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Summify – the answer to information overload?

Jane Hart

Information overload? Summify is a service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks, and delivers it by email and on the web. No – it’s a case of filter failure, said Clay Shirky. So is Summify, which has just launched, a possible solution?

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Tips To Help Develop Employee’s Workplace Technology Skills

IT Training Department Blog

Quality technical training must be well thought out and executed purposefully, not informally. When training is too informal, and employees are thrown into the job, there’s a good chance they’ll be pretty unhappy and likely to leave. An enterprise social network is as much of an online learning platform as anything else.

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Digital Literacy in the Age of Information: Ensuring Credible Content

Kitaboo

Literacy is often regarded as a puzzle piece that is difficult to fit into the evolving jigsaws of information dissemination. As the channels of information spread grew multifold and information access was more digitalized, ‘ digital literacy ‘ became the norm. Conclusion What is Digital Literacy?

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How to Navigate Social Media (and Avoid Information Overload)

Rapid eLearning

For example, if you build rapid elearning courses with Articulate products there are all sorts of resources available to you: Articulate’s Facebook page keeps you up-to-date on news and information. It’s a more personal connection to the network and you can stay on top of the cool tutorials we create with Screenr. So I tune them out.

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Interesting Information via eLearning Learning

Tony Karrer

Again, I'll be curious to see if people find patterns in this information. Also interesting topics: Cognitive , Effectiveness , LCMS , Social Network , iPhone , Director. David Fair - Learning Journeys Talk to him about graphics ( PNG , JPG ) and staying organized ( Tagging , Information Overload ).

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Social Networking, Performance Problems, Multitasking, & Research

Big Dog, Little Dog

Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - c/net. When people do their work only in the "interstices of their mind-wandering," with crumbs of attention rationed out among many competing tasks, their culture may gain in information, but it will surely weaken in wisdom.

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What is really changing in the way we learn as a result of new technologies?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

However, they all talk about the consequences of the fact that information is now freely available on the internet. "It Will learning disappear and turn into knowing where and how to access information whenever you need it? Mirjam Neelen emphasizes the need to learn how to learn in this world of information overload.