What is information overload ? 10 ways to improve your motivation and make running a business feel like a holiday | Entrepreneurs' Business Academy Blog “We are what we repeatedly do.” - Aristotle It is an interesting fact that most people spend longer planning a two-week holiday than they do planning their workload during the other fifty weeks of the working year. Why is that? That sounds a lot like running a successful business. Whatever led you to your business idea, your chances of success will increase many times over if you make optimum use of every minute in your day; if you have genuine belief in your idea and a passion for your business plan. The important thing is to know what you want, why you want it and to make sure that every day your actions and behaviours take you closer to your true objective – and are aligned with what matters to you the most. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. If you put as much energy into running your business for 50 weeks of the year as you do enjoying your 2 week break, your annual accounts will be more fun to read than a holiday postcard. Content adapted from “Do It!
Information Overload?: Northwestern University News EVANSTON, Ill. --- “Information overload” may be an exaggerated way to describe today’s always-on media environment. Actually, very few Americans seem to feel bogged down or overwhelmed by the volume of news and information at their fingertips and on their screens, according to a new Northwestern University study. The study was published in the journal The Information Society. “Little research has focused on information overload and media consumption, yet it’s a concept used in public discussions to describe today’s 24/7 media environment,” said Eszter Hargittai, an associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern and lead author of the study. Most of the previous literature on information overload dynamics has involved fighter pilots or battlefield commanders. To better understand how everyday Americans perceive the amount of information available through traditional and new media, researchers recruited vacationers in Las Vegas to participate in focus groups.
20 Apps to Organize Your Thoughts I always did like those posts that list a bunch of apps and tools I’d never heard of. I’ve found some really great apps that way. But no one’s ever bothered to offer us one of those “check these out!” posts – until today. Please welcome today’s guest poster, James Adams, and his collection of apps to organize thoughts. (We could all use more of that, eh!) Everyone these days is busy. The Internet is home to many tools that will assist you in saving your favorite websites, keeping track of your appointments, making mind maps, taking notes and creating notes to keep you on track. 1. Our friends at Google have developed this application to assist you in collecting notes and information from the Internet. 2. This tool is ideal if you find yourself too occupied with something to take notes. 3. This helpful application is a management tool that allows you to store and access your content from anywhere. 4. 5. 6. 7. This is a desktop note-taking app for Linux and Unix users. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
This column will change your life: information overload There's a new add-on for Gmail called Inbox Pause, which does something utterly simple – it adds a pause button to your inbox – but represents, I think, a new phase in our long war against information overload. Consider the absurdity. Inbox Pause doesn't reduce the quantity of emails that bombard you. Nor does it help you answer them faster. In any case, there's already a perfectly good way to "pause" your email: just don't check your damn email for a few hours. Or just resist the temptation to open new ones. I've been using it for several weeks now, and I love it. Forty years after Alvin Toffler popularised the term "information overload", we might as well admit this: our efforts to fight it have failed. When Google launched Priority Inbox, which sifts email into "important" and "everything else", I was sceptical: prioritisation systems mainly involve pointlessly reordering your to-do list. oliver.burkeman@guardian.co.uk
Organised Thoughts Digital Information Overload Overwhelms and Distracts Students Is technology distracting to students? Image by Justin Crann The most recent nationally-representative surveys of the Pew Internet Project found that 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones. These results emphasize the considerable amount of activity teens invest in surfing the Internet, using social networking and accessing their mobile devices. Are there any academic benefits from this surge in activity? Is technology improving our student’s study habits or research skills? This study is particularly interesting because included in the 2,462 middle and high school teachers canvassed were 1,750 Advanced Placement teachers – those who teach the best students in America. Information Search However, 83% agree that the amount of information available online today is overwhelming to most students, and 76% “strongly agree” that internet search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily.
