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What Timothy Leary Can Teach Us About Enjoying The Holidays

In 1967, Timothy Leary advised youth to "turn on, tune in, and drop out." But rather than endorse drugs or withdrawal from society, Leary's words are strong medicine for today's digitally exhausted holiday partiers.READ»

10 Bold Tech Predictions For 2012

Cloud, tablets, social business--here are the technology trends to watch out for in 2012. READ»

Now, Where Was I? 6 Strategies For Dealing With Workplace Distractions

"Close the doors of your senses in order to achieve solitude in the presence of other people," Petrarch wrote (more than 600 years ago). Distractions in the workplace are nothing new, but technology has made them much worse. Here are six time-tested strategies for regaining laser-like focus at work. READ»

Is Google+ Ready For Business?

The Google+ experiment is growing, even in the enterprise. Can Google+ be a serious contender for the provider of enterprise service networks? And who should be afraid of Google's success?READ»

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Analytics And Info Overload: Insights From eBay, Adobe, And Oracle

Are analytics a prescription for information overload? Three top Silicon Valley tech titans share views on what's new in e-commerce and retailing. READ»

Digital Distractions Survey: Feedback From The Field

Last week I reported on a new industry survey that looked at digital distractions at work. This week, feedback on the survey.READ»

I Can't Get My Work Done: A New Industry Survey Looks At Workplace Distractions

A new industry survey finds that almost 60% of work interruptions are digital, people waste over an hour a day at work, and two thirds of workers will tune out of meetings to connect digitally with someone else. READ»

New Research Shows Information Overload Contributes to Worker Productivity

Surprising new research was released today (April 1st) revealing that workers become more increasingly productive the more they are interrupted. READ»

8 Must- Reads About Digital Distraction and Information Overload

Digital overload caused by a deluge of information and frequent interruptions is a phenomenon that you cannot ignore. Here are a few "must read" articles that appeared in the popular press during the last several weeks.READ»

Future Shock at 40: The Tofflers Stir Up "Cyberdust" With New Scenarios

Cyberdust, obsoledge, and other visions of tomorrow from the people who introduced Future Shock in 1970. READ»

Infographic: Is Information Overload Over-Hyped?

Have we become a society of whiners when it comes to information overload? The time management field is overflowing with advice touting that more self-discipline is needed to control time allocations. Should we just "man-up" and ...READ»

Marketing Mad Libs: The "Next Biggest Tsunami" Headline Generator

Here is some practical advice to get some attention using a simple headline generator. Just start with the following sentence: "The Social Networking tsunami will forever change the way we manage our lives."READ»

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Less Input and More "Innerput"

The Web, the Internet, and all of the new media that has sprung from them , have been a boon to the information age, making information available at our fingertips instantaneously. The sheer volume of information now accessible on line is staggering. Information continues to become more available to more people in less time; from web sites to email to RSS feeds to Twitter, we have input at an unprecedented rate and volume. For all its benefits, an unfortunate consequence of this torrent of information is that our “mental inbox” becomes overloaded. With our minds spilling over with information, our primary motivation is to empty it as quickly as possible. READ»

Too Many Social Network Updates? Two Tools for Filtering the Nobodies

There are plenty of tools out there for adding "friends" to your social network: Glue lets you connect with others who like the same media and entertainment sites as you, Twinkle lets you discover people tweeting near you, ...READ»