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Organized Assistant » Professional Organizers Blog Carnival http://organizedassistant.com Virtual Partner to Your Organizing Business Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for January 2012: Organizing and Health http://organizedassistant.com/2012/01/10/professional-organizers-blog-carnival-for-january-2012-organizing-and-health/ http://organizedassistant.com/2012/01/10/professional-organizers-blog-carnival-for-january-2012-organizing-and-health/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:16:35 +0000 Janet http://organizedassistant.com/?p=3024

At the start of the new year, many people focus on developing a healthier lifestyle. Like most goals, staying healthy is much easier when you are organized, so our first Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for 2012 is all about Organizing and Health. You’ll find lots of practical tips here to use in your own life [...]

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As usual, I’d like to start things off by introducing our latest Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger. With her post, Family, Friends, Nature & Clutter, Linda Samuels has now participated in 10 Blog Carnivals. I’d also like to recognize Ellen Delap as the first person to have participated in 25 Blog Carnivals! With her post, Organizing and Exercise, Ellen is our very first Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Superstar Blogger! Congratulations, Linda and Ellen! Joining us for the first time this month is Moreen Torpy with Organizing for Your Health. Welcome, Moreen! And there’s lots more great information for you here: Hazel Thornton - Organizing to De-Stress a Major Illness Lelah Baker-Rabe - Keeping ahead of your health Natalie Conrad - Gather Your Medical Information Leslie Josel - Students and Stress: Organized is the Way Julie Bestry - Vital Signs: Organizing For A Medical Emergency, Part 1 Jeri Dansky - Pillboxes with a Dose of Cute Sue West - Organize for Dr.’s Appointments: 6 Tips Linda Vanderkolk - Organized for Healthy Living - 3 Tricks Clare Kumar - How to be healthy, happy and productive at work Tracy Hoth - Is Your Closet Affecting Your Health? Janine Adams - Just do something Heather Burke - Tuesday Tip – Organizing Your Medications and Supplements Lauren Giammarco Silveira - Your Health and Your Home Connected I hope you’ll take some time to read the posts, leave some comments, and get to know the bloggers! It’s a great way to grow your network and pick up some great advice at the same time. Be sure to join us next month when our topic is Organizing for Pets. The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 13.

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Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for December 2011: 2011 Conference Highlights

In December, many of us take time to reflect on our activities over the past year. Since professional conferences often stand out as some of the best parts of the year, this month I invited my readers to share the highlights of the events which they attended. We’ll kick off this month’s Blog Carnival with [...]

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In December, many of us take time to reflect on our activities over the past year. Since professional conferences often stand out as some of the best parts of the year, this month I invited my readers to share the highlights of the events which they attended. Janet Barclay with Donna Campbell and Karen Sencich at the 2011 POC Conference

Janet Barclay with Donna Campbell and Karen Sencich at the 2011 POC Conference

We’ll kick off this month’s Blog Carnival with posts about the Professional Organizers in Canada Conference, not because I attended myself, but because I want to welcome our newest participant, Linda Vanderkolk who blogged about Organizing For A Conference, and to congratulate our newest Star Blogger, Jane Veldhoven, who blogged about Key Areas of Your Business. The most blogged about conference was that put on by the Institute for Challenging Disorganization. Submissions included: Linda Samuels - Vibrancy & Success Ellen Delap - Institute for Challenging Disorganization and Motivational Interviewing Angela Esnouf - Why I flew half way around the world as well as Leslie Josel - The Power of Connection at Conference, whose post encompassed both the ICD and NAPO Conferences. Also blogging about the NAPO Conference were: Lelah Baker-Rabe - NAPO Conference Recap 2011 Julie Bestry - Rock Stars, Heartthrobs, Brainiacs and Organizing Innovators: NAPO 2011 In a Nutshell One participant chose to blog about another conference, not specific to the organizing industry: Tracy Hoth - SuccessPlus 2011 Event As always, I encourage you to read the above posts as you reminisce about the conference(s) you attended and learn what you missed at those you did not. Please leave a note to let us know what conferences you attended this year! This is the last Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for 2011, but we’ve got a full slate of new topics lined up for next year. Be sure to mark your calendar so you don’t miss a single one!

