Did you know that by 2012, the typical knowledge worker will receive hundreds of messages each day via e-mail, IM, text, and social networks?  And that knowledge workers today lose 25% of the work day due to Information Overload?

I have written about information overload and the research conducted by its namesake group on this blog a number of times. Now IORG is bringing renewed attention to this problem by declaring August 12 “Information Overload Awareness Day” and holding a half-day online event, presenting findings of their research and options to lessen the impact.

The keynote is being presented by Nathan Zeldes, the former “Information Overload Czar” at Intel and current President of the IORG.

Other speakers include:

• Noted authors Maggie Jackson (“Distracted”) and Mike Song (“The Hamster Revolution”)
• Edward Stern, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Dept. of Labor
• Mark Hurst, Creative Good and author of “Bit Literacy”
• John Hagel, co-chairman, the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation
• Seth Earley, Earley & Associates
• Anne-Katrin Neyer, School of Business and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Peter Marksteiner, Colonel, U.S. Air Force
• Paul Silverman, Integra
• Christina Randle, The Effective Edge
• Jonathan Spira, chief analyst at Basex
• Executives from a variety of companies including Dow Jones and Morgan Stanley.
• A panel of Visionary Vendors with tools that help lower Information Overload including Matt Brezina, co-founder, Xobni, Deva Hazarika, CEO, ClearContext, Julia White, director of product management, Microsoft, and Tomer Shalit, CEO, Nordic River

If you are interested in this topic (and who isn’t with the ever increasing onslaught of email, rss-feeds, twitter and social media), you can register for the event here.  Permessa is a sponsor of the event and we are able to offer a limited number of free guest passes (a $50 value).  Simply use “PermessaGuest” as the discount code on sign-up.