Anniversary Day 6 – Organize for Health – Webinar Give Away
Organize for Health & Nutrition: Pantry, Fridge, & Meal Planning
My next anniversary give-away is a webinar on a subject I could use right now as I get ready for summer bathing suit season.
Getting healthy and fit can be very challenging.
One way to make it easier is to have a pantry and fridge that are organized for your good health.
Organizing your pantry and fridge not only keeps them looking great, but it helps you to be able to find whatever you need in seconds. That saves you preparation time, and unnecessary trips to the store.
Join me for a webinar on organizing for health and nutrition with Registered Dietitian Pramila Duphare.
Pramila has been working in Hospitals and Nursing homes for 30 years. She has extensive background in Clinical Nutrition and has been in charge of supervising hospital/ nursing home kitchens.
You will learn:
* How to store food and use it when it is at its best so you are never in doubt if it is “still good”.
* How to buy and store the food items which are healthy for you and your family so you will have healthier meals.
* How to avoid food spoilage which leads to waste, or worse: food poisoning and sickness.
* Meal planning for the best nutritional benefits.
Organize for Health and Nutrition webinar with Clinical DietitianPramila Dupahre, MS, RD, LD
Date: Thursday May 24
Time: 8pm ET/5pm PT
One Hour – includes time for your questions
Cost: Complimentary
Anniversary Give Away – Day 5
Happy 10th Anniversary Month to Me continues with another give away today!
I’ll be giving away books donated by my friend and organizing colleague Judith Kolberg. Judith is an expert in chronic disorganization. Some would even say she coined the term when she founded the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (which has now changed names to the Institute for Challenging Disorganization).
Well Judith has kindly donated some give-aways for my birthday bash!!!
I am giving away 20 signed, first edition copies of her book Conquering Chronic Disorganization, which can be found on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and also electronic editions for Kindle and Nook. The book is a “must read” for anyone who cares about someone who struggles daily with disorganization and truly helpful for Professional Organizers who work with those folks. The book is also on the recommended resource list for the Certified Professional Organizer exam.
But alas, there is a limited number. So I will be holding a drawing on Friday at Noon ET.
If you would like to win a signed copy of the book Conquering Chronic Disorganization by Judith Kolberg, leave a happy anniversary comment on this blog post. I will pick winners at random using the Random Number Picker http://www.randomnumberpicker.com/.
I’ll also spring for the shipping costs.
Winners will be notified by email using the email address used to post your comment.
Good luck!
P.S. – Don’t forget to sign up for the Pinterest webinars for beginners and for business.
It’s the hottest site on the web right now and you don’t want to miss out on all the fun.
Anniversary Day 3 & 4
Happy 10th Anniversary to Me continues with a 2-part webinar series.
This year has brought one big change to my business and personal organization and I would like to share it because it rocks!
It is Pinterest!
As an idea collector and curator, I find that this visual archiving website is the perfect fit for my style of saving, without taking up space in my office, my house, or my head!
If you haven’t heard about it yet, Pinterest.com is a website that allows you to clip pictures and articles, upload your own, and categorize them onto virtual bulletin boards. The fun part is exploring the site and seeing what other people are “pinning” and commenting and re-pinning for yourself.
The interface is simple, but some don’t find it completely intuitive.
For that reason I’m presenting two webinars.
Get Pinteresting – Part 1 – for beginners.
Get Pinteresting – Part 2 – For business
The descriptions, dates, and other information is below.
I hope you will join me and get pinning with me!
Monday May 14, 2012
8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) for 30 minutes plus time for questions.
Cost: 0 – my gift to you!
Description:
Get on board the Pinterest train! It’s a visually exciting site that can help you to organize your ideas, inspiration, recipes, projects and much more. Find out how to get started “pinning” and join the millions who have found pinspiration!
Attendees learn how to use Pinterest features and organize information. It promises potential use for homeowners, business people, writers, crafters, cooks, researchers and hobbyists of all types.
Follow along on your computer screen as Allison carter “drives” the programs while teaching you the how to make the most of the site.
Pinterest is the hottest, fastest growing website for collecting web clippings on virtual bulletin boards. It allows users to create visual boards for any subject under the sun.
Register HERE
In Part 2 Tuesday, Find out how clever business people are using this service to store and organize ideas and share them with clients.
registration: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EE51DD81884B
Boost your Business with Pinterest & Get Pinteresting!
Description:
In Part 2, we explore what businesses are doing to get noticed and why it’s important.
