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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New Logos for Network Subsciption Plans
Along with the earlier mentioned changes to the website, you’ll also see a new logo or symbol for each of the plans. Below is a brief summary of each, along with a short explanation of the meaning, purpose or thinking behind the image. Spark Call it your light in the night, a minimalistic fire for [...]
Start Your Fire with a Free Spark Plan!
To help users get a better feel with using an Odysen Intranet or private network solution, you can now do so with an absolutely free plan, called the Spark! Similar to the Creative plan but with a Basic user limit of 10 users and one Spark network per person, or their email address. This way, [...]
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 [...]
Editing Users Simplified for Network Administrators
For administrators of an account, editing a user has been simplified a bit by integrating the edit user functions (Show, Edit and Send Welcome Email) into just one link, under the name of the user. Here’s a screenshot of the new users layout. Once you click on a user, you get the following screen, showing [...]
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 [...]