]]> http://organizedassistant.com/2011/12/13/professional-organizers-blog-carnival-for-december-2011-2011-conference-highlights/feed/ 2 Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for November 2011: Clutter http://organizedassistant.com/2011/11/08/professional-organizers-blog-carnival-for-november-2011-clutter/ http://organizedassistant.com/2011/11/08/professional-organizers-blog-carnival-for-november-2011-clutter/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:24:47 +0000 Janet http://organizedassistant.com/?p=2882

Welcome to the Clutter issue of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! Nearly all organizers are experts in some aspect of clutter, so it’s no surprise that this is our biggest Carnival to date. Make yourself comfortable because there are a lot of new colleagues for you to meet! Clare Kumar became a Professional Organizers Blog [...]

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Clare Kumar became a Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger this month with her post, Clear Clothing Clutter and Help Charities. Please join me in congratulating Clare, and remember that you too can become a Star Blogger by participating in 10 or more editions of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival. Participating for the first time this month are MaryJo Monroe with It's party time! 8 ways to get rid of clutter by hosting a party, Lurlene Anderson with Organizing Just For YOU!, Sheri Bruneau with What Type of Clutter Do You Have? and Deanne Kelleher with An Exit Strategy for Clutter. It’s great to have you on board! Don’t go away just yet, because there are lots more great blog posts for you to read! Always remember that engaging with other bloggers by following them on Twitter and commenting on their blogs is a good way to grow your network and drive traffic to your own blog. Nancy Borg - The Origin of Clutter and the Simple Steps to Conquer it Hazel Thornton - Is it Clutter? Jacquie Ross - 10 Tips for Busy Moms on How to Keep a Clutter-Free Home Deb Lee - Armadillos Are Dangerous and Ugly, Just Like Clutter Jonda Beattie - Homeless Items In Your Home Ellen Delap - Clutter: A Hoarder's Success Story Lelah Baker-Rabe - Common clutter areas and what to do about them Janice Russell - What Does Your Clutter Weigh? Janine Adams - Standards of Clutter Leslie Josel - Clutter: Clean and Clear Elaine Shannon - Clutter = Stuck Energy Ramona Creel - Is Your Life Too Cluttered? Linda Samuels - Releasing Mind Clutter Natalie Conrad - Do You Have Time Clutter? Lisa Montanaro - What is Clutter? Julie Bestry - Paper Manners Matter: Cut Card Clutter & Store Social Stationery Shelley Molitor - Find New Meaning in the Clutter Sue West - Do Your Surroundings Become You? Audrey Cupo - Five Rules to Follow to Eliminate the Clutter Rivka Caroline - Clutter is just a pile of delayed decision making Lauren Giammarco - Control that Clutter! Tracy Hoth - What to Keep? What to Purge? I don’t know about you, but I’m having this incredible urge to declutter all of a sudden! :) The December Professional Organizers Blog Carnival will be about 2011 Conference Highlights. Whether you were at the POC Conference this past weekend, NAPO, ICD, MARCPO, Orvention, or any other conference this year, we’d love to read about it! You have until noon EST on December 12 to submit your post.

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Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for October 2011: Organizing Tips for Creative Types

Welcome to this month’s issue of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! You’ll find some great ideas here to try if you’re a right-brained, creative individual, or you work with clients who are. Debbie Stanley is a new participant this month, so please welcome her by reading her post, Gorgeous Disorder. Returning this month, we have: [...]

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Debbie Stanley is a new participant this month, so please welcome her by reading her post, Gorgeous Disorder. Returning this month, we have: Nancy Borg - Getting To Know The Master Organizer: Your Two-sided Brain Ellen Delap - Organizing and Creativity Linda Samuels - The 25-Hour Day Julie Bestry - Organizing With Post-it® Notes: Revenge of the Floozies Janice Russell - Get Unpuzzled about Organizing Rivka Caroline - Organizing Tips For Creative Types Audrey Cupo - Organize Those Crafts! Geralin Thomas - Organizing a Creative Caricature Artist As always, I encourage you to take time to read all of the posts, leave comments, and get to know your colleagues. Next month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival will be all about Clutter, and you’re welcome to submit your post any time from now up until noon EST on Monday, November 7.

