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	<title>Challenge Information Overload</title>
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		<title>We have a generation gap to bridge!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve reported a number of cases where managers (most famously, Barack Obama)  implement an interrupt-free environment by mandating a “no cellphones” policy in meetings. While I wholeheartedly applaud this behavior, I must in all fairness report a dissenting viewpoint. I was talking to a Gen Y worker whose company  had launched such a ban, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2012/01/we-have-a-generation-gap-to-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Join us at IORG’s “Overloaded 2012” in San Francisco!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Information Overload Research Group is organizing a private one-day gathering of people who are leading the battle against Information Overload from a diversity of domains such as business, academia, technology, journalism, psychology, and research.   If you share our passion, we&#8217;d love your attendance in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2012. For more details, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2012/01/join-us-at-iorg%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9coverloaded-2012%e2%80%9d-in-san-francisco/</link>
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		<title>All alone in the info-flood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although practically every organization is full of knowledge workers groaning under a deluge of email, it&#8217;s interesting to note that in many of them I run into a small minority of people who have things under control. I discover them on occasion when I explain the various solutions I can bring in, and someone says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2012/01/all-alone-in-the-info-flood/</link>
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		<title>Volkswagen shields its employees from its own Blackberries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of Blackberries and similar Smartphones has contributed significantly to the erosion of the Work/Life barrier, and has caused knowledge Workers to assume – erroneously, perhaps, but with conviction – that they must be on call 24&#215;7. I’ve seen it happen repeatedly among my clients: people send and receive emails at all hours, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/12/volkswagen-shields-its-employees-from-its-own-blackberries/</link>
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		<title>The iPad and the card file</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I visited a doctor’s office and was surprised when his secretary pulled out a card – a ruled cardboard rectangle – to fill in my data. She had boxes of such patient cards in her office. A natural first reaction would be that this doctor must be pretty old and behind the times&#8230; Then I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/12/the-ipad-and-the-card-file/</link>
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		<title>What would Socrates think of Google?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was discussing with a college student I’ve been advising whether it was a good or a bad thing that Google makes access to answers so easy. To my surprise, she opined that it’s a bad thing – because people who use Google to answer a question are more likely to forget the answer they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/12/what-would-socrates-think-of-google/</link>
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		<title>How a real Pro manages Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Email overload tends to go up the more senior you get; executive level managers can easily get a few hundred incoming work-related messages a day. This is so commonplace that they don’t even stop to complain about it; they either cope with the crushing stress or they delegate their Inbox processing to an assistant. I’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/11/how-a-real-pro-manages-email/</link>
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		<title>Do not Disturb variation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about various methods of ensuring freedom from interruption in the office; but pre-dating these there was the familiar &#8220;Do not Disturb&#8221; sign you hang on a hotel room door knob. These used to come in different colors, but they kept pretty much to the same form dictated by their function. A cardboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/11/do-not-disturb-variation/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t they read?! – Take 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve pointed out that people don’t read the emails they’re replying to&#8230; and here is one more common manifestation of this: when you send someone an email asking two or three questions, you can be almost certain the reply will only address the first one. The recipient reads your mail, hits a question, responds to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/11/cant-they-read-%e2%80%93-take-2/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t they read?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The intent of email is to facilitate communication. Right? So &#8211; someone mails me to ask to meet Tuesday. I send a reply: I can&#8217;t meet  Face to Face that day, so let&#8217;s do it by phone &#8211; can you do it at 3 PM? The reply I get says: If it&#8217;s FTF I can&#8217;t, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://information-overload.nzeldes.com/blog/2011/10/cant-they-read/</link>
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