At the end of each month, I present a round-up of five posts that have been popular or have generated interest at My Organized Biz. 
Here are 5 for December:
Organizing Your Packaging for “Green” Products
Organizing a Studio in a Loft
Pearl Harbor Day – December 7
More Organizational Tips from a Reader
Reader’s Response to Internet Disfunction Post
Did you have a favorite post?

Organization of time, work, goals and work space often seem challenging.  Even when we have good intentions, we sometimes go astray.
From Business Know How, we have Getting Organized: 5 Secrets to Help You Get Started by Maria Garcia.  Here Maria gives you five organizational tips, but breaks them down even further for ease in getting yourself started.  This could be a good way to start the New Year in your business.
How are you organizing for the New Year?

As the hours wind down toward Christmas Day, are you stressed out trying to meet business commitments, finish orders and get deliveries made, along with family holiday plans?  Or are you well organized so that everything is running smoothly?
If you still have much to do:

Prioritize and decide what really needs to be done and in what order.
Is there anything you don’t need to do until after Christmas Day…or even the holiday season?
Can you get someone to help you with these commitments?
Is there something else you can put off that you thought you needed to accomplish?
Take a few minutes, here and there, …read more

The organization of offices and work space will vary, depending on the person, the business, and the amount of space available.  Also, what works for one person doesn’t work so well for another.
Ideally, I like an efficient office and work space with everything at my fingertips and space just for ME.  However, that  generally hasn’t been my lot since I began writing, was sewing, painting, or working at an Internet based business. 

I’ve worked in apartments, duplex homes, a larger house with room for myself, a multigenerational home with everyone vying for space.
I’ve written in motel rooms and airports when traveling.
I …read more

Jessica, who provided some organizational tips about posting from the library or Internet cafe when one’s own Internet connection is down, has some more ideas to offer.  Thanks, Jessica.
Even if you don’t have a “real” word processor, your computer probably comes with a basic text editor that can save text files on your computer ahead of time (eg: look for Notepad on windows, TextEdit on Mac). You may have to go back and do the formatting online later when you get to the library, but if you already have the body text written that can save even more time sometimes! …read more

When organizing promotions for your business, consider what group you’re focusing on or targeting.  Perhaps you have different groups.  However, your promotions generally are more effictive if you focus on a particular group at a time.  The same type of techniques might be used, but let each group know how you can fill their needs.
For instance, at Home Biz Notes, I mentioned that online shopping appeals to those with health issues.  If someone with a home or small business has items or services that interest those shoppers (and this can be a wide category).  I also wrote at Small Business Boomers, about statistics …read more

How can I get out from under this mess? you wonder, as you gaze around a cluttered office, mixed up closet, disarrayed kitchen.
Some people try to find the time to do it themselves.  Others hire a professional organizer, someone who has developed a business of organizing others…their home, office, clothing, closets and life.
Do you need someone to give suggestions but not do the physical rearranging?  Or do you want someone to do everything?
I’m not sure I’d want someone to do all my rearranging because only I know what I need to keep, what I need now, what later and then other …read more

In response to my post,  Using See-Through Containers & Holders, Jessica responded by sharing her experience with see-through bins and jars.
For a lot of things see thru bins are great, I love how even if they aren’t really
labeled, you can pretty much tell at a glance what’s in them…for things like my
origami collection, having a see thru bin inspires me to make more.
but there’s also exceptions, stuff that looks so cluttery, that even containerized you
don’t want to see it…the toolkit and cleaning supplies and whatnot, that I prefer to
keep in opaque containers.
I agree with Jessica.  There are times when see-through …read more

Frequently shelves are a great help in our organizing.  We can use them in the office for books and supplies, for containers and shelf organizers. 
They can be utilized in a work area to make the most use of wall space.  (Sometimes, rather than building shelves on a wall, we use shelving units.)
Fabric artists like to use shelves for their fabrics, often color coding them or organizing by type of material.  They also can place jars and other containers on shelves.
If you feel your shelves are too messy or can’t be arranged attractively, you might want to get units with doors …read more

Magnetic paper clip holders…these are very simple items for your desk or drawer.  Yet I find them so handy to keep the clips from scattering. 
They’re one of those items you usually don’t think of mentioning when describing desk top or desk drawer organizers.
They’re small, they’re hardly noticed, they’re not decorative.  Yet they keep the clips at one’s fingertips so you don’t have to go searching around, under and over stuff in and on your desk.
I first discovered these on teachers’ desks when I was substitute teaching and found it so handy to have paper clips readily available when I had …read more