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Battling Information Overload for Information Professionals, Session 1:
Information Professional Skills to Help You Through
| Presenter: | Sarah Houghton-Jan, Digital Futures Manager, San José Public Library |
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| Date: | 4 August 2010 | |
| Time: | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET | |
| Price: | No Charge for SLA Members | |
Registration closed - program replay to be posted by 11 August |
Seminar Description
We all know what information overload is but so few of us know how to manage it so it doesn't manage us! Learn quick and easy principles for dealing with information overload, including organization skills, how to filter your input, time management, and stress management. You'll learn how to manage your email, RSS feeds, social networks, IM, SMS, telephone, and more. Come away with a plan for tackling your own virtual or physical pile of overload.
Learn how to use your already well-developed information professional skills in the great battle against information overload. Discover key techniques to manage your time and stress levels, filter inputs, draw boundaries between work and home life, and organize your incoming and saved information.
Who Should Attend?
Information professionals in any type of organization looking for ways to better organize all of the information, messages, articles, and influx of other data in their lives.
Critical Learning Questions
- How can you use your information professional's skills to tackle information overload professionally and personally?
- How can you manage your time, stress levels, and all of the bits and bytes flowing all around you?
- How can you organize your information flow to get what's most important to you?
- What technologies can you use to help you filter, analyze, and organize your information?
- What tips are there for managing email, instant messages, and social networking sites effectively?
- How can you keep you in the profession without succumbing to the influx of 'too much' information?
- How can you help others in your organization battle information overload successfully?
Notes
Instructions for accessing the Webcast will be e-mailed to you 2 to 3 business days prior to the event. Your registration is for one computer and one site only. You can host as many people as you like, so be sure to invite your colleagues to learn with you!
* Note: Participants registration limited to 50
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Sarah Houghton-Jan is the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library. Sarah was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and is active in the Library and Information Technology Association. She is a well-traveled consultant, speaker, and technology instructor and has been published widely in both library and technology publications. Sarah also writes the award-winning blog about library technology issues and resources, Librarian In Black.
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