. This can be helpful when either creating a number of new projects or folders, or adding a new user to your network. Either way, you’re adding users to many different folders at the same time, making it a little easier to share content [...]
Setting up a Network for the Neighborhood
For people living in a friendly neighborhood, using a private network can be a helpful way to organize and share your common interests and activities. With your own network, you can make sure that only you and others you’ve included have access or visibility to your content. All of your network pages are under HTTPS [...]
Getting Focused with the My Actions Filter
So a new project starts off small, maybe 5-10 main actions that can be done with 2-3 people. If the project is exciting or seems to be resonating with people, or with a larger event that’s getting closer to show time, that initial project can easily grow from that initial small group to 10-20 or [...]
Using a Private Network in Education to Collaborate, Backup and Research
For people in school that work on projects or assignments from different locations, you can use a private network for your collaboration, backup, and research. This can be especially helpful for people involved with remote education or getting an advanced degree on a part-time basis. Situations outside of the normal college environment where everyone is [...]
How Photographers can Share Photos, Schedule Events and More
For people interested in photography, either as a hobby or for more professional freelancing activities, you can use a private network to help organize your photos, schedule events, create projects or use other applications as appropriate. Here’s some of the highlights or key features that photographers can use with their network. Sharing Photos You can [...]
Take Control of Your Content with Your Own Network
As various types of networks continue marching to the mantra that privacy is unimportant, actual users continue to object, some examples: Online privacy real concern for 90% of US Internet users, Biz Report: A discussion of a new survey showing the vast majority of US consumers have concerns with their online privacy. App Privacy Issues [...]
How Architects can use to Manage Projects
As projects for architects are usually relatively longer term, this gives room for many different types of projects to be happening simultaneously. You can different areas for new or potential prospect stage, others that committed, active and where you spend most of your time on, others where construction is in stages of completion, needing minimal [...]
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 [...]
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