NAPO-NY is inviting four organizers to their November networking and chapter meeting: ”Ask The Organizer”

Questions for the panel will include:

• How did you get started in your particular focus area?

• What do you recommend a professional organizer consider when considering their future business strategies?

• What are your favorite marketing tips?

• What are some of your favorite client service tips?

• What do you do to stand out from the rest?

• Tell us some of your favorite client stories.

Panelists in attendance: Valerie G. Keane, Klara Carames, Jeanie Engelbach and myself!

Non-members: $25. Click here to register

Shortcut your way to sanity so you can close up your laptop sooner at night! In this workshop, Isabelle Dervaux will discuss information overload, focus time, managing notifications, reminders, notes, and more.

Greenwich Library Technology Center

Photo Organizing Series - Tips on Getting Your Photo Life in Order - Sharing Your Photos and Videos

Isabelle Dervaux, in conversation with Cathi Nelson, CEO of The Photo Managers, and Derek Fahsbender.

If you are like most people, you are overwhelmed with your growing collection of photos and videos, and you aren't alone.

In this session, you'll learn about additional ways to curate your photos based on who you share with, such as family, friends, social media, and the world. Plus, Isabelle will share her tips on fun projects you can do with your organized photo collection.

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What happens after you have captured the perfect moment? It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the thousands of digital photos we accumulate on our phones and computers every day. In this one hour quick-start session, you’ll learn the three most powerful secrets to organizing your pictures in Apple Photos. With these skills, you’ll streamline the organizing process and get ready to create beautiful photo albums that you can share online and in real life. 

trainingcenter@greenwichlibrary.org

Join Isabelle Dervaux and Paul Einarsen for an in-depth review of the Apple Photos software. Hosted by Steve Dotto of DottoTech.

From the company that introduced digital photo organizing to consumers, Apple Photos has grown up to become a powerful, user-friendly solution for managing your photo collection. If you use an iPhone, iCloud, and Mac, you have access to a whole photo ecosystem that can keep your pictures organized and provides easy ways to create, organize, and share new ones

Register here

Join us for an Instagram workshop with Isabelle Dervaux. Beginners learn how to connect with friends and family through Instagram. We will play with the app and get you comfortable to post your first photos. For occasional users not sure how to navigate and use the app fluidly, learn tips and tricks so posting photos will be fun, not a chore. For regular users, come to learn how to select, edit, curate your photos, use hashtags effectively, and gain more followers for your business. 

Greenwich Library

Learn the strategies, tips, and tricks Isabelle has gathered over years of organizing in Apple Photos. Come with your laptop and organize or tweak your own library to practice in real-time.

• Find the photos scattered around your computer and organize these before importing them into Photos

• Use the power of the Photos app to work efficiently with folders, albums, and smart albums • Organize photos by date, person, location, ratings, themes, and keywords—all at once

• Rescue the important albums out of the pesky “iPhotos albums”

• Separate important family photos from the rest by using strategic one-touch keywords • Demystify and start using the “Memories” feature

• Master the most useful editing tricks you’ll need for maximum return

• Export photos from the Photos app—the right way

• Master the essential shortcuts that will save you hours of organizing time • Learn about the selected new features in iOS13 and Catalina

The Photos Managers Virtual Summit

Family photo curator and organizer Isabelle Dervaux will share her three most powerful secrets to tackling the photo clutter from iPhones and Macs. She'll also show how to find photos instantly, make albums with almost no effort, and learn an easy way to decide which images to keep and which to let go.

NAPO-NY

Now that you have learned how to declutter your family photo collection, we will eliminate the root problem of digital photo overwhelm: snapping too fast and creating a huge amount of photos, hoping that at least one of the hundreds taken will work out. Come and learn tips and tricks to use your iPhone mindfully and take your photos to the next level.

You’ll learn to:

• Plan ahead what you want to capture

• Look at the world with the eye of a photographer

• Edit quickly on the go

• And most of all, enjoy the moment!

Park Slope Coop

We accumulate thousands of photos every year on our smartphones, and digital photo collections can span over 15 years with numbers averaging from 10,000 to 100,000 photos and videos. Learn how to organize and curate the chaos in Apple Photos and add professional photo organizing to the list of skills you can bring to your clients.

Gain a deeper understanding of the Apple ecosystem including iCloud.

• Take full advantage of the hidden but powerful features of Apple Photos.

