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Information Coping Skills
1. Information Coping Skills
Managing Information Overload
Beth Kanter, Visiting Scholar Packard Foundation
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8. How does information overload
make you feel?
What causes your information
overload?
What works or what doesn't in
managing your information
overload?
9. Know when to turn the damn
computer off and take a walk
12. Process/Task List Longer five
minutes
Reply
Follow Up
Schedule
Process/ Do Now Forward
Delegate
Archive Folder
Filter/Rules
Junk
Delete Don’t Need it later
Unsubscribe
Don’t Read Every Word, Scan and Triage First
14. 1. Reply all is usually a bad idea.
2. If you’re cc’d, there’s no need to reply.
3. A short, thoughtful email gets a quicker
response. Long emails are read last.
4. Thank you. Always lovely. Sometimes not
necessary.