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Log off and listen up!
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 [...]
Smarten-up your out-of-office responder
Many people dread the idea of disconnecting from email while taking time off, for fear of missing critical information or emergencies that need their attention back at the office. I met Jared Goralnick, an efficiency and productivity consultant, at the inaugural IORG conference last summer in NY, and he told me about a solution he [...]
The inbox hamster wheel
Seth Godin asked this timely question on his blog: “When you’re done with your email queue, are you done? Do you spend your day responding and reacting to incoming [messages] all day… until the list is empty? … and then you’re done.“ This is a great follow-up to the discussion at IORG a few weeks [...]
Information Overload Research Group
I attended the inaugural IORG conference in New York City a couple of weeks ago. IORG – the Information Overload Research Group was founded earlier this year by a group of industry experts and research analysts to address the growing concern of continued information overload, the negative impact on worker productivity and the resulting “burn-out” [...]
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