Welcome to the Technology issue of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! You’ll find lots of great tips here for using technology to organize today’s busy lives and for organizing your (or your clients’) technology. Be sure to read the posts and leave some comments – it’s a fun way to network with your organizing colleagues!

Site-Saving Bookmarklets: Keeping Up With Online Reading While Reducing Paper Clutter by Julie Bestry

If you’re a voracious web reader, it sometimes seems like you have only two alternatives: paper (printout) clutter or an endlessly scrolling tower of bookmarks. These nifty bookmarklets offers the chance to keep up with your reading without cluttering up your home, office or computer.

Getting Organized in the Google Era by Jeri Dansky

This book, which was published earlier this year, talks about ways to use technology effectively. Do you organize information – or just search for it when you need it?

Technology and You! by Ellen Delap

Cozy Up To Cozi by Janice Russell

TeuxDeux (To Do – an online list maker) by Margarita Ibbott

Are you a chronic list maker?  Do you feel a sense of accomplishment when you cross that item off your list? How about writing a list out electronically that you can access from any computer? Find out about a simple and easy to use on-line list maker from TeuxDeux.

Before wrapping up this month’s Carnival, I’d like to welcome Lelah Baker-Rabe as the newest Professional Organizers Blog Carnival Star Blogger, after contributing to 10 Blog Carnivals to date. In her post, Clutter-free gifts: Technology, she tells us how to

Help the tech-savvy people in your life stay clutter-free with some thoughtful gifts of technology that won’t add to their box of random cords and cables.

Congratulations, Lelah, and thank you to everyone who took part in this month’s Carnival.

Next month, our theme will be Bathroom Organizing – please submit your posts by noon EDT on October 12, 2010. In November, we’ll celebrate Food, Glorious Food! so get ready to submit your posts about organizing refrigerators, pantries, recipes, or another related topic.

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