Information Overload

After reposting this on my blog makes me rethink about overload now...

In your groups, I would ask you to discuss the following questions: There's so much to read/learn/think about in the Web 2.0 environment...how are you managing information overload? How are you getting (and staying?) organized in your highly connected world? What strategies have you discovered to help you manage information in effective ways?

 

I have to admit that online courses create information overload for me.

The worst part is that I can't keep up with postings and discussions. It consumes me completely - so much that I sometimes avoid logging into Vista. Of course, this is also bad as I end up with even more posts to read. Any way around this?

Organization though?

I use Google products to keep things together

In terms of Google products, I use Google Drive when I need to take notes off my iPad so that I can access them anywhere with the swipe of a finger. The Google Reader has been keeping me up to date with postings in the class as well as postings from other blogs I have been following. 

After exploring Flipboard and Pinterest, I've been looking through those more regularly and bookmarking ideas that I found interesting and reading articles of my taste.

I am using Diigo to see how that organizes my websites. We'll see how that goes.

I've actually stopped using Diigo as I haven't found a good use for it as I didn't like having to log-in to another website to access my bookmarks that are already favourited on my browser. I will try Google Chrome's bookmarking instead as it seems more accessible.
Twitter is also an overload for me although I do like the stuff I come across when I do sit down to look. 

I finally removed some people that I found tweeted too much for me to take in and created a list for them. This was a huge relief for me. Having a list makes it much easier to digest certain people in my PLN. This way, I can check out their posts more leisurely and that helps me keep organized with the other tweets.
I like to file everything into folders when I get the opportunity - which is the one thing I actually dislike about Gmail (no folders)

I try to find 1 application out of many to use and stick with it for as long as I can.

I also like my dropbox because it I can make all sorts of folders <3