informationoverload - Christophe Deschamps on Diigo

02 Oct 09

How to Beat Information Overload

Un article de 5 pages (web) par Nathan Zeldes, un des grands spécialistes de la question.

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01 Oct 09

Nubli pour Outlook

Un nouveau plugin d'aide à la gestion de ses emails sous Outlook

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Death by Information Overload - HBR.org

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It’s also the vast ocean of information I feel compelled to go out and explore in order to keep up in my job
Current research suggests that the surging volume of available information—and its interruption of people’s work—can adversely affect not only personal well-being but also decision making, innovation, and productivity. In one study, for example, people took an average of nearly 25 minutes to return to a work task after an e-mail interruption.
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- Digitizing content also removed barriers to another activity first made possible by the printing press:publishing new information.

30 Sep 09

Les réseaux sociaux augmenteraient l'usage du courrier électronique

"En plein boom des réseaux communautaires tels que Facebook ou MySpace, plusieurs cabinets d'analyse estimaient que les communications sur internet seraient, à terme, modifiées et que l'usage du courrier électronique s'en verrait impacté."

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En fin de compte, il apparaît que les utilisateurs de réseaux communautaires seraient également de plus grands consommateurs d'emails.
Les sites sociaux tels que Facebook envoient des messages dans votre boite mail à chaque fois que quelqu'un commente l'une de vos publications, ou celle de quelqu'un d'autre que vous avez vous-même commentée.
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29 Sep 09

A Simple Approach to Managing Information Overload

Intéressant mais les fichiers ne peuvent plus ensuite être classés par thèmes et c'est dommageable.

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30 Aug 09

Infotention Filters - What combination of mental and online tools can deal with information overload?

Système de veille et gestion de l'information personnel présenté sous forme de diagramme (Cmap)

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Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians

Intérêt et complexité de l'archivage des données numériques à l'ère de l'information overload. Problématiques intéressantes notamment pour ce qui est des données scientifiques.

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Dr. John, the library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand the people who made them.
Scientists who collaborate via email, Google, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook are leaving fewer paper trails, while the information technologies that do document their accomplishments can be incomprehensible to other researchers and historians trying to read them. Computer-intensive experiments and the software used to analyze their output generate millions of gigabytes of data that are stored or retrieved by electronic systems that quickly become obsolete.
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- Computer users world-wide generate enough digital data every 15 minutes to fill the U.S. Library of Congress.
- In fact, more technical data have been collected in the past year alone than in all previous years since science began,
- The problem is forcing historians to become scientists, and scientists to become archivists and curators. Digital records, unlike laboratory notebooks, can't be read without the proper hardware, software and passwords. Electronic copies are difficult to verify and are easy to alter or forge. Digital records "can be more direct, more immediate and more candid," Dr. John says. "But how can we demonstrate to people in the future that these are the real thing?
- The RAND Corp. says that researchers creating important digital data sets show an alarming lack of concern about preserving them in digital preservation:
- "Our ability to collect data now outstrips our ability to maintain it for the long run," says William Michener at the University of New Mexico, who leads a data-preservation network called DataONE. "We lose an awful lot of data that is collected with public funds."
- "It is sexy to think about the big data sets, but a vast amount of data is contained in lots of really small data sets created by different researchers using different software," says Patricia Cruse, director of the digital-preservation program for the University of California system. "People retire and their knowledge about their data retires with them."
- "The problem is to actually capture the way scientists interact with the data," Dr. Szalay says. "Today's graduate students are starting to use instant messaging in their scientific work. We have to figure out how to capture these."
- "Digital information lasts forever -- or five years," says RAND Corp. computer analyst Jeff Rothenberg, "whichever comes first."

19 Jul 09

Le multitasking est il un mythe dangereux ?

Réflexions de Bertrand Duperrin sur le multitasking et la gestion de l'attention.

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La réponse à cette question a deux aspects.

• Le premier est comportemental : il faut savoir se couper des flux et se concentrer sur une tâche jusqu’à son terme, sans être dérangé.
les outils mis à disposition des collaborateurs doivent leur permettre d’être les maitres et non les victimes des flux. Ils doivent pouvoir les prioriser, les mettre en attente, les détourner et faire en sorte que “si l’information est pertinente elle me parvienne…sinon elle attendra”. Bref les outils doivent leur permettre de construire leur supply chain d’information personnelle dont ils contrôleront contenu, débit et timing à partir d’une marketplace de l’information, d’une gare de routage.

