Comments on: Are you suffering from information overload? http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/17/are-you-suffering-from-information-overload/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charlie Curtis http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/17/are-you-suffering-from-information-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-1099481 Charlie Curtis Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:38:48 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/17/are-you-suffering-from-information-overload/#comment-1099481 In my job as a CIO, I've been working on tackling information overload with mixed results. My company, a professional services firm, suffers more than most because of a couple of infrastructure problems that arose from a couple of mergers. I've been trying to get my colleagues to acknowledge that attacking our information overload problem will improve our overall knowledge sharing collaboration efforts and also contribute to our bottom line. But some people here just don't understand the extent of the problem. I just read about information overload awarenesss day and I've signed up our company as a participant and designated site - I hope this will get my point across to my colleagues and help them understand what we can do to improve our overall position relative to information overload. For others in my position (and I'm sure there are many of you) I encourage you to do the same, Information is available at www.informationoverloadday.com In my job as a CIO, I’ve been working on tackling information overload with mixed results. My company, a professional services firm, suffers more than most because of a couple of infrastructure problems that arose from a couple of mergers.

I’ve been trying to get my colleagues to acknowledge that attacking our information overload problem will improve our overall knowledge sharing collaboration efforts and also contribute to our bottom line. But some people here just don’t understand the extent of the problem.

I just read about information overload awarenesss day and I’ve signed up our company as a participant and designated site – I hope this will get my point across to my colleagues and help them understand what we can do to improve our overall position relative to information overload. For others in my position (and I’m sure there are many of you) I encourage you to do the same, Information is available at http://www.informationoverloadday.com

]]> By: Joe Lichtenberg http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/17/are-you-suffering-from-information-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-443854 Joe Lichtenberg Mon, 05 May 2008 15:23:57 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/17/are-you-suffering-from-information-overload/#comment-443854 Actually, we just published an article in Tech News World about it: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Tools-and-Tricks-for-Information-Junkies-62644.html There are some mechanical (using aggregators, start pages, widgets, etc.) and filtering (to find the needles without having to search through the haystacks) approaches discussed in the article. Thanks. Joe. Actually, we just published an article in Tech News World about it:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Tools-and-Tricks-for-Information-Junkies-62644.html

There are some mechanical (using aggregators, start pages, widgets, etc.) and filtering (to find the needles without having to search through the haystacks) approaches discussed in the article.

Thanks.

Joe.

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