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		<title>The curse of being in the know</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/07/the-curse-of-being-in-the-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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The desire to &#8220;Be in the Know&#8221; has no doubt been around since our stone age ancestors had developed language. In addition to the actual value of the information, it meant being close to the seat of power, to where the decisions of the tribe or village or city-state were being made or influenced. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A blast from the past: weekly status updates</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/07/a-blast-from-the-past-weekly-status-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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Periodic status reports are one area where you would do well to look for information overload improvement opportunities. In many organizations the network hums with daily reports, weekly reports, and monthly reports, often with large amounts of redundancy. Just take a critical look around you, or in the mirror&#8230;
But something reminded me the other day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook encroaches on email and blog interaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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I observed in my April newsletter that we may be approaching an inflection point: the next generation of workers may not be as eager as their predecessors to &#8220;Live in their Email&#8221; &#8211; they may well choose to live in Facebook, or some equivalent, instead. Some of the younger generation already forgo using email today: [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Individual Solutions]]></category>
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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>
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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>The decay to the rest state</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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Happy independence day to our American friends!&#8230;
Today I want to draw your attention to a phenomenon that is quite familiar to us physicists, but has a place in driving solutions to information overload as well. I refer to the decay to a rest state.
In physics, this is often seen when a system is pushed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook and Email Overload reduction</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/06/facebook-and-email-overload-reduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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Of course Facebook can do a lot of different things for different people; and different people eye it with enthusiasm, hostility, and anything in between. Some say it can consume hours each day, and thus reduce your productivity; others say it will eventually replace email in the workplace (as it is already in process of [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Individual Solutions]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact and Symptoms]]></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>Five characteristics of Information Overload in Small Businesses</title>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2010/06/five-characteristics-of-information-overload-in-small-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Zeldes</dc:creator>
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Last week I lectured on Information Overload at a seminar for small business entrepreneurs. This is a very diverse, lively and interesting population segment, brimming with energy and originality. I had an interesting time talking to people making a living from areas as different as marriage (and, alas, divorce) counseling, organic food production, web site [...]]]></description>
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