Getting Smart: Ways to Improve Your Intellectual Performance  

Today's information developers are often confused by rapidly evolving technology and overwhelmed by the volumes of information they face each day. Although they might well feel that their mental faculties are taxed to the limit, research in cognitive psychology provides new strategies for coping in today's intellectually demanding environment. The purpose of this workshop is to give information developers insight into their intellectual strengths and to introduce strategies that can help them improve their intellectual performance.

Flanders, Alicia. STC Proceedings (1993). Articles>Information Design>Technology>Cognitive Psychology

Information Technology: Trojan Horse of Information Overload

Information technology has become the Trojan Horse of information overload. It has been invited into the organization as some magical gift that will bring greater efficiency and reduced cost. Once inside, it feeds on resources and spews out unimaginable quantities of low quality data. Information technology has become the problem. The solution is to invest in people again.

McGovern, Gerry. New Thinking (2002). Articles>Technology>Information Design>Content Management