v3.co.uk Delivers 3-Day Summit on Information Overload
// November 13th, 2009 // Information Overload
On Tuesday, I was invited to be part of the expert panel discussion that launched the three-day summit on Information Overload run by v3.co.uk (previously known us vnnunet).
Given the nature of the audience, the summit as a whole has a technical emphasis and is sponsored by IBM. Having said that, there was a willingness on the panel I took part in to discuss the behavioural issues as well. If you have an hour to spare, you can watch the discussion here. For my part, I laid out how I felt organisations and individuals were being affected by the three main threads of information overload: email overload, digital interruptions at work and mobility (e.g. BlackBerry).
There is a wealth of other video debates and articles on v3′s site which is particularly rich in technical aspects of information overload such as storage and data centres. A comment article by Ian Williams, however, is a good expression of the view – which I share – that this is more about management than anything else.
