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The internet is sustained through a continuous supply of up-to-date information through often exasperating human effort. This network, analogous to a human vascular system must be kept alive with nutrients, and a readily available supply of “Blogsxygen.”

This supply is provided by the multitude of avid bloggers and midnight-oil-burning writers.

Keeping the internet’s heart pumping takes a lot of input.

So for the general online blogger, who has no newsroom experience, what can be done to reduce the pressure to keep up to date?

The real answer to organization in the workplace is the no-clutter approach. Ever noticed that successful executives have nothing on their desks? It’s not that they have nothing to do, they are very busy people – and VERY expensive to hire, so their techniques are the best management training can buy. Another thing you may have noticed is that they are not all rocket scientists either, so what these execs do, anyone can too!

The key to good working organization is to be clutter free – not by color coding Post-It notes!

Effective organization can easily be achieved by following some simple steps

• Keep an address book either written in an A-Z book or on your computer, do not write contact info anywhere else.
• Use a written or computer-based desk diary, written is better. Do not write/ anything down that is time-sensitive anywhere else.  The diary should be the daily bible. Do not use loose inserts/post-its in the diary either.
• Maintain a system of file naming for everything you write that is not immediately published. The filenames should include the date, version and title. This makes retrieval of archives so much easier.
• If you have multiple blogs and updates that can be categorized, make multiple desktops/logins so that you can have a customized workspace relevant to each project that you are undertaking.
• If you need to be note-taking constantly, keep all the notes in one journal. If computerized, the key to selecting effective desktop organization software is to keep it simple – organizers that offer too many features are invariably counter-productive.

Most of all get rid of the irrelevant clutter in your workspace! Some people thrive under an umbrella of momentarily interesting desk toys and trendy stationery items. This often translates through to the computer desktop they work with. This haphazard approach to work is not effective. A de-clutter of all the digital desk-toys and must-have system tray items has a detrimental effect on productivity. Constant adjusting, updating and fooling around with feature-rich and function-poor software is very time-wasting. A productive workplace requires focus on relevance.  For the many that have a daily responsibility to meet a deadline, keeping both the physical and the digital desktop clear of abstract data and irrelevance is the ultimate goal.

Only once the suffocation of trivia and distraction is removed, can effective blogxygen be successful.