Results tagged “information overload” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

What tricks do you use when confronted by a mountain? How do you convert it into a molehill?
Activity Streams seem to be everywhere. Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. And now we have streams coming from business process applications, like your ERP or the shop-floor monitoring tools. It changes how we should think about the streams.
Ask yourself some good questions, rather than worry about getting buried in information. This is the essential advice of Frank and Magnone's new book.
Nick Milton reminds us that "it isn't information overload when it is information you want." And I play with it a little, hoping for some artificial intelligence sooner than later.
Another take on defining problems the right way, motivated by a David Allen newsletter article.
If you or your business are trying to get more done, focus on the mechanisms for getting things done and getting them done quickly. Don't simply push more into the system.
It is my responsibility to post useful information into the world. And it is also my responsibility to decide how, when and where to consume the information that comes to me. And we should work out together how we want to do that.
Attensa have published a white paper on information overload, and I have had a conversation with them recently. Some thoughts about the worlds of KM and information overload and getting things done at work.
Mark White has published an eBook as your very own "Get Out of Jail Free" card - information jail. It's an interesting three-week program to help someone change their relationship to their own overload.
Dawn Foster at GigaOm has a nice discussion of "How to Write Better Emails." I've talked about many of these things as well, but it's nice to see this on a widely-read website.
Craig Roth: "In the information age, navigating a virtual forest of information IS your job, not the thing that prevents you from doing your job." Good stuff. Information rage is silly.
Either RSS is dead, or it isn't, depending on who you follow. Here I give some thoughts on how I'd like RSS readers to work for me, rather than doing the simple job of aggregating everything into streams.
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