We show you specific examples of good and not-so-good pinning and how to be a great pinner.
Attendees learn how to use Pinterest as a marketing vehicle for business.
Follow along on your computer screen as Allison carter shows you how to make the most of the site.
All eyes are on this virtual pin board service as it gets more and more popular.
We show you how to make it work for you.
Learn:
- How to get more traffic to your website and blogs
- How to connect with other social networks and save you work
- What people are doing on pinterest and how to make them notice your pins.
- How to be a curator and not just a broadcaster.
- How to promote more than just your product or service
- What NOT to do on Pinterest
- Why it’s important to your business to get followers
If you are new to Pinterest you will want to sign up for part 1 – Get Pinteresting for Beginners.
Tuesday May 15, 8pm ET
Cost: $20.12 for 10th anniversary Live Webinar
$10.00 for the recording only (link will be sent to all registrants to view on the web)
10th Anniversary Party
The Professional Organizer is turning 10!! Yaaay!
I’ll be having a virtual birthday bash throughout the month of May to celebrate.
This means I’m giving away classes, downloads, and holding contests with awesome gifts from organizing businesses, authors, and more!
I can’t wait to party with you!
Watch this blog each day with directions for getting your free stuff and entering contests starting on May 1, 2012.
Tell your friends because there will be several items for absolutely no cost!
Preview List:
Webinar – No-cost sign up day – Pinterest 102: I’m on Pinterest, Now What? – tips for using Pinterest for business and for organizing information so you can stop clipping articles from magazines.
Contest – Conquering Chronic Disorganization, by Judith Kolberg, 1st edition signed by the author
Ebook Downloads – Scared of Filing, Scared of Your Clutter, by Allison Carter
Audio Class Download – Organizing with Creative People, presented by Allison Carter
I’ve got more fun things coming, so watch this blog.
(If you would like to offer a product, book, or other item for my party, please contact me!)
Evernote + Pinterest Webinar is Tuesday March 6
Join me for a how-to webinar showing you step-by-step how to set up and make the most of Evernote and Pinterest.
Date: March 6, 2012
Time: 8pm – 9pm EST
Who: Hosted by NAPO Georgia Chapter
Instructor: Allison Carter, CPO®
Cost: $25
Registration: http://www.anymeeting.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EC51DB83844D
Contact: napoga@gmail.com
Description
The purpose of the webinar is to train attendees how to use Evernote and Pinterest. Both of these services are extremely popular cloud technologies right now and promise great potential use for homeowners, business people, writers, crafters, cooks, researchers and hobbyists of all types. Follow along on your computer screen as the instructor “drives” the programs while teaching you the how to make the most of these sites..
Evernote is an online service for creating notes and storing web clippings and keeping them organized. The information is stored in the cloud and syncs to your computer and is accessible from all of your devices. Evernote was recognized as an award-winning service by the attendees at the 2011 annual NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) conference.
Pinterest is the hottest, fastest growing website for collecting web clippings on virtual bulletin boards. It allows users to create visual boards for any subject under the sun. Find out how clever business people are using this service to store and organize ideas and share them with clients.
All attendees will get an invitation to join Pinterest which is still by invitation only.
Registration: http://www.anymeeting.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EC51DB83844D
• How to make the best use of these amazing organizing programs for capturing ideas and information
• Step-by-step set up of Evernote and Pinterest
• Tips and tricks from power users
• How to use Pinterest for business
• When to use Pinterest and when to use Evernote – what are the differences?
You don’t need anything special on your computer. Just watch, listen and learn the easy way.
Why You Should Be on Pinterest (Businesses)
If you haven’t heard about it yet, Pinterest is the newest, hottest, most happening, uh, social media site. I hesitate to say social because it’s up-and-coming socially speakiing. Right now it’s mostly a lot of very interesting people posting pictures of pretty cool stuff on “virtual bulletin boards”.
Imagine you’re in a room with a stack of of magazines cutting out articles and pictures and you get to put the pictures up on an unlimited number of bulletin boards on the walls around the room. You This is what Pinterest would be like if it was just you. But it’s not just you. There are now 11 Million other people out there also creating bulletin boards and “pinning” cool stuff on them… and you can look at all of their boards and they can look at yours.When they like something on your board, they can ‘like it’, ‘re-pin’ it, or comment on it, or a combo.These virtual pin boards are the reason so many visual people are drawn to the site. It’s a never-ending series of shiny objects to distract you.But it’s much more than that. When used to it’s max,it is also a place to categorize, classify, and organize your hobbies, projects, collections, and much more.
