Surf these sites: A New Knowledge Management Strategy -- How to Handle Information Overload and Enhance Business Intelligence. By Gail Claspell. Avoiding Information Overload -- by Captain Robert L. Bateman III, US Army. Information overload can be a particular danger in time-sensitive military operations. Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects -- Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain. Coping With Infoglut -- The ability to produce information is outstripping managers'' ability to process it. By Joseph McCafferty. Coping With Information Overload -- Too much of a good thing can hurt your job performance. By Jim Owen. CareerBuilder''s Articles about the Workplace. Dealing with an Information Glut -- The problem is discussed in daily newspapers, magazines, talk shows, on the radio and the net. It is variously referred to as information glut, information overload, information smog, infobog, etc. It is the problem only experienced by those lucky enough to have jobs, technology, and communication access. Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer -- Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape. Disposing of the digital chaff -- Article by Murray Gell-Mann. With the digital age producing an "immense sea of data that threatens to drown humanity," people need to adapt how they think so that true knowledge can be distilled from the deluge. Information Management -- Information Overload. Info-glut. Infobog. Data Smog. As information proliferates so do the labels for this malaise of the "Information Age." In this half-century, for the first time in history, the capacity for producing information is far greater than the human capacity to process it. Information Overload - An IR problem? -- An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format. Information Overload Annotated Webliography -- Information Overload is a unique problem. Information tends to be everywhere and we have problems even to remember where we put it, much less what it is. Here is a small collection of links to increase your information overload about information overload. Information Overload Could Make Voters Tune Out -- Will information technology ultimately help or hurt democracy? Information Overload: Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible -- By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine. Information Overload: Permission not to know -- By Krystyna Weinstein. We need to give ourselves permission to not know, and then work together, to share, and to allow ourselves time and space to consider what we really do need to know. Information overdose -- As the 21st century rapidly approaches, the Information Age is considered well underway. Even though information technology has provided opportunities for increased productivity for managers and executives, it has become obvious that "information at your fingertips" is a double-edged sword. Informing Ourselves to Death -- A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society. Managing Information: Infoglut -- New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley. New Age Heralds End of Information Overload -- Evolutionary model shows worst is yet to come for Eastern Europe. Ready or Not - Infoglut with-out psychosis -- So, does that mean we are now in the Information Age? Have we evolved from an Agrarian Society to an Industrial Society to an Information Society? Taming the E-mail Shrew -- Mitch Betts and Tim Ouellette. According to E-mail experts, unless message-swamped workers learn to manage their E-mail with daily discipline and filtering technologies, they will suffer lower productivity and higher stress. The Compassionate Confusion Site -- Discusses info overload and a dozen other sources of confusion. Theory of confusion dynamics tested using Vietnam war expansion, 1965. More rigorous test is real time forecasting of Kosovo war scenarios put up on site during and after war, using fuzzy cognitive maps We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload -- Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy. Winning battles in the war against information overload -- By Dr Pita Enriquez Harris. One of the first rules of managing information overload at work is to think before you read anything: is this really going to help me? If not then discard it: don''t get distracted. Which is why I''m personally guaranteeing the usefulness of this article.
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