Dear Readers,
Did you know that by 2012, the typical knowledge worker will receive hundreds of messages each day via e-mail, IM, text, and social networks? And that knowledge workers today lose 25% of the work day due to Information Overload?
Come as our guest via the Web on August 12 - Information Overload Awareness Day - to learn what you can do both for yourself and your organization as part of a world-wide effort to help decrease the impact of Information Overload . Use the code "EdgeGuest" for your guest ticket here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/379835097
The keynote presentation will feature Nathan Zeldes, Intel's former Information Overload czar, speaking about his work at Intel and will coincide with the release of the forthcoming Basex report, Intel's War Against Information Overload. All attendees will receive a complimentary executive summary of this groundbreaking report.
Companies need to focus on what can be done to lessen the impact of this problem right now. The purpose of Information Overload Awareness Day is to call attention to these problems and focus on what can be done to lessen its impact. It is centered around the Information Overload Awareness Inaugural Event – a half-day online gathering of senior executives and thought leaders from around the globe.
Join senior executives and thought leaders from across the globe on August 12. http://www.informationoverloadday.com/
In addition to the keynote from Nathan Zeldes, speakers will include:
- Noted authors Maggie Jackson (“Distracted”) and Mike Song (“The Hamster Revolution”)
- John Hagel, co-chairman, the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation
- Nathan Zeldes, President of the Information Overload Research Group (IORG)
- Anne-Katrin Neyer, School of Business and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
- A CIO from the U.S. Air Force
- Paul Silverman, Integra
- Christina Randle, The Effective Edge
- Jonathan Spira, chief analyst at Basex
- Executives from a variety of companies including Dow Jones and Morgan Stanley.
- A panel of Visionary Vendors with tools that help lower Information Overload including Matt Brezina, co-founder, Xobni, Deva Hazarika, CEO, ClearContext, Julie White, director of product management, Microsoft, and Tomer Shalit, CEO, Nordic River.
Your complimentary ticket also includes a copy of the Basex report "Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us" as well as access to archived sessions from the Inaugural Event, so, if you want to review some of the sessions afterwards, you can!
Over 500 people are expected to attend worldwide. I hope you will be one of them so please reserve your place now! http://www.eventbrite.com/event/379835097
I will be a guest speaker and hope to have you join us.
Warm regards,
Christina
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