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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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