Information Overload is Not Just Filter Failure Craig Roth Managing Vice President: Communication, Collaboration, and Content 4 years at Gartner 25 years IT industry Craig Roth is a vice president and service director for Gartner Research, in Burton Group's Collaboration and Content Strategies service. Mr. Coverage Areas: by Craig Roth | July 11, 2012 | 3 Comments A while ago Clay Shirkey asserted that there is no information overload, just filter failure. I describe enterprise attention management as consisting of two mechanisms: pulling forward and pushing back. But I think a more serious problem is the information that’s just sitting out there, not calling for your attention, but that you should notice. Consider walking in to a library trying to find the page where someone said “Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.” Category: Attention Management Tags:
Understanding Information Overload :: Infogineering - Master Your Information Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Those that learn to deal with it effectively will have a major advantage in the next few years. Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions. The result is either that you either delay making decisions, or that you make the wrong decisions. It is now commonplace to be getting too many e-mails, reports and incoming messages to deal with them effectively. The Information Overload Age The first recorded use of the phrase “information overload” was used by the futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970, when he predicted that the rapidly increasing amounts of information being produced would eventually cause people problems. Although people talk about “living in the information age,” written information has been used for thousands of years. Not “Sensory Overload” Causes How the Problem Spreads Solutions These include:
12 conseils pour éviter de s’écrouler sous les flux d’informations Depuis quelques temps, la problématique de l’infobésité ou la surinformation devient de plus en plus récurrente, et on se retrouve avec certaines figures crier ‘Heeeeeeelp’ Comment faire alors qu’on on devient esclave de son lecteur de flux, quand on reçoit chaque jour plus de 500 articles et news, quand on n’arrive plus à gérer ses mails, ses blogs, ses flux et ses twits ??!! On fait appel à une solution technologique, une application logicielle ? Je ne crois pas que ça soit la bonne solution ! Il s’agit plutôt à mon avis d’une solution méthodologique, liée à l’usage et à ce qu’on peut appeler : « diététique informationnelle ». Voici donc quelques conseils pratiques pour mieux gérer ses flux informationnels : 1-Nommez vos dossiers et fils RSS en commençant par 01, 02, 03…pour pouvoir identifier plus facilement les dossiers qui vous intéressent le plus ! 01-Veille et IE 02-Recherche d’informations ou encore 001-Urgent 002-Important Articles similaires:
12 outils pour mieux gérer l'infobésité des médias sociaux 2 avril 2012 L’infobésité, traduction de l’expression anglaise « information overload » est très certainement l’effet secondaire le moins agréable qui découle de l’avènement des médias sociaux. Déjà en 2007, selon emarketer, les gestionnaires peinaient à trouver l’information pertinente au sujet de leur propre compagnie ou de la compétition, sans parler des courriels qui ne cessent de croitre avec quantité de gens qui nous mettent en copie conforme (c.c.), les infolettres auxquelles on s’abonne, etc. Avec la montée en puissance de Facebook, des blogues, de Twitter, de LinkedIn, de Pinterest ou de Google+, comment fait-on pour gérer tous nos comptes, personnels ou d’affaires? Comment s’y retrouver dans la jungle d’information disponible et surtout, comment parvient-on à séparer le bon grain de l’ivraie? Infographie de Brian Solis et Jess3 sur l’univers de Twitter et les applications périphériques qui l’enrichissent. Les aggrégateurs de comptes – Hootsuite – Tweetdeck – Seesmic – Sprout Social
Tools : how to deal with information overload A new phenomenon ? #Lift12 : Notre surcharge informationnelle en perspective Une passionnante lecture de Xavier de la Porte nous a récemment présenté Anaïs Saint-Jude (@anaisaintjude), fondatrice et responsable du programme BiblioTech de la bibliothèque de Stanford. Elle était sur la scène de Lift 2012 pour mettre en perspective la question de la surcharge informationnelle, l’un des maux qu’on attribue aux nouvelles technologies. Mais est-ce si sûr ? Anaïs Saint-Jude, dans sa présentation intitulée de Gutenberg à Zuckerberg, a commencé par faire référence à L’homme sans qualité de l’écrivain autrichien Robert Musil. Image : Anaïs Saint-Jude sur la scène de Lift, photographiée par Ivo Näpflin pour LiftConference. La bibliothèque du Congrès possède 34,5 millions de livres. La surcharge informationnelle fait partie de notre condition humaine “La surcharge d’information fait partie de la condition humaine : nous sommes confrontés par trop de possibilité, trop de complexité”. En fait, la surcharge d’information est une force qui génère de l’innovation. Hubert Guillaud