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“Quiet Time” and “No Email Day” pilot data is in!
posted by Nathan Zeldes on June 14, 2008 at IT@Intel
Since the previous post in October there has been much interest in our two pilots aiming to reduce information overload; and I’ve responded to all of them with the quintessential engineering attitude of “we’ll have to wait until the data...
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“Quiet Time” on track – “No Email Day” is next!
posted by Nathan Zeldes on October 01, 2007 at IT@Intel
A month ago I reported the http://blogs.intel.com/it/2007/08/quiettimepilothaslaunched.php our attempt to push back on the problem of incessant distractions by assigning Tuesday mornings to uninterrupted work in full “offline” mode. We are watching the pilot closely, and although our next formal...
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“Quiet Time” pilot has launched!
posted by Nathan Zeldes on August 31, 2007 at IT@Intel
Our faithful readers will recall my promise to share our progress on piloting “Next Generation solutions” to the Information Overload problem, ones that go beyond training people to adopt voluntary behavior change. Well – the first pilot is underway! One...
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Infomania paper published – come and get it!
posted by Nathan Zeldes on August 14, 2007 at IT@Intel
In my previous posts I’ve hinted often at the body of research that we’ve used to understand the impact of the Information Overload problem. We summarized all this research as a White Paper that makes a strong case for taking...
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A look back…
posted by Nathan Zeldes on June 29, 2007 at IT@Intel
Recently my co-blogger David and I have been interviewed in CIO magazine about our Infomania solution project. You never know where such a thing may lead… years ago I was similarly interviewed by Fast Company magazine, and to my amazement...
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Personal coping strategies I
posted by Nathan Zeldes on June 26, 2007 at IT@Intel
It is interesting how people cope with Email Overload. We are a resilient species, and as pressures evolve, we evolve coping strategies, which vary from person to person. Over time you are bound to sight such strategies, reflected in the...
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Information Overload TNG: our Next Generation solution set
posted by Nathan Zeldes on April 18, 2007 at IT@Intel
A while back I wrote about our “First Generation” solutions to Infomania: those based on training people to adopt voluntary behavior change. And I told you that our experience is that their effect always lasts a year or two and...
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Preparing to do battle...
posted by Nathan Zeldes on January 25, 2007 at IT@Intel
Back from a trip to Redmond, where I participated in a wonderful workshop dedicated to Infomania. This was organized jointly by Dr. Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research, Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli of Haifa University, and yours truly. The intent was to...
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Information Overload VII: Distractions and Interruptions
posted by Nathan Zeldes on January 02, 2007 at IT@Intel
Happy new year, folks! Infomania consists of Messaging Overload and Distractions. So far I’ve discussed only the former in these posts; time to look at the latter, because the productivity damage caused by Distractions and Interruptions may be less obvious...
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Information Overload II: The Dark Side
posted by Nathan Zeldes on October 12, 2006 at IT@Intel
Back in 1994, Intel introduced its first Windows-based e-mail system to replace the previous text-only, mainframe-based system. Almost immediately, our smart employees realized that with this tool you could easily send mail to huge distribution lists, which they proceeded to...
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Information Overload
posted by Nathan Zeldes on October 09, 2006 at IT@Intel
What do you write about when posting to an exciting new blog for the first time? If you’re me, it’s a no-brainer: I will, today and often, write on my favorite enemy of over a decade, Information Overload. By “write”...
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