
AwayFind Some advice on what to do when you’re bogged down and falling behind: http://bit.ly/7LXOPA (by Mike Vardy, GTD Times)
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Like most of you, I have a lot going on. Between my writing and the regular day job (the one that I enjoy a ton and it pays regularly), I’d taken on a couple of speaking engagements and started work on a book. Apparently, I also have a wife and daughter...

AwayFind Interesting: Using information design (pictures) to help combat information overload http://bit.ly/7Vk5Ai (from BBC News)
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Serious information used to be relayed in words, graphs and charts - pictures were just pretty window dressing. That's all changing, says David McCandless.

AwayFind Tip: Do something important first thing in the morning to maximize productivity: http://bit.ly/8U1TWr [from Productivity 501]
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Have you ever started a day with some great ideas of everything you want to accomplish, but suddenly it is 6pm and you have nothing to show for your day? While it is probably impossible to keep this from ever happening, we can minimize it by doing something very simple: Do something important first...

AwayFind "The Airtight Inbox: Day in the Life of an Email Productivity Evangelist" [by our very own Jared Goralnick, on WebWorkerDaily] http://sn.im/inbox1
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Like many of you, email and social network messages have threatened to overwhelm me in recent years. Over time, I’ve developed a workflow and schedule that helps to keep me a bit saner. This workflow involves a number of tools and methods...

AwayFind Good presentation by Scott Hanselman on managing information overload, particularly for developers: http://vimeo.com/7680468 (at Oredev 2009)
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As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts ...

AwayFind Time Management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense and 6+ papers and is finished by 5:30pm http://bit.ly/C6qUD
Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and
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Learn extremely detailed tactics from Cal Newport, an MIT post-doc, on how he's written 3 books, a blog with over 50,000 readers/month, a half-dozen peer reviewed papers -- and still stops working at 5:30pm every day.

AwayFind Some GTD inbox processing tips from Kelly Forrister at davidco.com: http://bit.ly/o63J5
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If you're like most people, email is where much of your work lands in your personal and professional life. What used to happen in a face-to-face ...

AwayFind Resources you can use to overcome information overload from Nathan Zeldes: http://bit.ly/hXodk
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Insight and resources to help people cope with Information Overload and Email Overload, from Nathan Zeldes

AwayFind The ins and outs of 3 time management strategies http://bit.ly/2ILnAh (as tested by Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal)
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A review of three systems that claim to help users get organized and increase their productivity including Getting Things Done, The Pomodoro Technique and FranklinCovey's Focus.

AwayFind Getting to Inbox Zero: It Can be Done | Here are some good tips from Aaron Klein:
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I deal with a huge amount of e-mail every day…usually 300-400 messages. A lot of those are spam, and many of them are not messages that require my personal attention, but I still manage to get my inbox to zero about once a week.

AwayFind Basex Research: Information Overload - Now $900 Billion – What is Your Organization’s Exposure? http://bit.ly/LGvct
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According to our latest research Information Overload costs the U.S. economy a minimum of $900 billion per year in lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation. Despite its heft, this is a fairly ...

AwayFind One day a week take a vacation from your email http://bit.ly/2LI8cB Think you can do it?
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Considering how useful – revolutionary, even – email is as a communication tool, it can also be an incredible drain on productivity. If you’re

AwayFind The difference between information overload, then and now http://bit.ly/1GHUB3
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A friend in a US Hi-tech company once commented to me that all this business communication that is manifesting itself as email overload is nothing new: we also had this in the days before email, even if it used paper instead of computer screens.

AwayFind Some good suggestions for handling information overload by Michael J. Killian:
Mike Has Mojo - The Future of Realtime Communications: Suggestions and New Solutions For Information
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The massive wave of information available today on the Internet is overwhelming and it's killing productivity. Now that wave is extending into real-time communications. The MHM blog will track and filter ...























