Freelancing Continues Growth, Picking Up Speed, is it Nature, Nurture or Both?
The world of freelancing seems just keep on expanding, some recent articles highlighting the trend: Global Online Employment Report, Q1 2012, Elance: General growth across the board, QoQ growth showed Creative skills at 32%, Marketing at 22%, Operations at 22% and IT at 14%, with many specific skill sets ranging from +40% all the way [...]
How Associations can Benefit from Using a Private Network
A private network can be a useful collaboration tool for associations, from starting off with a group that already is established, you can tailor the network just for you and your group. Here are 20 benefits you can get from having your own private network: 1. New Members: Have different types of reference information available. [...]
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 [...]
10 Things You Won’t Find When Having Your Own Network, and 10 You Will
If you’ve spent a fair amount of time on this or that public or social network, you’ve probably had more than a few opportunities to see both their advantages and disadvantages, warts and all. Advantages are usually along the lines of having a simple way to communicate or collaborate with others while disadvantages seem to [...]
Summer Hobbies Kickoff, 20 for Starters
For the Friday posting, try to leave it with something a little lighter, more appropriate for your weekend activities. Specifically, the many summer hobbies about to be getting underway, and how you can use your network to help get the most of them. What hobbies? Given it’s summer, probably a little focus on the outdoors [...]
Additional Use Cases Added to Solutions
To better explain how to use an Intranet or private network solution in different types of environments, there has been five use cases added to each of solutions pages. This is from a combination of customer feedback and our own internal use (yes, we do eat our own dog food). Click on a solution to [...]
Starting Your Own Network is like Growing a Tree
Maybe so, maybe not, but seemed like an interesting idea at the time. How so? Barren Ground: When first logging into your own network, haven’t added anything, nothing there. The Planting: Starts with a seed, or in this case your ideas, or new topical folders. Roots: Having some depth, able to share with others from [...]
Get Your Small Business Organized with a Low Cost Intranet Solution
Small business owners are used to juggling many different hats and roles, moving from one thing to another, like a frog skipping across an ocean of lily pads. Never settling in one or another for too long before something comes up and on to the next. To help keep things running smoothly, you can use [...]
10 Topics to Start Your Personal Network
When starting your own private network for personal use, you get a clean, minimalistic tool to help manage your content, which is great except that when starting out, your network is empty until it actually is used. Sort of like having that magical guitar but not being able to hear its’ sound unless of course, [...]
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 [...]
6 Ways to Spark Your Creativity with a Private Network
Just in time for the weekend, here are six ways that you can use a private network to help spark and build momentum with some of your creative endeavors. 1) Fail in Private Anytime you try something new, failure seems to be a companion never too far away. To help minimize some of the baggage [...]
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 [...]
A Private Network for Small Groups
There are many benefits a small group can get from setting up a private network. As people have busy schedules, it’s not always easy to get together in person, even though the activities of the group continue to move forward. Here are seven ways a small group can benefit from using a private network: 1) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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