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	<title>Challenge Information Overload &#187; Individual Solutions</title>
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		<title>Five tactics to prevent your email from reaching the wrong eyes</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/09/five-tactics-to-prevent-your-email-from-reaching-the-wrong-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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In a previous post we saw that it&#8217;s all too easy for your email to find its way to people you hadn&#8217;t meant it for. So, what can you do when sending a sensitive message, to prevent such embarrassment (or worse)?
Here are some tactics to consider:

You can put in the message an explicit plea for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The napping crusade</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/07/the-napping-crusade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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I had the pleasure of being interviewed for an article on Multitasking by Thea O&#8217;Connor, an Australian journalist and health promotion consultant. Of course I visited her web site and I discovered a refreshingly different campaign Thea is crusading for: the Napping Project. The idea being, that &#8220;napping is a refreshing and proven solution to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brevity is the soul of Wit&#8230; so where is the soul of Email?</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/07/brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit-so-where-is-the-soul-of-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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If Brevity is the soul of Wit (as Shakespeake has Polonius tell us), how much of this soul can we expect in the age of electronic communication?
Not much, probably. Brevity requires more investment than verbosity. Blaise Pascal once wrote, &#8220;I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to avoid email mania without annoying your customers</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/06/how-to-avoid-email-mania-without-annoying-your-customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

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Here is a question I was asked by an attendee at one of my lectures. I was teaching the importance of not using email like Instant Messenger, of reading it only a few times a day in preset slots. The guy wanted to know how can he do this, when his customers expect him to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading email or Understanding email?</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/06/reading-email-or-understanding-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Individual Solutions]]></category>
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Considering the amount of time we all spend reading incoming email, it’s amazing how little we understand what we read.
That reading and understanding are two different things is clear; this is why legal documents use verbiage like “I confirm that I have read and understood the terms &#38; conditions bla bla bla”… but it’s amazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not Disturb!</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/05/do-not-disturb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 11:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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My Nokia E71 smartphone has a selection of available specialized profiles, of which the most useful one is probably &#8220;Silent&#8221;, for use in meetings and theatres. Useful, yet I use it with trepidation.
I fear the Silent profile because I KNOW, I&#8217;m practically certain, that I will forget to turn it off when the meeting is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nathan&#8217;s First Tip for fighting email overload</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/03/nathans-first-tip-for-fighting-email-overload/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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To completely stop email overload, you need to tailor a complete organizational solution; you can get some ideas for that on my site. But I find that many people derive value by implementing some simple individual measures, and I often get asked what the best of these are.
So here, for your enjoyment, is my favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five ways to prevent gaffes in email</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/02/five-ways-to-prevent-gaffes-in-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/?p=158</guid>
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The horror stories abound. A careless click on Send, and incalculable damage befalls a sensitive business deal or workplace relationship. Or the sender can become a joke. Or worse.
This is not new; even before email, a careless letter could do much damage if it fell into the wrong hands, or was written in haste. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The early bird gets nowhere</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/01/the-early-bird-gets-nowhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact and Symptoms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[interruptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meetings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/?p=147</guid>
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People need some peace and quiet to be able to focus on creative work. Since in this age of the Blackberry interruptions are a constant disruption all day long, and endless meetings clobber one’s schedule, it follows that knowledge workers have two choices: either abandon all hope of doing seriously creative work, or try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop hoarding information for a rainy day</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2009/12/stop-hoarding-information-for-a-rainy-day/</link>
		<comments>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2009/12/stop-hoarding-information-for-a-rainy-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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Here’s a story from the early nineties,  a time when much information in the workplace was stored and moved on sheets of mashed tree pulp.
Back then I was doing research into Artificial Neural Networks, and my coworkers at Intel got into the habit of mailing me (in an inter-office envelope) a copy of any [...]]]></description>
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