Handling Information Overload


This workshop has been offered several times, including May 2009, generously hosted by the University of Richmond.

 

AGENDA

8:30 - 9:30 am      Introductions

     Participants and their pages

     Concepts, history, tools, and variety

9:30 - 10:00 am Current tools, part 1

    * Email and calendar

    * Email Inbox Zero

10:00 - 10:15 am      break

10:15 - 12:00      Current tools, part 2

     * Browser

    * Social networking (old and new)

    * What else are you currently using?

12:00 - 1:00 pm     lunch

1:00 - 2:15  (Possibly) new tools

    * Visualization via tag clouds, the RSS reader, PIM sites, social bookmarks

    * What else do you recommend?

2:15 - 2:30     break

2:30 - 3:30      Full-scale methodologies

    * Getting Things Done

     * Attention economy

     * Social filtering

3:30 - 4:00     Plans and discussion