Photos organizing for Moms

A friend wrote me and asked for suggestions about organizing photos of the kids. She is a new Mac user and a mother of two. Macs come with iPhoto, which you probably already know. It is quite easy to hook your camera up directly to the Mac and upload your pictures automatically to iPhoto, which organizes them by date and gives you a chance to title groups of pictures as you go. There is some very simple organizing it offers that can help you keep track. This electronic storage then serves as "negatives" of your pictures.

My biggest tip is this: delete a lot! It is sooooo easy to take digital pictures, we tend to take ten times as many pictures as we did with ol' fashioned film cameras. So...Delete, delete, delete. Only keep the really great pictures or you will soon have hundreds or even thousands of pictures saved.

Many of moms also have lots of album projects they are trying to get to. My advice is to start with the most RECENT. Don't try and go back ten years and make all those yearly albums you never got around to. Make the one that you can relate to NOW. You will have more enthusiasm for it. You will have a task you can start and finish. You wont get bogged down in the tedium of going backwards which can just be overwhelming. Do what is current and perhaps at some time, you will get to the older projects.

Put all the rest of those printed pictures in a nice photo storage box, well labeled. Insert the label cards with the years, so you can quickly go back to specific years or seasons, if you choose to do a project at some later time. But for now, just put those away.

If your pictures are not printed but only stored on the computer, archive them by saving them to discs or flash drives and storing them safely away, again, well labeled.

The main thing is don't go backwards, go forward! And enjoy.

I will be in Los Angeles in June!

As many of you know, I recently relocated to sunny and rainy Northern California, where I have been pursuing my Masters Degree in Organization Development at Sonoma State University.

I am making regular trips down to Los Angeles, however, to keep up with my organizing work with clients. Please let me know if you are interested in some work this June when I'm there!

Welcome to my new website!

Talia Eisen is an entrepreneur who has worked as a professional organizer for more than ten years. She has her own business, Clarity Professional Organizing, with clients in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, Colorado and the Bay Area. Her organizing has spanned everything from individual, one-on-one coaching, to working with large corporations on systemic redesigns. She has also specialized in helping other entrepreneurs start their businesses.

The experience of working closely with people who desire change in their lives inspired Talia’s interest in Organization Development. With her background in the creative arts (She holds a BFA from University of Southern California), and her 17 years experience working in corporations and for herself, Talia has a broad perspective on the needs of businesses and individuals within those systems. Talia has strong interpersonal skills and leadership experience, which she looks forward to bringing into her consulting work.