Posted by Denham on November 07, 1999 at 09:59:17:

In Reply to: Information Overload posted by Chris Bennett on November 05, 1999 at 14:59:54:

Greetings Chris,

Information overload is a personal categorization not a fact. Communities of peactice or knowledge communities assist by acting as a quality filter. When the participants know your interests, desires, hopes, intentions, learning needs, they will look, serach, gather, bookmark, point and qualify on your behalf. Information seeking and evaluation is then distributed among all members.

KM can help you focus on "the difference that makes a difference", through dialog and open conversation you will gain a feel for where the vlaue lies, which connections are important, what lies on the periphery, who to approach for help and support. With focus the information overload issue changes to where are the best sources, who are the though leaders, what are the hot topics, what is new and interesting. This puts a different emphasis on dealing with information overload.

KM has taught me to make more use of relationships, to look to people rather than to rely on push technology, fancy information needs profiling for staying ahead. The problem with push is you only get what you ask for, what you 'need' is opinions and hinches of what may prove interesting, dialog to alter your ides of how you describe interesting and strong bonds so others will become your scouts. There are KM tools that claim to manage or help with information overload e.g. Grapevine or Automony, they impose filters and make it hard to discover what "you don't know you don't know".

• Autonomy: adapting to information overload

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• Re: Information Overload Reilly Atkinson 21:29:09 11/07/99 (4)
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