The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.
All in personal effectiveness
The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.
Computerworld interviews the authors of some new research on IT and productivity. Looks like some interesting though easily misinterpreted results.
Over lunch last week, Jim McGee mentioned the CIO Insight piece on Alan Kay in relation to personal effectiveness, and now he's blogged it.
Emily Chang jumped into an interesting discussion of one piece of personal knowledge management with My Data Stream.
David Anderson has a great comment on respect and courtesy. Courtesy is the baseline behavior. But without respect, it is difficult to get things done in any collaborative manner.
Helgi Páll Einarsson writes, "The internet vs. inner peace" in which he provides suggestions on overcoming the haze of over-stimulation.
Chuck Frey has posted an Exclusive interview with Tony Buzan, which reveals more about mind mapping than I knew.
Jonathan Spira at Collaboration Loop provides a collective take on The Knowledge Worker's New Year's Resolutions.
Josh Nankivel has started blogging and picked up on the perennially-favorite topic of multi-tasking. He talks about the theory of constraints connection, and he also makes connection to Covey's 4 quadrants.
What would you recommend for tips on dealing with the flood of digital information? That's the question from Michael Sampson in his "Seven Things" article. He provides six, and I try at a seventh.
Ah, to live in London. The sights, the sounds, the history, the Knowledge Cafes! The most recent event played host to knowledge management "guru" and blogger Dave Pollard, who talked about personal knowledge management.
Luke Naismith writes about "Infoluenza." This idea goes beyond strict information overload and suggests a group psychology that prevents us, as a society, from stopping and thinking about what we are doing and why.
Emily Turrettini at SmartMobs references a piece by Jeff Zaslow in the WSJ, "How You Handle Your Email Inbox Says a Lot About You."
James Robertson has posted another of his CM Briefings, this time on "The real cost of email in organisations."
Kevin Rutherford has taken me literally and has some ideas for defining and quantifying personal goals. He has an idea (untested) for a mechanism to define and quantify personal goals.
Too Busy Being Unproductive to Learn to Be Productive is another of Dave Pollard's pieces on the topic of finding the right work environment.
One of the big ideas for me in a personal approach to knowledge management is that I get to consider what's important for me and how I want to manage and use it. I get to look at my skills and preferences and consider how this fits with where I am in life, so why not apply this to the job search process.
Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide's Neurolearning Blog give us some insight into blogging in "Blogs as Our Brains: Can We Escape Chaos?" They touch on a couple aspects of blogging and cognition that make things chaotic: tagging, learning preferences, and even organizational skills.
Bill Ives has done his first podcast with the Otter Group's Learning2.0 podcast series. His topic is Blogs as Personal Knowledge Management, and he does a nice job of summarizing in six minutes what blogs are and how Bill (and others) use blogs as their "backup brain."
I was at a talk recently in which the speaker mentioned that humans process a given idea for 6-7 seconds before moving onto the next idea.