From Barren Field to Horn of Plenty, Giving Your Personal Network Some Attention

Anytime that you have something of your own, it usually goes without saying that you only get out of it what you put into it.   With that in mind, here’s a brief walk through of what it’s like going through what you could call the first season of having a personal network. The Beginning When [...]

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 [...]

Planning for a Remote Trip or Getaway, Such as Alaska…

While not necessarily a frequent occurrence, every once in awhile it’s nice to be able to get away for a bit of an extended trip.  Maybe a little longer than a few days, as well as to a place a little different than what you’re used to.  This could be your dream vacation or just [...]

Using a Private Network With a New Family Member

Whenever a new member of the family is introduced to the world, it’s like a big shiny new people magnet, drawing in all close family and friends that the child is and will continue to grow up with. As the excitement for such an event will probably be a little different from others not as [...]

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 5: Personal

With small business and freelancing activities, you’re working on projects and activities that other people can use.  With groups your involvement can be more optional, or even seasonal, being more active in winter for needing something to do, summer for regular outside events and get-togethers, or annual for larger gatherings.   With personal, these can be [...]

Happy Holidays, Some Links for Drinks and a Cheer

As the holidays are nearly on top of us, here’s a few last minute links to help bring out a little extra cheer. Gluhwein Otherwise known as Glogg or mulled wine, if not in northern Europe with access to a Gluhwein stop on any corner or in any pub, here’s a few recipes to try [...]

Viewing the Duration of Audio and Music Files

Now for any audio or music files that you’ve uploaded, you can view the duration or length of the file or song.   This can be helpful for aspiring musicians to share their latest recording within their own private network, or for students sharing lessons learned with their instructors. To view your music files with the [...]

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 [...]

10 Benefits of Having Your Own Private Network

As people are getting worn out from different social networks for this or that concern, one alternative is to go with a private network.  While a private network may have some limitations, here are ten benefits it does have, at least in respect to an Odysen private network. No Ads. This helps to put all [...]

Personal Networks Swinging from Quantity to Quality

It seems the pendulum of personal network trends, at least for what you can consider the mainstream, is starting its’ swing back from one end of quantity (how many thousands of “friends” can you get) towards another end that you could say is tending towards higher quality (or perhaps a “less is more” perspective). You [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Escape the Social Networking Tug of War. With Odysen, You Control Your Privacy.

Feeling stuck in the middle of who can provide the most personal information for their coveted advertisers to bombard you with things you don’t need?  If so, you’re probably somewhere near this race between Google and Facebook and will no doubt be feeling a little tiresome of the whole thing altogether. If you’d like to [...]

When you need Quality over Quantity, Try an Intranet

As more and more firms are racing to fill up the Internet with a focus on quantity over quality, it seems finding what you’re really looking for will only become more difficult and frustrating.  Finding the true experts in any given field takes longer, finding a half dozen or more for some real alternatives can [...]