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?

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