Small Business Marketing, Start the Day with Tailored News Updates
If you run a small business or are engaged with freelancing activities, you’re always looking for ways to get more done with your very limited time. Some things work out well, some not so much, but if your activities are focused, you can get a few things done at the same time, meaning that even [...]
Organizing Content with Folders Instead of Pages
While it might seem great if everything that you did worked out perfectly, it just doesn’t happen, hindsight is 20/20, best you can do is probably just be grateful you learn the lesson when you did rather than later. Such is the case with the Pages application, RIP. How it Started: The original idea or [...]
Sharing New Music on a Private Network
Looking for a simple way to share some of your music creations with others? Surprisingly, or not, not every song or musical piece needs to be created for some type of mass market, gargantuan audience, with an overkill recording studio or further promoted with a lengthy road tour. Sometimes, you just feel like recording a [...]
Create and Share a Short Story with the Notes Application
By using the Notes application, you can create and share what you could call a journal or series short stories with others in your network. Here’s a short walk-through of some of the advantages as well as actually getting started and setting it up. Advantages with Private Network Before jumping right into the process, here’s [...]
Rich Text Editing Added to Documents, A Streamlined List View
The Documents application has been tweaked to better accommodate more detailed descriptions of any files stored, such as from office files, photos, images, graphics, audio, music or video. The changes include 1) rich text editing for the description and 2) removing the description from the initial list view. As the focus of the Documents application [...]
New Layout for Updates, More Focus on Internal Content
A small tweak has been made the Updates application or tab, that being the layout of the applications that are displayed. The original idea was to show the external content first, such as recent news feeds or websites added, with internal applications next, followed by recent comments and pages. As this is a private network, [...]
A Tool for Giving Updates from the Road
One way to use a private network is when you’re on a trip or journey somewhere and you’d like to share the experience with maybe a few others that are too busy or have other engagements to join you at the time. This includes activities such as sharing a journal while you ago, maybe to [...]
Taking Control of Your Search
If you find yourself getting annoyed from too many of your search results being filled with ads, or the websites that do come up are little more than ads making up ~90% of the page, one can’t help but to start thinking that there has to be a better alternative. It’s just not efficient, or [...]
Using Actions for a New Project
Have a new idea or project that you’d like to get started? Here’s a little refresher on how you can do so with the Actions application. Setting up the Project Do this by creating a new folder, naming it the same as the project. You can look at the folder as a collection of application [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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