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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 2: Small Businesses

You have the germ of the idea for your small business endeavor, but of course there’s always a million directions it could go, depending on all sorts of external factors, influences or distractions.   To help get a bead on them and reduce a bit of the chaos, you can load up your network with all [...]

Small Business 2012 Forecasts

As the year 2011 draws to a close, for what it’s worth, forecasts and trends for small businesses in 2012 are starting to come through, here’s a few of them. 2011 Was the “Year of the Daily Deal,” 2012 Will Be the “Year of the Empowered Merchant”, Schedulicity:  No doubt as both merchants and customers [...]

Wear Many Hats? Try an Intranet Coat Hanger to Get Organized

In case you haven’t had a chance to scroll through some the Odysen comic learning sketches, here’s the one for the escaped puppet moving on to its’ wearing too many hats adventure. Sometimes (or most times), when it feels like you just have too many different hats or roles you’re wearing, it’s nice to be [...]

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 [...]

Using Odysen for a Mentor Relationship

Occasionally in different work environments, groups, or other more personal situations you find yourself either in a place that you need to escape out of, but can’t figure out on your own, or are just in general trying to get somewhere and appreciate a little help now and then by someone maybe a little more [...]

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 [...]

Telecommuting Trends and Updates

For a variety of reasons, telecommuting is an increasing attractive option for many employees and employers.   Employees get more flexibility to juggle their busy home and work schedules, employers get reduced office space needed (or shared offices), the less driving not only saves money from gas, but also helps your vehicle last a bit longer [...]