Best Results Organizing

After a three month absence, I’m happy to report that the Paper Doll blog is rising from the ashes. I’ll pause while North America unites in an organized cheer!

As many of you have noted in your emails and social media comments, the disappearance was, indeed, abrupt. The company website OnlineOrganizing.com for which I blogged from 2007 through the first week of 2013 unexpectedly went…byebye. Vendors, bloggers and customers were brought up short by the surprise and were given no opportunity to achieve closure or access our data. Your faithful Paper Doll waited impatiently in expectation of a quick and painless resolution. Since the next scheduled post would have appeared on January 8, 2013, I think we can agree resolution was not quick. However, thanks to a brilliant web designer, I have hopes that ramping up the blog in a new way, as well as upgrading the Best Results Organizing web site, will be (mostly) painless.

The platform on which Paper Doll used to live didn’t exactly play nicely with traditional blog platforms. On the plus side, those 5+ years of posts are completely backed up and you’ll get to see them again eventually. On the downside, my backups, though pristinely organized (but, of course!) aren’t easily integrated into the new blog. What does this mean for you readers? At least for a while, fewer background references to classic posts…and a gaping hole in the time-space continuum.

That said, having the Paper Doll blog live right here on my web site is full of advantages. No more forced blogging schedules; before, posts had to go live by Tuesday mornings at 10:30, and it was almost impossible to deliver a post on the spur of the moment. It feels pretty disorganized when you can’t be nimble and responsive! So, instead of one ridiculously long post once a week, you’ll see more digestible posts, and more often.

More importantly, the new format offers freedom to blog about a wider array of organizing subjects. Paper management is still my first love, but without any constraints or edits from The Man (who was, at various times, different women), I’ll be able to share organizing advice on everything from filing systems to time management apps, organized travel to project management, children’s organizing to helping seniors. Excitingly, we’ll finally be in the 21st century, so there will be keyword tags enabling you to search for more information on your favorite topics.

Of course, all of your favorite Paper Doll guest stars, including Paper Mommy and George Clooney, who will likely be appearing with ridiculous frequency.

Best of all, this launch of Paper Doll 2.0 comes just in time for next week’s foray to New Orleans for the National Association of Professional Organizers’ Conference and Expo.

I’m thrilled to be back and talking to you about organizing again. Please pardon the dust as we work to make this a fabulous experience for you.