Earlier this month, fellow professional organizer Elaine Shannon wrote about the people in her neighbourhood and true to her title “Empress of Inspiration” she inspired me to write this post about the people in MY neighbourhood.
Elaine is one of the people in my organizing neighbourhood as all many other fellow members of Professional Organizers in Canada. They are a great source of information, ideas and sage business advice.
One of the people I met through POC was Janet Barclay of Organized Assistant. She was organizing at the time but she has since become a master virtual assistant. She is always available if I have a question about working on a PC (because I use a Mac). The other thing Janet is really good at is online networking. She has introduced me to several people including Audrey Prenzel.
Audrey Prenzel of Résumé Resources is an amazing resume writer. She gets people their dream jobs. The cool thing about Audrey is that she is even in my physical neighbourhood. I’m glad to have Audrey in my neighbourhood as she does understand what it takes to run a business while being married to a military member.
It was through Janet’s involvement in POC that I met Kathryn Presner of Zoonini Web Services. Kathryn has a way of explaining technical concepts in an easy to understand way. Working with Kathryn has been an amazing experience and I’ve learned LOADS of stuff. I look forward to receiving her ZooNews newsletter every month. Kathryn introduced me to Charlotte Riley of ACRiley Communications. Charlotte has the knack of turning my ramblings into well written English optimized for search engines. She’s really knowledgeable about social media too.
With all this talk about work, there is one more person in my neighbourhood that I have to mention and that is Mel Gromoff of Fallowfield Farm. She has provided me with an outlet to pursue my passion of riding and being out at the farm also keeps me up to date on developments in the equine industry.
These are just a few of the people in my neighbourhood. What about you? Who are the people in your neighbourhood?
Jacki: How did I not make the list? Hopefully I will be in your neighbourhood in March.
Loved your blog post. Will have to do one on people in my neighbourhood some time soon.
Take care fellow organizer!
You did make my list! You’re one of my wise POC peeps that I count on for ideas, solutions and sage business advice!
If you do a neighbourhood blog post, come back and leave another comment so we can all see who’s in YOUR neighbourhood!
Jacki, I am so happy to be in your neighbourhood!
I’m hoping to meet Kathryn next month at Wordcamp Toronto. Wish you would come too!
Hello Jacki…thanks for playing. I love meeting the people in your hood, interesting how the internet has allowed us to take our neighbourhood way beyond the end of the street.
Elaine aka Empress of Inspiration
It would be great to hang with you & Kathryn at Wordcamp Toronto! I’m still working on it – don’t count me out yet!
Hey you know me Elaine, I’m always up for games. Thanks for starting this one!
Hi Jacki, thank you for the kind mention and for putting me in such good company. I adore sharing tech tips with you as you pick things up so quickly – you’re a natural.
I hope very much to see both you and Janet at WordCamp Toronto in March!
Hey Jacki, what an absolute honour to be in your neighbourhood! I’m still undecided about Wordcamp Toronto, but it would be a BLAST if we could all get together there!
Take care, neighbour!
Charlotte
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