Keeping Up with the World of Information
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If you feel inundated with information and don't know how you are going to keep up, then this article is for you. We list here some recommendations for sources of information and techniques for filtering through them so you are not buried in information. Feel free to add your recommendations or give us feedback on what you think works.

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Dealing with the amount of information available today can be daunting. But it is essential for us as professionals - especially because we deal in information. To be honest, some of us do not read enough.

Recommended RSS Feeds

I subscribe to less than a dozen RSS feeds and I'm in the process of re-evaluating my list. I'm not dealing with many listservs anymore - they seem to be dominated by consultants advertising either their expertise or their events. I still listen to the STC-single-sourcing SIG, but they're in the midst of re-inventing themselves. Here are the business RSS feeds ones I subscribe to:


And of course I read KeyContent.org, which also displays feeds from

So indirectly, I read those too. At least I skim them.

(Post your recommendations here.)


Techniques

In other words, I mostly subscribe to magazines, not individual blogs. But I do searches on Technorati every day so I come up with news from blogs, I just don't have RSS feeds from them. There are a ton of cool blogs out there but who can read them all. There's a list of over a hundred of them on KeyContent.org.

I spend the first 45 mins each day reading checking some or all of them. Then at lunch I check Google-News and Wikipedia or both for a brief view of the entire world. I know I should read more. There's a ton of stuff to read.

(Post your recommendations here.)






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Contributors to this page: Bill Albing .
Page last modified on Monday, October 08, 2007 07:11:09 pm EDT by Bill Albing.

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