Information overload: questions

After first steps in our research on information overload things get a bit more clear for me: it seems that it’s not about information overload, but our practices of dealing with information. Questions I find particularly interesting:

• How do you manage multitasking? Strategies, tips and tricks to handle multiple processes…
• How do you manage working with multiple sources needed for a task? Especially when there are a lot of them and they are in different formats (emails, files, paper documents, IM talks, coffee-table discussions).
• How do you manage awareness? How do you monitor multiple sources of information that could be useful in the future? (I use weblogs :)

Would be nice to find time to describe my own practices regarding those :)

Funny enough, those questions correspond with process, artefact and awareness categories from my thinking on PKM purposes and practices.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/02/23.html#a1505; comments are here.

• Personal KM and self-organisation
• A bit of reflection on personal information management
• 3 KMs and 4 SMs

Tagged as: information overload, personal knowledge management