Curated Series - Information Overload Tips, Stats and Wisdom

As well as building the Unified Inbox software product , we are currently curating three Twitter series.  If you would like to receive these daily - please follow us on Twitter:

• Tips for dealing with information and email overload
• Stats - all the numbers you ever wanted to see about email, internet and information
• Wisdom - because sometimes in amongst the information overload, we all need to take a step back and reflect. 

Tips

• Tip 19: "Your Inbox Is Full: Managing Email Overload" http://cot.ag/fFadcp  Discussion of various approaches to managing problem.
• Tip 20: "There is Hope! 7 Tips to Combat Social Media Information Overload" http://cot.ag/dHCrJm  We like number 1.
• Tip 21: "Email overload - Spring clean you inbox to save yourself time" http://cot.ag/kp7LD1  Advice to stop email piling up like dirty dishes
• Tip 22: "Cut Down on Email Overload" http://cot.ag/jRmLGG  Short yet sweet post, includes adding "no reply needed" to signature line.
• Tip 23: "You can avoid email overload" http://cot.ag/jxvAwg  3 useful tips.
• Tip 24: "Management advice: Coping with 'information overload" http://cot.ag/hX0xX8  including "don't overload other people".
• Tip 25: "Don’t Suck at Email" http://cot.ag/jqVmVx  We agree :)
• Tip 26: "Inbox Zeroer" http://cot.ag/iVSOSi  Innovative way of looking at the issues.
• Tip 27: "10 Ways To Beat Email Overload" http://cot.ag/mPIOZN  Cartoon included.
• Tip 28: "Exercize your EQ with email" http://cot.ag/igCpyn 
• Tip 29: "Recovering from information overload" http://cot.ag/fofekE 

Stats

• Stats 1: 5.3 average hours per week lost by knowledge workers waiting for information. http://cot.ag/iNC5Dr 
• Stats 2: 294 billion email messages are sent every day. http://cot.ag/iBFZ9C 
• Stats 3: 90% of the total 294 billion emails sent daily are thought to be spam or viruses. http://cot.ag/iBFZ9C 
• Stats 4: there are 2.4 billion email accounts in existance. http://cot.ag/kh5Fii 
• Stats 5: the typical corporate user sends and receives 110 messages daily. http://cot.ag/kh5Fii 
• Stats 6: reading and processing just 100 emails per day can occupy half a workers day. http://cot.ag/k2nbd0 
• Stats 7: 48.5% of workers are connected to the web: "from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed" http://cot.ag/lNT2bY 
• Stats 8: information overload cost US economy $900 billion per year in lower productivity and throttled innovation. http://cot.ag/kyBYe3 
• Stats 9: 76.7% of respondents read email and respond evenings and weekends. http://cot.ag/kDZ5rl 

Wisdom

• Wisdom 1: "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin.
• Wisdom 2: "See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little." Pope John XXIII
• Wisdom 3: "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough" Albert Einstein.
• Wisdom 4: "Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress". Mahatma Gandhi
• Wisdom 5: "Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, fail better." Samuel Beckett.
• Wisdom 6: "All things are difficult before they are easy." Thomas Fuller.