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Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for September 2011: Organizing Home Libraries

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I think you can learn a lot about a person from seeing what books they read, which ones they choose to keep, and how they organize their personal library. This month, I’ve asked professional organizers to share their own strategies for organizing home libraries. Visit their blogs to find out what they said, leave a comment or two, and share your favorite posts with your social networks. Then, be sure to read through to the end of this post for a special invitation! home library

For the first time in many months, we have no new participants or new Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Bloggers to introduce, so without further ado, here are this month’s submissions! Audrey Cupo - Take A Look At Your Books - Are They Organized? Barbara Tako - Organize your books! A home library? Yes! Jeri Dansky - Books: Weeding the Collection Janice Russell - So Many Books, So Little Time! Julie Bestry - Book 'em, Danno! Organizing Your Beloved Books Ellen Delap - Organizing Your Library Tracy Hoth - Tracy's Tip ~ When Organizing Books...Think Outside the Book Rivka Caroline - It's What You Do After You Buy The Book That Counts Jane Veldhoven - Are Your Books Excess Clutter or Beautiful Possessions? Natalie Conrad - Books - Organizing Our Personal Libraries I’m a book lover myself (you can connect with me on Goodreads if you like) so I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the different ideas. I was surprised and maybe even a little disappointed that hardly anyone included a photo in their post, so I created a photo album on Facebook called Organizing Home Libraries, and I’m inviting you to upload your pictures there – whether or not you participated in the Blog Carnival. Once you’ve done that, you can start thinking about next month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival, when our topic will be Organizing Tips for Creative Types. Submissions will be accepted from now until midnight Eastern time on Monday, October 10^th.

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Welcome to the Life Balance edition of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! I enjoy reading all the submissions I receive every month, but this time I personally gained something from every single post, and I'm truly thankful to be connected to so many insightful organizers. Grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and find out what [...]

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I'm delighted to begin by introducing two new participants this month: Rivka Caroline - Life-Balance. What Fruity Sugar Stars taught me Hazel Thornton - Life is Like a Bicycle And welcome back to our returning bloggers: Lisa Montanaro - Passion Management: A New Way of Getting Things Done Barbara Tako - Life Balance: It isn't all about the clutter either Lauren Giammarco - Finding Your Balance and Why Rainy Days Never Get Me Down Natalie Conrad - Staying Organized is a Balancing Act Elaine Shannon - Organization is the Foundation of all Growth Ramona Creel - A Lesson From Erma Bombeck Audrey Cupo - The Balancing Act Jane Veldhoven - What Does Your Balanced Life Look Like? Angela Esnouf - One grey elephant balancing Tracy Hoth - Life Balance - It Is All About Playground Equipment Deb Lee - Put “Me” Time on Your Calendar Jeri Dansky - Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much Stephanie LH Calahan - Do You Want a Balanced Life? He Was Not So Sure... What do you think? Linda Samuels - Words of Our Lives Ellen Delap - Work Life Balance Nancy Borg - 2 Power Tools You Need to Help Manage the Stress of a Busy Day Clare Kumar - Choices, choices, choices - Blessing or burden? Jonda Beattie - Priorities Michelle Panzlaff - To do or not to do, that is the question As you visit the various blogs, don’t forget to grow your professional network by leaving comments and/or following the other bloggers on Twitter. We are now accepting submissions for next month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival, when our topic will be Organizing Home Libraries. The submission deadline is Monday, September 13. In the meantime, please tell us YOUR definition of Life Balance in the Comments section below.

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It's summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere, and many of us would rather lounge on the beach or around the pool than work. But, as all professional organizers know, organizing is fun too, and that's what this month's Professional Organizers Blog Carnival is all about. Read on and find out what "fun" means to all [...]

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Please join me in welcoming our two newest participants: Kate Brown - The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Alys Milner - Organizing Fido and Fluffy And, our returning bloggers: Deb Lee - When Plasticware Attacks Elaine Shannon - How do Entrepreneurs take a Vacation Ellen Delap - In every job there must be done, there is an element of fun! Jane Woolsey - Spring Clearing Challenge Julie Bestry - Paper Doll Cleans Out Her Backpack: Foreign Studies Edition Lisa Montanaro - Want to Get Organized? Take a Page Out of Harry Potter! Nancy Borg - The Secret to the Perfectly Organized Pack That You Will Never Forget Jane Veldhoven - Another Filing Masterpiece! Linda Samuels - The Win Win of Motivation & Fun Angela Esnouf - Turn Organising into Fun Have FUN reading their posts, and be sure to leave a comment introducing yourself. We are now accepting submissions for next month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival, when our topic will be Life Balance. In the meantime, please answer this question: What is the most fun part of organizing for you?

