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The IORG Online Quarterly Event will take place on Dec. 9, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. EST.

Bring your thoughts, issues, and challenges on Information Overload to the Information Overload Research Group’s quarterly online event.  The event is open to everyone interested in the topic of Information Overload (at no charge, of course).

This will be a roundtable discussion around the topic “How Does Information Overload Impact You?” moderated by Jonathan Spira, IORG’s vice president of research and chief analyst at Basex.  He will be joined by Prof. Jonathan Ezor, director of the Institute for Business, Law and Technology at Touro.

The format of the meeting gives attendees an opportunity to talk about the personal impact of Information Overload.  Please bring your comments, thoughts, and potential solutions with you.

Everyone is welcome to speak.

Discussion Guidelines:

• 2-3 minute presentation
• State the problem(s)
• Indicate whether they are individual, group-, or organization-wide
• If possible, discuss how they are being addressed.

To register to the event click here.

IORG is a young organization, and we on its board of directors – Bill, Deva, Jonathan, Yoram and yours truly – are working hard to define the future course of action the organization should embark on in the next year or so. We have our ideas, but I’d like to hear yours.

So – let us know, in the comments to this post: what do you think we should do – keeping in mind that we must prioritize, given our limited resources at this point?

Do tell!

Our Information Overload conference no doubt pushed attendees above and beyond the bounds of overload.  As a public service here (as Tom Lehrer would say), I’ll review highlights.

Keynote
The keynote address (mine, actually) presented an overview of the problem, including costs, problem areas, and a few things we can do about the problem right now.

Just to review: (more…)

With the Information Overload Research Group launched and our first conference underway, it’s about time to get started with our blog.  We’ll be using this blog to provide updates on IORG progress and activities, share our thoughts about various information overload related topics, and provide opportunities for IORG members to share their own experience, research, and opinions. (more…)

So, again… writing a first post to a new blog. Small step and all that, but it’s really the quintessential “new beginning”…

First I’m supposed to tell you who I am, so here goes: I’m Nathan Zeldes, an Applied Physicist turned IT Engineer. I’m a Principal Engineer at Intel, and for the past 12 years I’ve been driving R&D in the field of Computing Productivity, that fascinating no man’s land where our nice, crisp computer technology meets the unpredictable, demanding, sometimes vexing yet always precious wetware that is our user base. When I’m not working, I actually manage to program computers for fun, and I have a collection of computing history; you can have a peek at http://www.nzeldes.com .

Information Overload has been my arch-enemy for more than a decade; I identified it as a problem as early as 1995, when Windows-based email first arrived in my workplace and enabled people to send messages with large attachments to large lists with the click of a button. (more…)