• Work faster and more productively with Mac shortcuts. (Cheat sheet provided)

• Pass on newly acquired knowledge to clients and help them organize their photo collections

FT Worth, TX

Parents feel so guilty when they can’t get their photo act together. They snap, snap, snap and realize, after a few years, that they have accumulated thousands of photos but that they can’t find the best ones to share or to pass on to the next generation. Let’s explore how they got there and what to do about it. I will share the techniques I use with parents so you can inspire them, support them, and keep them motivated to do the work themselves (or maintain the order you created for them).

• Understand the “why” behind the mess.

• What moms and dads really want out of their family photos.

• How to ask the right questions as an organizer and as a coach.

• Identify the three blocks that keep parents stuck: lack of time, fear of technology, perfectionism.

• How to understand and work with their personality to get the results they want.

Albuquerque, NM

In this workshop, we’ll take a holistic look at your photo collection to understand “What catches my eye? What inspires me? What drives me to take that photo?” 

Once we understand your creative process, we’ll create a tailored system to make your camera roll a source of joy and inspiration. Then, we’ll cover some quick and dirty tricks to shed the pictures that just don’t cut it. 

Here’s what you’ll learn: 

• A simple way to curate your collection (good-bye forgettable attempts and useless screenshots). 

• The key to finding specific photos quickly (no more endless scrolling through your camera roll).

• My technique to separate your personal and work photos (and any other categories as well).

• How good it feels now that you’ve freed up space on your devices, and more mental space and clarity too!

Creative Mornings - Field Trips

Even if you’re comfortable with your Mac, many shortcuts can save you time and energy when organizing photos. In this workshop, you’ll learn tips, tricks, and strategies to power through thousands of images quickly and efficiently. Come with your laptop to practice in real-time. You’ll leave with a handy cheat sheet and a wealth of strategies to help you organize your pictures faster with the Photos app.

Learning objectives:

• Familiarize yourself with all the modifier keys

• Practice the best keyboard shortcuts

• Discover the one-touch solution to keyword photos

Fairfield Main Library, Rotary Room, CT

This is a follow-up to last season’s very popular Basics of Photo Organizing. This time the emphasis will be on working with your digital photo collections. Most people have hundreds or even thousands of digital pictures on their phones and devices. Isabelle will show us how to curate, condense and edit them so they are easy to locate, appreciate and share. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of ever-changing technology and the inspiration to achieve their photo-organization goals.  Methods and services that are available for storing digital images will be discussed.

Fairfield Library

National Association of Personal Organizers, Connecticut, (NAPO-CT)
Eli’s on Whitney, 2392 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT. (203-287-1101)

Non-members of NAPO-CT are welcome to attend our meetings as a guest.
The guest fee is $25.00 per meeting. Please RSVP

• Does your Linkedin profile photo reflect the image you want to project?

• Do you agonize choosing between two similar photos?

• Are you struggling with your before & after photos?

• Are you disappointed with your smartphone photos?

• Are your professional and reference/research photos mixed in with family photos?

In this one hour presentation, Isabelle will show you how to use photography to show yourself in the best light and attract the clients you want.

The Transition Network
West 83rd Street Ministry Center
New York, NY

Smartphones are becoming more and more sophisticated, but who has the time to learn all their new features? Isabelle Dervaux, professional photo organizer, will show you tips on getting the most out of your smartphone camera and understanding what's new and useful. Isabelle has reviewed thousands of her clients’ smartphone photos and from this process has developed a workshop presentation that will address such questions as:

    •    How can I improve my smartphone photos?

    •    Why do I end up with so many burst images?

    •    Live photos, what’s that?

    •    Why are my photos so grainy?

    •    Why are my photo prints so disappointing?

    •    What the heck is HDR?

Isabelle will also discuss how to mindfully observe the world around you and patiently take photos you will love instead of just aiming and hoping that the more you shoot, the better the photo. She will go over the basics of light and composition so you can get better pictures that you can post with confidence and share them with pride.

Register and pay in advance (by credit card) at the TTN website. 

Greenwich Library Training Center
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
Free

What happens after you have captured the perfect moment? It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the thousands of digital photos we accumulate on our phones and computers. How do you begin to search for that one great photo of your friend's party three years ago?

In this one hour quick-start session, you’ll learn the three most powerful secrets to organizing your pictures in Apple Photos. With these skills, you’ll streamline the organizing process and get ready to create beautiful photo albums that you can share online and in real life.

Registration is strongly recommended.