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A Simple Approach to Managing Information Overload

September 18th, 2009 (9:00am) Amber Riviere 7 Comments

information wordleWe all have to follow never-ending streams of information to varying degrees. Small business owners and web workers have to keep their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in their markets and with their customers and clients. Writers and bloggers read for inspiration and to follow the latest trends.
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Are You an Information Junkie?

May 6th, 2009 (11:00am) Dawn Foster 12 Comments

Hi, my name is Dawn, and I am an information junkie.

Yahoo Pipes Information MonitoringI love learning new things and sharing them with others, and you can see this trend by looking back across my posts here on WebWorkerDaily and elsewhere. You’ll see many posts focused on finding and consuming information. As I write this blog post, I’m sitting in a coffee shop getting ready for a meeting with someone who has agreed to spend some time demoing Yahoo Query Language (YQL) to help me learn even more techniques to feed my information habit.

I’m also an avid Twitter user, primarily because it is a quick way to consume a variety of information, from keeping up with personal friends to discovering new tools to little nuggets of useful information. Read the rest of this entry »

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