Posts Tagged ‘information’

4 Tech Tips to Keep Ahead of the Game for New Entrepreneurs

Thinking about starting a business or trying to make some cash out of the web? Technology can enable people and it can just as easily distract. We’ve got a few tips for you to consider to cut down on those distractions and costs and get more done, more efficiently and more effectively.

These tips all center on one thing: technology, whether it involves a specific device or just the way… » Continue

June 19 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, gps, information, rss, skype, u, virtual assistant | 9 comments»

Following Email Etiquette

In Simplifying Your Information Intake, we looked at strategies to reduce the amount of email you need to deal with, and how to deal with what’s left much faster. Anyone who undertakes the task of clearing out their inbox for good and getting a handle on their email habits inevitably discovers that the biggest reason email is plaguing so much of their time is the amount of unnecessary… » Continue

April 16 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, etiquette, information, organization | 13 comments»

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that “our obsession with ‘productivity’ is getting in the way of our lives.” Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out of control, and that it’s making us less efficient, not more. I agree with Nick, and I can tell you why the productivity industry is like that: it’s about… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, gtd, implementation, information, motivation, systems | 9 comments»

Go on a High-Information Diet

Everywhere you turn these days people are complaining about too much information. The phrase “information overload” gets more than 1.5 million hits on Google. (This post makes it one more!) Everyone seems to think that if they could just reduce the flow of information into their lives, everything would be all better. They could finally relax and take a minute to catch up.

My advice is the opposite: you don’t… » Continue

March 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: email, information, input, Management, rss | 25 comments»

Beyond Test Taking: Learning to Handle Information

I read lots of books. I follow several blogs. I take classes. I’ve learned enough new information I want to incorporate into my work that I know I haven’t got a chance of remembering it all. There have been times that all that information consumption has felt like a waste, because the human brain just isn’t built to remember so many details and act on them. Not just a… » Continue

March 18 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: information, learning, memory | 7 comments»

Simplifying Your Information Intake

Productivity. We spend more time reading about it, talking about it, writing about it, thinking about it than actually making it happen. We complicate it with a disjointed system of hacks that don’t really work well together, then we decide to simplify it; every year, every month, it’s a vicious cycle for those of us addicted to the cool-aid of productivity and lifehacking that streams forth from the feed… » Continue

March 7 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, feedreader, information, processing, rss | 13 comments»

My Struggles With Email Triage

I enjoy information, probably more than I should. I’ve managed to find a career path where information really is money — if I can break a story or create a new angle on it, I can eat at the end of the day. I’m constantly on the look out for new information that I can use. I get emails about all sorts of things, follow almost 300 blogs and… » Continue

February 14 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: email, information, overload, Productivity, rss | 20 comments»

Dealing with Information Overload

In a world full of information we seem to be constantly toggling between managing all the new impressions we get on a daily basis and feeling totally overwhelmed by information overload. With the arrival of the Internet we were told that things would become easier - less paper clutter to worry about and more time to enjoy life.

But this isn’t so, as we’ve all found out in recent years… » Continue

January 31 2008 | By Monika | Tagged: information, Management, mind, organization, Productivity | 15 comments»

Eight Tips to Find Your Information Oasis

The Internet Age allows you to get whatever information you want, as much as you want it. This, however, may do you more harm than good. The reason is simple: there is usually far too much noise in the information we consume. It becomes increasingly difficult to get the gems out of it, and it takes a lot of time and energy to deal with. Besides, increasing noise means… » Continue

August 22 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: effectiveness, information, prioritization, Productivity, reading, tips | 19 comments»

How to Ace Your Finals Without Studying

A smart productivity blogger, Scott H Young, shows you a way on getting good marks on your final exams without studying? Sounds like a pipe dream? He proves it is not.

He states there is a learning style called holistic learning, which is an opposite approach to learning by memorizing and practicing by repetition and force (compartmentalized learning):

Holistic learning takes an opposite approach. Learning holistically is not done by trying… » Continue

March 27 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, exam, information, learning, studying | no comments»

Avoid Getting Crazybusy

Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Sudbury psychiatrist, has written a book about the world we live in in regards to information overload and the attention deficit disorder it causes.

“They’re juggling deadlines, games, rehearsals, and school meetings,” says Hallowell. “They’re worrying about how the grocery shopping, cooking, and laundry will get done. People want to do all these activities. But they take on more than they can reasonably do. E-mail tends to… » Continue

March 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: information, overwork, prevention, prioritizing | no comments»

Find hints, tips, and information with Tipstrs

Tipstrs is a site that allows users to share hints, tips, and various information. Tipstrs is a knowledge repository mixed with a touch of social bookmarking. The tips listed at Tipstrs are organized according to topic. The topics range from art and resumes to children, computers, and woodworking. The following is the vision for Tipstrs:

The intention is that tipstrs be used as a hybrid… » Continue

March 6 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: information, Technology, tips | 1 comment»

Organizing Paper and Information: 7 Mistakes that Sabotage Your Productivity

As Professional Organizers helping people organize their home offices and workspaces, here are the 7 biggest information-organizing mistakes we see in our work with clients– are you making these mistakes too?

1. Not knowing the difference between “Action” & “Reference”

This concept is very important for beginning to get through your piles. You need to separate out paper and information that requires action from information that simply needs to… » Continue

February 27 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: backup, file, information, organization, paper, Productivity | 10 comments»

Want results? Frame your work.

There’s a technique I use to get blocks of work done well. I evolved this technique as one of a host of survival mechanisms over the past few years in response to losing more and more time to IFS – Information Fatigue Syndrome. If you read blogs (and you obviously do), surf sites, scan RSS feeds and get tons of email you know IFS – you just don’t… » Continue

February 16 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, information | 6 comments»

Top 10 Privacy Infringing Companies

The Business Intelligence Lowdown sheds light onto some very questionable privacy management practices by some of the biggest online companies including: America Online, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, and Google.
How much would you sell your private data to a company for? Would you take $100 to let someone see every site you have visited over the past year, how about $1,000? Today, many major companies spend millions collecting a variety data on… » Continue

February 6 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: consumer, information, Management, privacy | 3 comments»

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