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Getting Organized: Previous Issues

An e-newsletter of organizing tips for faculty members. Files open up in PDF format (get Adobe Reader).

2012  ::  2011  ::  2010  ::  2009  ::  2008  ::  2007  ::  2006  ::  2005  ::  2004  ::  2003  ::  2002  ::  2001

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  • December 2011 - Reducing Complexity in Your Work; New Products; New Organizing Magazine
  • November 2011 - Happy 10th Anniversary to the Organizing E-Newsletter!; Sharpen Your Mind
  • October 2011 - Is Multi-Tasking an Addiction?, There’s An App for That
  • September 2011 - Decision Fatigue, Hoarding Scale Updated
  • July 2011 - Energy Management, How to Say No, Save Time with Evernote, iPad Apps and Tips
  • June 2011 - Seven Ways to Make Your Life Easier, Take Back Your Lunch, Outlook Tip: How to Send a Calendar via Email
  • May 2011 - Conquering Brain Clutter; Children of Hoarders; Spring Cleaning Your Digital Clutter
  • March 2011 - Organizing Modern Day Life, Spring Cleaning, App Discoveries, Resources
  • February 2011 - Get Organized Month!; Cool Products from the Organizing Expo; Dropbox; Computer Recycling Day!; Bartering with Friends

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  • December 2010 - Taking Stock for the New Year; Papers at Home; Productivity in Progress Signs (pdf); Get Organized Month in January
  • September 2010 - Protect Your Time; How to be Productive; Favorite Blackberry Shortcuts; Holiday Season is Upon Us; Cool Stuff
  • May 2010 - New Kids on the Block
  • March/April 2010 - Spring–Time to Slow Down; Sleep Bytes; Time Management and Goal-Setting with Randy Pausch; CHADD: Help for ADD/ADHD; Keeping Track of Time; Recycling Glass Vases; Personal Computer Recycling Day
  • January/February 2010 - Get Organized (GO) Activities; Clothes, Shoes and Accessories; The Buying Season; How Nerds Get It Done; Personal Computer Recycling Day

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  • November/December 2009 - Holiday Gifts; Other Helpful Tips; Got Space? It's Get Organized Month
  • October 2009 - Social Media; Do You Unitask?; What's for Dinner?; Productivity at Work and Home; Making Up Is Hard to Do; There Goes the Bride's Dress; Getting in Shape; Organizing Products; Green Shopping and Trashing
  • August 2009 - Stressed Rats in a Shriveled Brain Rut; Financial Planning Advice on the Web; Organizing Tidbits
  • July 2009 - The Joys of Going Green; Recycling Tips; Helpful Products
  • June 2009 - Reduce Your Stress; Money Management Issues; Quick Tip
  • May 2009 - NAPO Conference; Living at Warp Speed; New Stuff, New Book – Enough Already!
  • March 2009 - Are You Wasting the Recession?; Saving Money; Cool Product
  • February 2009 - Work Smarter Instead of Harder; Self-Help Dropout; Scheduled Your Vacation?
  • January 2009 - January is Get Organized Month; Go for Speed on Outlook; Organizing Your Children; Scrapbooking Organization

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  • December 2008 - The Holidays; The Economy and Money; Let's GO! Get Organized Month; An Organizer Carol
  • November 2008 - Gift Cards This Season; Feeling Like a Scrooge?
  • October 2008 - Hurricane Ike; Restocking the Pantry; Organizing with Outlook; The Holidays
  • July/Aug 2008 - The Big Move; Finding Time the Zen Way; On the Web
  • June 2008 - Being Timely; The Importance of Sleep; Organizing Summer Camp; Getting Started
  • April/May 2008 - NAPO Conference; Got Photos? Organize Them!; Cool Website
  • March 2008 - Mobile Communication Devices; Saving a Little Green; Cool Product
  • February 2008 - Matters of the Heart; Doodle: Set Up Meetings Faster; An Extra Day...; Cool Product
  • January 2008 - Hobbies; The House Fairy; Are You a Mouse Potato?; NAPO-Houston Organizing Seminar

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  • December 2007 - New Year's Resolutions; NAPO-Houston Organizing Seminar
  • November 2007 - Got Scary Clutter? Organizing Expo; E-mail-less Fridays; Consumable Gifts
  • Special Sixth Anniversary Edition 2007 - Got Scary Clutter? Organizing Expo
  • September/October 2007 - Grief and the Organizing Process; Children of Hoarders; Protected Time; Going Green
  • July/August 2007 - Sweeping Out the Clutter; Schedule a Cleanout Day
  • June 2007 - Are You Ready for Change?; The Success Principles; Taming a Collection; Blogging Your Way to Organization
  • April/May 2007 - New Organizing Products; Are You Gelling?; Going Green
  • March 2007 - The Undoable Job; From the Bookshelf
  • February 2007 - Email Your Future Self; Build a No-Fly Zone; Craft Effective Messages; Decrease Your Email Response Time
  • January 2007 - The Lowly Shoebox; Recycling Your Old Computer

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  • December 2006 - Find Your Keys; Holiday Gifts
  • November 2006 - Organizing Expo; Holiday Housecleaning
  • September 2006 - The Little Things; Organizing Expo
  • June/July 2006 - Summer Organizing Projects; Hurricane Preparedness; Learning Your Past
  • May 2006 - E-mail Management; Re-energizing Your Work & Life; Cool Products
  • April 2006 - Hoarding; Compulsive Shopping; Cool New Products; Spring Cleaning
  • March 2006 - Interruptions; Managing Paper; Tax Tip; New Book (D. Smallin)
  • January 2006 - Other People Syndrome (OPS); New Year's Resolutions

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