How to stay informed while avoiding the Attention Crash; on digital communications.(Digital)

Advertising Age, May, 2008 by Rubel, Steve

Byline: Steve Rubel

One of the most important skills executives need today is the know-how to manage and harness their personal information flow.

The Attention Crash is a crisis in global business that is getting worse every day. By 2009, the Radicati Group predicts that we'll spend 41% of our time managing e-mail. Now add to that the IMs, documents, Facebook pokes, RSS feeds, Twitter tweets and text messages coming at us, and we're officially way oversubscribed.

Unfortunately, the problem will not abate. Human attention is finite. It doesn't scale. Worse, the pace of change today is so rapid there's a huge need to stay digitally savvy. The key is in wrangling your information flow. Here are three of my best tips.

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