FREE E-Waste Recycling Event This Weekend (Bay Area)

If you have any electronic waste that you'd like to get rid of (old computers, VCRs, stereo components, and more), it's a good idea to dispose of that type of clutter responsibly. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, a local non-profit, the Montalvo Service Group (MSG), is sponsoring a free e-waste recycling event this coming weekend. More details can be found at:

http://montalvoarts.org/events/msg_ewaste/

Best,
Josh

-- Joshua Zerkel
Certified Professional Organizer ®President, National Association of Professional Organizers,San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Custom Living Solutions"...for the way you want to live"

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Are you, or someone in your network, interested in becoming a professional organizer for homes or offices?

I'm happy to announce that will we be holding a full weekend of Essentials classes – first, Becoming a Professional Organizer: The Essentials on Friday, March 27th, and then Paper Management: The Essentials on Saturday, March 28th, in downtown San Francisco. We'd love to have you join us at one or both of these fantastic seminars!

Becoming a Professional Organizer: The Essentials is a day-long interactive class providing a comprehensive, realistic, well-rounded look at what's involved in becoming a professional organizer, what it's like to work with clients, how to market yourself, and what pitfalls to avoid.

The class is scheduled for Friday, March 27th, from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown San Francisco. The fee for this class is $275, which includes continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, class handouts, and a certificate of participation.

Paper Management: The Essentials is all about tackling paper management projects with organizing clients: the different types of papers you might encounter, how to assess the situation, helping clients sort and weed, and creating paper management systems that will work for each client. If you'd like to add paper management to the list of services you offer your clients, or if you'd like to hone your paper management skills to take your work with clients to the next level, this class is for you.

The class is scheduled for Saturday, March 28th, from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown San Francisco. The fee for this class is $275, which includes continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, class handouts, and a certificate of participation.

Our classes are limited to 15 participants and are filling up quickly. As a bonus, if you sign up for both classes, you'll save $50!

For more information or to register, e-mail class@customlivingsolutions.com, call (415) 252-9779 or visit us online at http://www.essentialsclasses.com/.

-- Joshua Zerkel
Certified Professional Organizer ®President, National Association of Professional Organizers,San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Custom Living Solutions"...for the way you want to live"

Web: http://www.customlivingsolutions.com/

Email: joshua@customlivingsolutions.com

Tel: (415) 830-6345

Join my Linkedin network at http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuazerkel

Classes for new and experienced organizers: http://www.essentialsclasses.com/

Use Less Ink with the Ecofont

Virtually every home office I enter has a printer, and every printer
uses either ink or toner, which ounce for ounce is more expensive than
gasoline! Of course, printer manufacturers make a ton of money off of
ink sales, and most printers are automatically set to use the maximum
amount of ink to expedite your need to buy replacement cartridges.
There are ways to reduce the amount of ink your printer uses by
changing the settings in your printer's control panel, but what if
changing the font you print with could also save you some ink?


The design collective SPRANQ has developed a new font which they say
uses less ink, due to the fact that the font is essentially hollow -
it has an outline, and instead of the center being solid, it has
holes. These holes don't need ink, which thereby saves on the precious
liquid by a factor of 20%, according to SPRANQ.


The Ecofont is free to download and use. Learn more about it at this link:


http://www.ecofont.eu/english.html


--
Joshua Zerkel
Certified Professional Organizer (R)
President, National Association of Professional Organizers, San
Francisco Bay Area Chapter


Custom Living Solutions
"...for the way you want to live"


Web: www.customlivingsolutions.com


Email: joshua@customlivingsolutions.com


Tel (415) 830-6345 Fax (360) 364-8728

Super Handy Tool - Evernote Web Clipper

I'm a HUGE fan of Evernote, the note-taking tool that lets you collect and organize all sorts of information. I love it so much that I regularly recommend it to clients for a variety of purposes, from simple note-taking, to organizing medical records, storing collections of information, and more.

Evernote has a very handy add-on tool called the "Evernote Web Clipper" that I'm using more and more to keep track of sites I've visited or information I've found, but may not necessarily want to add as a bookmark or favorite in my web browser. The Web Clipper adds a button to your browser which lets you instantly take an entire web page and save it directly to your (free) Evernote account. One way I use is to prepare for travel. For instance, I can visit a bunch of web pages related to Las Vegas - restaurants, attractions, shows, etc. - and add them to a "Vegas, Baby" notebook in Evernote. That way, when I'm ready for my trip, all the information about my destination is in one place!

Check out the Evernote Web Clipper at http://evernote.com/about/download/#a-webclipper


-- Joshua Zerkel Certified Professional Organizer ®President, National Association of Professional Organizers,San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Custom Living Solutions"...for the way you want to live"


Web: http://www.customlivingsolutions.com/


Email: joshua@customlivingsolutions.com


Tel: (415) 830-6345


Join my Linkedin network at http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuazerkel


Classes for new and experienced organizers: http://www.essentialsclasses.com/

More Efficient Printing with HP Smart Web Printing

I try not to print things out - usually it's a waste of paper, ink, and time - but when I do, it's irksome when I try to print a web page and it comes out with wonky formatting, prints the entire page background image, or worse - the part of the page I actually want just doesn't print. If you've ever tried to select part of a web page and paste it into your word processing application of choice, you've probably found out that sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Wouldn't it be great if things just printed how you expected them to?


Well, someone at HP thought this would be great too, and now HP offers the free HP Smart Web Printing application to help ease your internet printing woes. With this little Windows app, you can select just the areas of the page you want to print, can combine multiple pages into one printable page, and remove or resize the graphics on a page to save ink. It's' kind of surprising that HP, who makes a ton of money off of ink sales, would offer a tool that can help save ink, but I'm not complaining.


Check out the HP Smart Web Printing tool at
http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/482779-0-0-225-121.html

-- Joshua Zerkel Certified Professional Organizer ®President, National Association of Professional Organizers,San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Custom Living Solutions"...for the way you want to live"

Web: http://www.customlivingsolutions.com/

Email: joshua@customlivingsolutions.com

Tel: (415) 830-6345

Join my Linkedin network at http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuazerkel

Classes for new and experienced organizers: http://www.essentialsclasses.com/