If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. 

Great work. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Set up a social media dashboard with google apps for your listening, separate it from your work email and tools. Rethink your relationship with information, goals, and work and streamline accordingly. Why the number 52?   Good for you! 

Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment. The Pew Internet and American Life Project has issued its annual forecast of “ The Future of the Internet.”  It’s the human plight, I suppose.

There are all kinds of ways your nonprofit could use Animoto videos: an overview of your organization’s mission, your annual gala, for the launch of a new program, featuring staff at work in the office or at events, etc. Then click “Create Video&# and upload 15 photos for a 30-second video. That’s it!

How has connectedness changed the way you're working?  How do you manage the balance between the two modes of working? Tags: Information Coping Skills This is literally a page from Seth Godin's What Matters Now free ebook.  It's a compilation of ideas from 70 big thinkers about what to think about in 2010.    It's a quick read.

are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years. The Times article also points out the problem is not just individual skills or technological - but also cultural. Take a walk, get some real work done, or have a snack.

Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. The most important listening literacy skills are. Use Some Creative Thinking Skills. What else makes up listening literacy skills? 

Traynor's piece is a reflection on how network leadership is different from more traditional leadership skills for leading organizations.  He describes the discomfort that many of us feel when we shift from working in traditional environments (in organizations) to working within a network or working in the clouds. 

The paper also talks about the blurry lines between work and personal life. Tags: ROI Information Coping Skills Photo by Breakmould. Steve Rubel has a post pointing to an " Information Overload Calculator " from the research firm Basex that is estimating that information overload costs the U.S.