This document discusses how people are overloaded with information and provides tips for managing information overload with technology. It suggests using email more efficiently by separating accounts, searching smarter using tools and operators, finding expert curators on social media, subscribing to RSS feeds, and using cloud apps and services. The key ideas are that greater access to information does not equal knowledge, multitasking is not the same as managing complexity, and technology can help filter information if used strategically.

1. Overloaded:
Managing information
with high-tech help
David Kamerer, PhD, APR
Loyola University Chicago

3. Resources:
Find this slide deck and all links at
http://davidkamerer.com

4. Signal
Noise

5. Agenda:
We are overloaded
E Mail
Search smarter
Find the curators
Use feeds
The cloud/Apps

6. Toffler
(FOMO)

7. The Attention Crash:
Steve “We are reaching a point
where the number of inputs
Rubel we have as individuals is
beginning to exceed what
we are capable as humans
of managing. The demands
for our attention are
becoming so great, and the
problem so widespread, that
it will cause people to crash
and curtail these drains.
Human attention does not
obey Moore’s Law.”
Source: http://steverubel.me

8. - Greater access to
knowledge is not the same
Nicholas as greater knowledge.
- An ever-increasing
Carr plethora of facts & data is
not the same as wisdom.
- Breadth of knowledge is
not the same as depth of
knowledge.
- Multitasking is not the
same as complexity.

9. Howard
Rheingold
Source: http://rheingold.com

10. "The Internet software that we
use is getting smarter, and
Eli more tailored to our needs, all
the time. The risk, Eli Pariser
Pariser reveals, is that we
increasingly won't see other
perspectives. In The Filter
Bubble, he shows us how the
trend could reinforce partisan
and narrow mindsets, and
points the way to a greater
online diversity of
perspective.”
- Craig Newmark
Source: http://thefilterbubble.com

11. Agenda:
We are overloaded
E Mail
Search smarter
Find the curators
Use feeds
The cloud/Apps

12. Three email accounts:
1.One for those who love you
2.One for those who pay you
3.One for transactions
Source: Jeremy Owyang, Forrester Research

13. Merlin Mann:
Time and attention are finite.
Demands on your time and attention are infinite.
Source: http://inboxzero.com/

15. Agenda:
We are overloaded
E Mail
Search smarter
Find the curators
Use feeds
Special-purpose tools
The cloud/Apps

16. Search better
General principle:
use search more like a scalpel,
less like a chainsaw.

17. Source: http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/

18. Source: http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/

19. Source: http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/

20. Google can also:
Calculate
Track packages
Inches to centimeters
Sports scores
Weather
Source: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html

21. Use the
right index:
News
Scholar
Blogs
etc.
Source: http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/

22. Operators in
Gmail
Source: http://http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190

23. Source: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/tipstricks/basics.html

24. Agenda:
We are overloaded
E Mail
Search smarter
Find the curators
Use feeds
The cloud/Apps

25. Social discovery:
Variable information quality
Time consuming
Occasional brilliance
fishing from the ocean

26. Source: http://adage.com/power150/

27. Which networks?

28. Twitter
Real-time beating heart of the web
You don’t need an account to benefit
Twitter lists
Twitter directories
(Twellow, TweetFollow, WeFind)
Twitter search/advanced search

30. More powerful tools
For posting:
Hootsuite
Tweetdeck
For listening:
ScoutLabs
Radian6

31. Agenda:
We are overloaded
E Mail
Search smarter
Find the curators
Use feeds
The cloud/Apps

32. RSS:
Yes, it’s in decline
Yes, it’s still useful
Get feeds from:
• blogs
• news
• social sites
• Google alerts

33. Source: http://adage.com/power150/

34. Source: http://adage.com/power150/

35. Sync your RSS feeds:
Google app
NetNewsWire
Reeder
others

36. Agenda:
We are overloaded
E Mail
Search smarter
Find the curators
Use feeds
The cloud/Apps

37. Delicious

43. { breathe }

44. Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval
and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
-Tao Te Ching

45. Q&A
slides and links at davidkamerer.com