So now that you know what it is, why should you bother knowing what it is?
1. 11 million people are there today and it’s growing exponentially. That’s a lot of potential to brand you and your biz.
2. People share and re-pin things they like, a lot!! It creates instant buzz and traffic to your website. Each “pin” leads you back to the site where it came from.
3. It’s fun, so people are spending a lot of time there. The average person spends more than an hour on the site (from latest stats I saw). I personally flip through it for hours like reading a magazine while watching TV. Can you say addicted? Yes! That’s because I am the prime demographic which leads to #4.
4. Women make up more than 90% of the website users!!! If you’re business and you like to market to women, this is the place to be right now.
The learning curve is pretty easy – compared to Facebook and Twitter.
I have many tips for making the most of your business branding on Pinterest that I will share in Tuesday’s webinar – using Evernote and Pinterest to Capture Ideas and Information (and organize them too).
More information on the webinar HERE
The webinar is hosted by NAPO Georgia – (National Association of Professional Organizers, Georgia chapter)
Dreams Goals
A dream is just a dream until you give it some structure. That’s the umph! that gives you motivation to keep going even when you don’t feel like it.
The umph! I’m talking about is making the goal meaningful.
Check out this drawing from my “Color Me Organized” series.
It may help you to realize your dreams.
Dream Goal, Color Me Organized
Make your goal desirable – something you really really want
Is your goal relevant to you? Does it have meaning for you beyond the thing-ness? Is it really someone else’s dream?
Is your dream easy enough to maintain? If you have too many hoops to jump through, your dream will become a burden. Make it simple… or as simple as possible.
Is your dream attainable? I know you can do anything you set your mind to… and some things are still out of your control. You cannot just decide to win the lottery. Stick to things you CAN make happen.
Does your dream match your needs and style? It’s nice to dream about traveling around the world, but if you have a job that needs your attention, you may have to compromise for traveling sometimes to match your need to bring in income.
When you’re ready to reach for your dream life, write down your dream and the things it will take to get there.
And dream big!
– Allison
Color Me Organized is even more colorful
Coming up with ideas is difficult for so many people.
Not for us creatives!
Ideas come bubbling up all the time for me.
I had so many more activity and how-to ideas that I had to update the activity-play-book for the clutter-challenged.
I’ve uploaded the newest version on lulu.com (she said relieved – as if going through childbirth.)
Take a sneak peek here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/4653870
Here’s a page that didn’t go in the book.
It is part of the Color-Me-Organized workshop.
– Allison
Creating Books
Creative people couldn’t be living at a better time.
Our techie counterparts have made it soooo easy for us to take our ideas and make them into interesting and memorable products that can be used for ourselves, shared, and sold.
I’m talking about books. Picture books. Word books. Work books. And play books.
The internet abounds with places to put your creative works on paper.
Photography lovers have a multitude of options for creating picture books that are of artistic nature, or just a photo album for the family or to commemorate an event. I’m no photography buff, nor am I a graphic artist, but I was able to make a photo book for my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary in minutes using apple’s program straight from my iphoto library.
There are so many times these sites would be a great resource: weddings, birthdays, art portfolio, kids’ artwork keepsake book, and I recently saw someone who scanned all of her concert tickets and made a book of concert memories. (Makes me wanna scream “freebird!”) And how about a cookbook with photos? So many ideas, so little time. (a Right Brainer’s curse) And for all you bloggers, you can turn your blog posts and photos into a book on blurb as well. (see example on their site)
Just a few resources for creating photo books are:
blurb
snapfish
ophoto
flickr
bighugelabs – lots of fun products
apple – using iphoto
lulu
For the writers, there are countless websites that allow you to create anything and everything you want in book form and on some there is no cost at all besides the printing and shipping. And what I love on many is that you can print one or thousands.
I have used lulu.com myself for a workbook, tips books, and a coloring/how-to playbook for organizing. But there are so many places to go if you want a printed book of your own poetry, comic strips or any other writing.
Some options are:
lulu
iuniverse
booksurge
xlibris
Information about Publishing and Printing on Demand
http://www.publishondemand.net/
http://www.sfwa.org/BEWARE/printondemand.html
If you are planning to sell your product to the masses, be aware of new policies that Amazon.com is putting into place.
Have you made any print on demand books???
Tell us about your book and the experience!
