The Information Overload Research Group’s Overloaded 2012 event in San Francisco was fully successful!  Two dozen information overload crusaders from a diversity of domains – academic, industry, consulting, analyst and the public sector – came together, exchanged research results, viewpoints and opinions, and formed friendships and plans for future cooperation. We heard two interesting keynotes: Prof. David Levy of  the University of Washington spoke about “Educating for Acceleration and Overload”, and Jonathan Spira, IORG’s VP of research and CEO of Basex, shared his new research results on Information Overload. This un-conference model – an informal meeting of like minds – .. Read more

The Information Overload Research Group is organizing a private one-day gathering of people who are leading the battle against Information Overload from a diversity of domains such as business, academia, technology, journalism, psychology, and research.   If you share our passion, we’d love your attendance in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2012. For more details, and registration information, go to http://bit.ly/Ag7kzK . See you there!

Every year in October Basex, a New York based analyst company that is very active in the war on Info Overload, announces the observance of the worldwide Information Overload Awareness Day. This holiday, which is sponsored by our Information Overload Research Group, may not cure the problem that is exacting a growing toll on the effectiveness and sanity of knowledge workers worldwide, but it is a way to give some reach to the message that something needs to be done about it! This year the day is Thursday, Oct. 20, and I urge you to devote some time during that.. Read more

Five influential authors who have written books on information overload will come together in a “virtual literary salon” produced by IORG – the Information Overload Research Group. The event takes place on Monday, June 27, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT. We will be hosting five authors – Dave Crenshaw (author of The Myth of Multitasking), Daniel Forrester (author of Consider), Maggie Jackson (author of Distracted), William Powers (author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry), and Jonathan Spira (author of Overload! How Too Much Information Is Hazardous To Your Organization). Each author will discuss two questions – why they wrote their.. Read more

The Information Overload Research Group (IORG) is looking to expand its membership, and if you are an Information Overload practitioner or researcher I heartily encourage you to join our ranks. IORG started off in 2007 as an informal “Infomania Workshop” of some two dozen interested people, and this evolved into an official non-profit interest group that had launched in a face to face conference in NYC in mid-2008. This group comprises academics, industry people, consultants, analysts and others – people from diverse backgrounds that share a common passion to understand and help mitigate the information overload problem that is threatening.. Read more

October 20 is Information Overload Awareness Day, and we’re holding an online event at 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT. Attendance is free if you pledge not to multitask during the event! Basex, who organize this event every year, secured an impressive lineup of academics, analysts and industry practitioners who will speak about IO and what they’re doing about it. Yours truly will speak too, as president of the Information Overload Research Group. Register to attend at http://bit.ly/dxpWGN (use code IORGGuest).