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How email deluge makes frustrated workers go postal
Source: Herald Sun
Author: Sarah O'Carroll
Date: 2011-12-05
Excerpt: A recent report, commissioned by Hitachi Data Systems, found 40 per cent of companies in Australia and New Zealand are suffering from the information glut, up from 34 per cent two years ago.
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At These Companies, Distraction is a Health Hazard
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Author: Rachel Emma Silverman
Excerpt: Companies are trying to reduce digital distraction in order to help employees stay focused, according to a story in this Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal.
Many of the efforts lift productivity; research group Basex estimated that information overload and resulting distraction led to $1 trillion in lost productivity in 2010. (The data accounted for time spent managing email and other content and the lengthy recovery time once a worker is sidetracked).
Information Overload: Interview with David Ryan Polgar
Streamed live on Mar 22, 2013
Sarah Miner interviews David Ryan Polgar about Information Overload. Polgar is the author of Wisdom in the Age of Twitter. More information at:
www.DavidRyanPolgar.com
Source: YouTube
Author: David Ryan Polgar
Date: 03/22/2013
Information Overload: Interview with David Ryan Polgar
Source: YouTube
Author: David Ryan Polgar
Date: 03/22/2013
How Big Data is Changing the Whole Equation for Business
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Author: Steven Rosenbush and Michael Totty
Date: 03/11/2013
Excerpt: The experts call this state of affairs big data. The definition is squishy, but it usually boils down to this: Companies have access to vastly more information than they used to, it comes from many more different sources than before, and they can get it almost as soon as it's generated.
Information Overload: Interview with David Ryan Polgar about Mental Obesity
Source: Sarah Miner
Author: Sarah Miner
Date: 03/21/2013
Excerpt: A short discussion about ways to find a balance with our information consumption in order to maximize our creativity and productivity.
Radical Email Overload Solution: Batching Email Delivery
Source: http://www.nathanzeldes.com
Author: Nathan Zeldes
Date: 02/19/2013
Excerpt: One of the worst causes of information overload is the constant arrival of email into the knowledge worker’s attention sphere. With new mail arriving every few minutes, people can never fully focus on their work. If they haven’t turned off the “you’ve got mail” alerts they are passively distracted; if they have, a sizable fraction of users still distract themselves by checking for new email every few minutes. What is needed is a way to prevent this checking.
Unload Email Overload
I believe my book, Unload Email Overload, should be a part of your resource library. It can accomplish two major objectives: 1) help professionals, knowledge workers, leaders and managers stay focused, manage the interruptive nature of email and be more productive, and 2) raise awareness of upper management to the productivity loss issues associated with the confluence of Social Networking, Smartphone Technology, 24/7 corporate culture and poor email management behavior. The email mastering methodology and the corporate awareness can mitigate thousands of hours and millions of dollars of lost productivity
Source: Author
Author: Bob O'Hare
Excerpt: The email alert is a trigger to information overload. Mastering email can unload email overload and save thousands of hours of precious time. The MasteringEmail (tm) methodology, published in Unload Email Overload, provides the principles, method and details necessary to mitigate information overload--and get home in time for dinner.
Subliminal Learning and Information Overload
Source: ABC News
Author: Melinda T. Willis
Date: 10/24/2012
Excerpt: Many people think learning requires intense study and focus. But a study in today's journal Nature seems to show that's not true.
"You don't have to pay attention to something to learn it," lead researcher Takeo Watanabe, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston University, says the study shows. "In fact, you don't even have to perceive it."
Information overload making your head explode?
Source: WND Education
Author: Steve Elwart
Date: 01/13/2013
Excerpt: If you think you are being bombarded by information now, just wait.
The term “Information overload,” sometimes called, “infobesity,” is a term that came into everyday use in the 1970s. It refers to our inability to absorb and process all the information to which we are exposed.
How we read, not what we read, may be contributing to our information overload
Source: Nieman Journalism Lab
Author: Justin Ellis
Date: 11/26/2012
Excerpt: Every day, a new app or service arrives with the promise of helping people cut down on the flood of information they receive. It’s the natural result of living in a time when an ever-increasing number of news providers push a constant stream of headlines at us every day.
But what if it’s the ways we choose to read the news — not the glut of news providers — that make us feel overwhelmed? An interesting new study out of the University of Texas looks at the factors that contribute to the concept of information overload, and found that, for some people, the platform on which news is being consumed can make all the difference between whether you feel overwhelmed.
