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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Artisans Experiencing New Growth, Gift Ideas for the Holidays
From helping rural areas find opportunities for their traditional designs such as in India and Haiti, to supporting local communities for holiday shopping, to providing therapeutic support and peace of mind, artisan activities seem to be awakening across the board. Here are a few articles recently announced. Making rural artisans shareholders, The Times of India: [...]
100 Ways Freelancers are Changing our Culture
It doesn’t take very long these days to come across articles and activities showing freelancing on the rise. Almost everyone you talk to seems to be involved in some type of freelancing activity, whether just starting out and getting involved in something new, taking an activity already being worked on to the next level, already [...]
More Freelancing Updates, Continues Growth
For what it’s worth, here’s a few recent updates on the ever growing freelancing economy, including ideas, warnings and suggestions for beginners, aspects from education, a recent new businesses update, freelance writer updates, and tips for getting the full value from your endeavors. The Human Side of Freelancing, Miracletwentyone: Combining the head, the hand and [...]
A Phoenix Rising in Greece, The Bartering Network Environment
While you could use any number of clichés to describe a recent phenomenon in Greece, no doubt the legend for the phoenix from Herodotus might resonate a little for the emerging barter networks in Greece. The change being as enterprising locals are feeling stuck with too many regulations to operate as regular business, combined with [...]
Using an Intranet to Help Manage Home Healthcare Networks
For those in the home healthcare area looking for a tool to help get better organized, here’s a quick walk through of how you can use an Odysen network. Introduction and Expectations Before getting ahead of ourselves too much, let’s take a little step back and get a quick reset of some of the problems [...]
10 Blogs to Help Spark or Rekindle Your Creative Fire
For anyone looking for some new ideas to help keep the creative fire lit a bit longer, or stronger, here’s ten blogs you can throw in as a little kindling for the task at hand. Lateral Action Lots of examples and ideas of creative projects, including this recent example, maybe funny if weren’t true, How [...]
A Simple to Use Collaboration Solution for Developers
Here’s a solution to help designers or developers looking for an easy way to organize some of their day to day activities. Get a comprehensive tool to organize your content, use a variety of applications for different needs and options to share with others on your team. Project Management Developers or designers can use a [...]