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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 4: Groups

With groups, getting involved can be done on a more occasional basis, such as planning for upcoming event, workshop, class, seasonal activity or other projects associated with the group. Using a Private Network with a Group Here’s a few ways that different types of groups can use Odysen to really embrace and collaborate using their [...]

Using a Private Network to Plan a Trip, Ireland

One of the things you can do with a private network is planning a trip or vacation.  Obviously this isn’t something you do on a public network, letting anyone know when you’re not going to be home.  Plus, you might be doing lots of independent research or preparation that it’s just more comfortable keeping in [...]

A Response to the Privacy Question…

For anyone that gets annoyed or frustrated with always having to defend themselves on why privacy is something more than just trying to hide something, here’s a response you can generally go with to keep things moving along. “It’s not that I have anything to hide, it’s just that I’m not sure you can understand [...]

Organizing a League with a Private Network

For those managing or organizing league activities, such as for your fantasy sports or the more physical hand eye coordination with darts or pool, here’s a quick walk-through of how you can use an Odysen private network solution with some of your activities. Sharing Internal Activities Using a private network can be helpful in groups [...]

Instead of a Single Public Network and Identity, Have Multiple Private Networks

One of the more comical debates going these days are those discussing the importance of having a single identity for all your communications.   Comical as how ridiculous it is to expect anyone, themselves included, with actually following through with this without getting paralysis or just plain bored. After all, you could say that it’s not [...]

Using Notes for Sending Out Meeting Notes and Group Emails

If you’re with a group of people where everyone knows each other, or maybe a small association or organization, and you get together maybe once a month to go over a few things, no doubt to at least try to keep things running smoothly, you may find yourself sending a few emails.   One beforehand to [...]

Collaborate and Keep Your Privacy with an Intranet Solution

By using an Intranet solution such as Odysen, it’s real simple to both share content and information with others, as well as keeping privacy under your control. This done by the fact that when you set up an Intranet, or you can call it a private network, the only people that are on it are [...]

Fourteen New Examples of Using an Odysen Intranet Solution

To better display some of the different ways to use an Odysen Intranet solution, we’ve added fourteen new solution pages to the Odysen website.  These are organized in areas for business, groups and personal solutions, with each solution going through an example of the types of users to add, application examples and suggested plans for [...]

Cultural and Art Center Collaboration Tools

Involved with a cultural or art center and looking for a new way to organize and collaborate with others?  If so, here’s how you could do so using a solution from Odysen. Organizing Your Activities Using the folder layout, you can create some folders for each or your different activities, as displayed in the example [...]

Setting up Odysen to use in a Renewable Energy Organization

Have an organization focused on an aspect of the environment?   Maybe renewable energy, sustainable living, minimalism, organic foods, one usually doesn’t have to look too far or too hard to find ways to provide a little more balance from some of our less than sustainable habits. Creating Folders for Specific Topics With the flexible folder [...]