Elaine Shannon and Kimberly Eagles don’t care for clutter. A visit to their company’s website is a testament to that: its very clean. Which is good, considering the pair are the founders of Organizing Connection, a firm that sells online videos to teach the secrets of professional home organizers — goodbye cluttered kitchens, closets and bedrooms — to the rest of us.

The work-at-home-moms have run Organizing Connection for the past two years, with Shannon based in Rothesay, N.B., and Eagles in Moncton, N.B. “The idea was to create videos that people could download to learn how to organize their homes, says Shannon. “Instead of hiring an organizer or buying a book, it’s visual learning, which was absent until we hit the market.” The company is in a growth phase now, targeting new customers and negotiating to get their videos stocked on the shelves of a major multi-national retail chain. But in getting to this point, Shannon and Eagles learned a few hard organizational lessons of their own — the most important being how to organize a launch.

They thought they had it all worked out back in 2008 when the company debuted. Shannon and Eagles had selected the National Association of Professional Organizers conference in Reno, Nev…..Read the rest of the article:

Yes, you can follow Organizing Connection, Elaine and Kim on twitter and we also have a Facebook Fan page that you can join.

The Watercooler has been all abuzz this week this is what we have heard.

January is GO(Get Organized) Month for our friends in the USA and the whole country is buzzing with activities. Here are some of the highlights for the last week of this event.

LA Organizing Awards…
It is award show season, forget the Golden Globe’s roll out the red carpet for the best of the best in the professional organizing industry. In the next few days many of our friends will be descending on one of the most amazing cites I have been to….LA. Bright lights, Rodeo Drive…a chance encounter with Simon Cowell in 2004 makes this one of my favorite places….ps…that is my reflection in Simon’s shiny Bentley…and it was not me if you are asking!

Simon Cowell on Rodeo Dr

While we are in sunny California I would like to introduce you to Josh Zerkel. I am very fond of Josh and even fonder of his love of productivity….birds of a feather stick together.If you are free on January 27th I invite you as my guest to an event that you will not want to miss.

Joshua is going to be hosting a FREE teleclass on January 27^th dedicated to showing you “The 7 Essentials for a Profitable and Productive 2010,” and he’s arranged FREE access for anyone I send along. register now!

Our Friend Josh

Now over to Georgia and the ZING list. That is Allison Carter’s vision of The Zing List.

What if there was a Craig’s List just for the organizing community?
What if we had a neighborhood market where we could all share what we are doing, creating, teaching… and you could go there to find interesting classes and books and products.

Haiti still needs our help and for our Canadians readers here is another way to give….and give …and give

Soft Moc Canada National Shoe Drive: Help Survivors of the Haitian Earthquake Disaster!

As a WAHM (work at home mom)  the watercooler is not as much fun. First of all I don’t have one and if I did I would be the only one there.

Those days are long gone but…today I feel the need to hang around the watercooler. If you were here we could chat about….

This week on Oprah

Peter Walsh and Oprah are sending families a wake up call with their Stripped Down Challenge.   Looks hard but I think our families are worth it. What do you think?

Here is a summary of the “Stripped Down” Challenge.

1.       No cell phones or texting
2.       No electronics (e-mail, computers, iPod, TV, microwave, etc)
3.       Prepare and eat healthy meals together
4.       Clean and organize the house
5.       Family must hug and say “I love you” to each other at least one a day…this is my favourite.

PS…what do you think of Oprah’s new website? It looks like a major change to facilitate the use of “Social Media”. With links to twitter, facebook, myspace and youtube to follow our favourite TV friend.

This week at Unclutterer

Whoever said organizers did not know how to lighten up and let loose have obviously not played the Clutter Game…my score of 120 is a bit embarrassing.  I think I will leave the video games for the kids…I prefer board games myself.

Over at Lifehacker

With the weekend upon us I wonder how many of you will be spending the weekend playing catch-up. How would you like to “UnClutter your workdays to free up your weekends” ?

If you have not already done so you can help our friends and family in Haiti through any one of these organizations… The Red Cross , Worldvision or Oxfam

Please stay well, be good to yourself and others and I look forward to meeting you again “At the Watercooler”.

Elaine