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information overload

Timeboxing – Another Approach to Managing Information

June 18, 2010

I had never heard of timeboxing before I started writing blog posts about internet information overload. Apparently, timeboxing was a term that evolved from software developers. Rather than have a task and work until that task was completed, the guidelines for timeboxing  were to give yourself a time limit for you to work on a [...]

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More On Chunking versus Multitasking

June 17, 2010

I have been using chunking successfully for some time. Each time I write an article for a publication or a client, I write an outline about the topic and then chunk the information I have or research for the information I need, according to the outline. This works especially well when I am limited to [...]

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Multitasking versus Chunking

June 16, 2010

I do some multitasking but I’m not very good at it. I suspect my best period of multitasking came when the girls were babies and toddlers. I am convinced every mother is a multitasker regardless of her skill level before motherhood. I can, however, watch TV and do anything else as long as I’m not [...]

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Chunking is Information in Bite Size Pieces

June 15, 2010

The word chunking is used frequently when there is a large amount of information that needs to be organized especially when there may not be any obvious pattern in the material.  That happens a lot when you’re researching and working on the Internet. The concept of chunking is similar to a memory mechanism that we [...]

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