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information overload

Multitasking Described

June 24, 2010

Yesterday I defined multitasking. I ended the post writing about those times when you have too many open programs on your computer and your computer says ENOUGH!  I can’t open another program unless you close some that are open. My thinking still is that most of us  need to learn that particular  skill a  whole [...]

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Multitasking Explained

June 23, 2010

Information technology has impacted our lives more than most of us even realize. It has changed not only how we work but where we work and when. For instance, I am writing this post in my office. It is not quite 5 AM and no one else is awake in the house. My goal is [...]

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3 More Time Boxing Tips for Productivity

June 20, 2010

If you understand that the time available to you is limited and you are a rational person, you are probably thinking about which tasks you want to prioritize. You start asking yourself what is important, what is urgent, what is passed due? When you use time boxing you can rank your outstanding tasks. You also [...]

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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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Reducing Stress With Information Overload by Goal Setting

June 9, 2010

The thought that focusing on goals may be an important part of the answer to dealing with stress from internet information overload never occurred to me until I received a call last night from a colleague. He had just returned from a 3-day working conference on the mobility of doing business online. (Now that’s another [...]

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Information Overload Results in Stress

June 7, 2010

I just watched 30 minutes of the news and learned about all the major events of the day plus the unresolved conflicts facing the world. Interestingly, I think the oil spill on the Gulf Coast bothered me the most because there is no control, no chance of mediation. I joined a webinar last week with [...]

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The Stress of Working with Changing Technology

June 6, 2010

There are two areas that can cause much stress for small businesses and professionals working on the Internet : The first is changing technology; The second is massive amounts of information. Let’s take a quick look at technology first. Computers helped create the massive amount of information we have

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Overwhelmed by Information

June 5, 2010

The Internet has been my primary resource for information whether I am writing articles about a particular business or industry or about a particular health issue. That wasn’t true just 5 years ago. If the article focused on anything dealing with health I was in the stacks of the library and the medical libraries of [...]

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