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! Reading this month's submissions gave me a strong urge to pull out my own treasure box and enjoy a stroll down memory lane, and I just can't seem to get Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories out of my head. I'm happy to announce that [...]

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I'm happy to announce that Deb Lee has become our newest Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger with her post Multimedia Mayhem: Get Control of Your Music, Videos, and Photos. Congratulations, Deb! Please take a moment to read Deb's post, as well as the other great submissions we received this month, which are listed below. You're sure to find some inspiration for helping your clients organize their precious keepsakes, and maybe even your own! Hellen Buttigieg - Tackle Your Keepsakes: How to Organize & Preserve Your Mementos Geralin Thomas - Four Steps to Organizing Your Photos Ellen Delap - Is It Valuable? Personal Notes on Organizing Your Memorabilia Jeri Dansky - One Person's Story: Keeping the Memory of Our Loved Ones Alive Ramona Creel - Are You A Collector? Lisa Montanaro - What’s In Your Memory Box? Creating an Organized Home for Your Prized Possessions Lauren Giammarco - Organizing Our Photos From Years Passed Tracy Hoth - Got Kids? Got Memorabilia! Krista Colvin - Smashing Souvenirs! Sue West - Organizing Memorabilia Laura Wittmann - Organizing Keepsakes with Memory Binders & Totes We're now accepting submissions for next month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival, when our topic will be The Fun Side of Organizing. That's a pretty broad topic, so let's see what you can do with it! The deadline is Monday, July 12. In the meantime, please answer this question: When it comes to your own personal mementos, is it difficult for you to follow the advice that you give to your clients?

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Continuing from yesterday's post about planning a move, packing, and coping with the stress of moving, today we continue this month's Professional Organizers Blog Carnival with posts about decluttering before a move, preparing a house for sale, and unpacking in the new home. We'll kick off Part 2 of the Carnival by introducing three more [...]

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We'll kick off Part 2 of the Carnival by introducing three more new participants: Nancy Borg - Project Walk-Thru: Assessing the Move Leslie Josel - The Anatomy of a Virtual Move Natalie Conrad - Organizing Your Kitchen (as you move in) Returning this month, we have: Hellen Buttigieg - 7 Steps to Successfully De-cluttering For a Move Jeri Dansky - One Person's Story: Moving and Decluttering Ramona Creel - Lightening The Load Audrey Cupo - BEFORE YOU MOVE... Pauline Wiles - Moving? 3 Ways Your Clutter Costs You Sue West - Letting Go Questions (You may not have tried before today.) Kimberly Eagles - Getting Organized to Sell Your House And last, but certainly not least, I'm thrilled to introduce our newest Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger: Jacki Hollywood Brown - Moving in 2011 You too can be a Star – just participate in 10 Professional Organizers Blog Carnivals! We're now accepting submissions for next month, when our topic will be Organizing Memorabilia. Click here to submit your post or to explore our upcoming topics.

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! Because this is such a popular time of year for people to move, I asked our readers to send in their related blog posts to create an awesome collection of tips for an organized move. Please check them out, leave some comments, and share [...]

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This was such a popular topic that I've decided to split it over two days. Today we'll begin with a list of blog posts about planning a move, packing, and coping with the stress of moving. I'd like to start by welcoming four bloggers who are participating for the first time this month: Lauren Giammarco - On the Move? Get Started on the Right Foot! Jonda Beattie - Moving Tips Laura - A Moving Tip that Made Life So Much Easier Oksana Bellas - How To Survive Your Next Move And returning this month, we have: Geralin Thomas - Tips on Moving with Kids (by guest blogger Helena Alkhas) Clare Kumar - Avoiding Moving Madness - 5 Tips to Address the Stress Lelah Baker-Rabe - Travel digest and moving: stage four Ellen Delap - Moving Day Deb Lee - NASA Can Help You Prepare for a Move Linda Samuels - The "Oh, My!" in Letting Go Master Cruz - 5 Tips in Organizing a Move Be sure to come back tomorrow for tips about decluttering, staging, and moving in – and to meet our newest Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger!

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