Thursday, June 2, 2011

Curated Series - Information Overload Tips, Stats and Wisdom

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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

Statistics
  • It takes five minutes to get back on track after a 30 second interruption. http://cot.ag/k2nbd0
  • The number of e-mail messages sent is rising dramatically -- by some estimates, by more than 20% a year http://cot.ag/lEvfQx
  • 62.5% wish they could filter out the flood of data. http://cot.ag/kDZ5rl
  • The use - and, particularly, the misuse - of email costs businesses up to $16,000 per employee per year. http://cot.ag/lcrruQ
  • Research shows that 70% of employees react to emails within 6 seconds of them arriving. http://cot.ag/jy7ttl
  • Worldwide, e-mails are expected to reach 507 billion per day by 2013. http://cot.ag/kEDwb4
  • Almost one in five emails was copied unnecessarily to staff members other than the main recipient. http://cot.ag/lcrruQ
  • 41.4% of respondents miss important news because of overload. http://cot.ag/kDZ5rl
  • The average business executive spends two hours a day on e-mail. http://cot.ag/jJbI3v

Wisdom

  • Student says " I am very discouraged. What should I do?" Master says, "encourage others. -  Zen Proverb
  • Water and words... Easy to pour impossible to recover. - Chinese Proverb
  • You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - Leo Aikman

 

 

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