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Dealing with information overload

Paul Chin has written an article on information overload, from the perspective of managing intranets. To quote:

Have we crossed the line from productivity to inefficiency by the sheer amount of information that we put into our intranets? And I'm not even talking about the extraneous content (content that should never make it onto the intranet to begin with) I'm talking about actual usable content. In an attempt to provide as much information to our users, in as wide a range of topics as possible, have we actually done everyone a disservice by putting in more content than any one person can absorb? But herein lies the point: no one is meant to.

Posted by jamesr on July 21, 2005 11:31 AM
Categories: Content management, Intranets