As the world enters the Knowledge Age, information on virtually every aspect of our lives and businesses is becoming available at an increasing rate. When the availability of information outstrips the time and energy of those who could potentially use it, frustration can result. This condition is often referred to as information overload or infoglut. Left unresolved, this can lead to inefficiency at best, job burnout at worst.
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  • Managing information
    Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
  • Information Overload Annotated Webliography
    A collection of links about Information Overload.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Spinning Around
    Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
  • The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload
    This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. (Acrobat File).
  • 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.
  • Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
    Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
  • Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload
    Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
  • Managing Information: Infoglut
    New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
  • Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch
    Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.
  • 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.
  • The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce
    Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.
  • eCFO - Fighting Information Overload
    Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
  • NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
    Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.
  • How Much Information
    An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
  • Informing Ourselves to Death
    A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.

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  • PKM and Information Overload
    URL : anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/.../researcher/articles/info_overload.html
    Personal Knowledge Management: A Strategy for Controlling Information Overload ... Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) was developed as a workshop for students in ...[2002/02/05]
  • Slaw: Combating Information Overload
    URL : www.slaw.ca/2007/06/26/combating-information-overload
    At a recent knowledge management (KM) conference in New York sponsored by WestKM ... Better email management – much of the anxiety of information overload may in ...[2008/11/21]
  • Knowledge Management - Free help for you to learn about Knowledge ...
    URL : workhelp.org/Knowledge_Management/index.html
    Learn about the new field/process of knowledge management in an era of information overload. ... From Information to Knowledge Management - Are You Prepared? ...[2007/07/31]
  • Fighting Information Overload - Technology - CFO.com
    URL : www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204
    Knowledge management software helps you find the most relevant, most useful data. ... who do knowledge management create extra work as they add information" to the ...[2008/11/25]
  • The Knowledge Discovery Challenge | Context Discovery
    URL : blog.contextdiscovery.com/.../the-knowledge-discovery-challenge
    ... Information Overload, Knowledge Management, ... Information Overload (20) Knowledge Management (9) Learning (6) mind mapping (1) MindManager (4) ...[2008/11/13]
  • Knowledge Management | Context Discovery
    URL : blog.contextdiscovery.com/index.php/tag/knowledge-management
    Tags: Information Overload, Knowledge Management. Posted ... Information Overload (20) Knowledge Management (9) Learning (6) mind mapping (1) MindManager (4) ...[2008/11/11]
  • Email Management: Cure Enterprise Email Overload and Share Information
    URL : www.taglocity.com/index.html
    Email management, email productivity, and knowledge sharing for the agile enterprise. ... Email overload. Productivity & attention deficit. Knowledge waste ...[2008/11/22]
  • Sales Knowledge Management
    URL : www.binder-riha.com/skm_paper.htm
    ... is often seen as a panacea for the problems of knowledge management. ... In fact, technology can worsen rather than improve the problem of information overload. ...[2001/12/31]
  • Information Management
    URL : www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Information
    Data is not Information, Information is not Knowledge, Knowledge is not Wisdom ... What is information overload, and how to deal with it? ...[2003/09/02]
  • information overload definition
    URL : www.businessdictionary.com/definition/information-overload.html
    information overload - definition of information overload from ... information overload is in the Information & Knowledge Management subject. ...[2008/11/22]
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