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IBM's Steve Mills discusses how companies can utilize their digitized information.

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How do you leverage all of that? There is numerical data, but there is also digitized text-based information, images and audio. What is your architecture and game plan to maximize all of this? In some cases it's about how to share it. In others, it's about ensuring it's consistent. Many companies have too much data of a disparate nature--same topic, different representation. Do they have one version of the truth in their company? Are they effectively capturing it so they can analyze how their business is operating?
If you're running a company, one of the things you'd like to do is rapidly evaluate what's happening to your business in real time and use information technology to formulate better conclusions about the choices you have going forward.
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- Then you can apply the latest analytical techniques and dashboards to deliver that on a timely basis to the people in your company who are making the critical decisions.
- For a lot of CIOs, their problem is clutter. They have a hard time determining what the problem is. They have duplicates and derivative data, which is the even bigger problem. If you have five ways of looking at the same thing, you struggle to figure out which one is right.
- The cost of storing and managing that data has come down dramatically, and the ability to apply very sophisticated analytic tools against that data has improved. This is both hardware and software. It's high-bandwidth communications and high-performance computing that have become much more economical.
- In the future, will the competitive advantage come from being able to actually make sense of that data?
  Absolutely, and in real time. If you assume that you can capture all the data, put it in the right format, map it to the structures of the company and you have good analytics tools to understand that data in real time, you will be able to make better decisions to optimize your company whether that's revenue-generating capabilities or operational areas to contain costs.
- If I'm a CEO, how can I have the best ratios of any company in the industries in which I compete.
- Are you focused on the critical aspects of master data management--one version of the truth? Are you applying the latest techniques to analyze how to run your company more efficiently?

28 May 09

Information Overload - The Movie

Le cabinet d'études Basex, bien connu pour ses travaux sur l'information overload a mis en ligne cette vidéo sur Youtube.

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22 May 09

Have You Ever Spent 38 Minutes Looking for a Document?

Une étude dont les résultats sont un beau plaidoyer pour les technologies 2.0.

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A new survey, however, finds that employees at big companies (with more than 10,000 employees) spend, on average, 38 minutes searching for one document -- whether that's on their own computers or their organization's networks, databases or intranet
n addition, the survey of 200 respondents from companies in a wide range of industries found that employees are having trouble finding the most efficient and appropriate technology tools to locate documents or internal expertise. To find in-house experts, for instance, 71 percent of the respondents said they "ask around"; 46 percent said they use the company directory; 34 percent use the company website or intranet; and 30 percent said they send a companywide e-mail (and we all know how annoying those can be).
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- Overall, the findings, states the survey report, "illustrate a dangerous, recession-induced trend of overreliance on outdated technology and an inability to provide workers with the most current tools available."

08 May 09

IORG - Information Overload Research Group

Le site d'une organisation qui étudie le problème de l'information overload

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Tackling Information Overload

Long compte-rendu d'un séminaire consacré à l'information overload

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Here's how we knowledge workers spend our days, according to Basex:
28%-Unnecessary interruptions followed by "recovery time" to get back on track
25%-Creating content-productive!
20%-Meetings-some productive, some not
15%-Searching for information (and an estimated 50% of searches fail)
12%-Thinking and reflecting
Over the past several years, she has been studying the different ways that knowledge workers experience disruptions in their work due to multitasking and interruptions. She and other researchers actually shadowed 36 people in their workplace for several days, recording and timing all their actions to the second. Here's another startling number-they found that people spend only about 3 minutes on average on a task before switching tasks or being interrupted.
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- They also found that physically co-located workers spend longer chunks of times engaged in peripheral tasks (those for which they aren't accountable) and experience significantly more interruptions. It made me grateful for my telecommuting/solo office work arrangement.
- Late last year, Xerox scientists who study the future of work put out a list of simple ways to save time and to manage information overload. They warrant a brief recap here:
  1. Breathe-Schedule breaks in your work routine.
  2. Simplify your schedule-Schedule meetings on specific days, leaving others free.
  3. Back it up-'Nuff said.
  4. Declutter your desktop (both of them).
  5. Touch it once-and respond, file, or delete.
  6. Forget the free stuff (choose quality over quantity).
  7. Use your tools, such as your smartphone.
  8. RSS reprieve-Sign up with an aggregator.
  9. Manage mobile madness-Use a mobile device and deal with things as they arise.