Each year the amount of information created in the enterprise, paper and digital combined, grows faster than 65%.
Non-productive information work, such as reformatting documents or reentering documents into computers, consumed more than $1.5 trillion in U.S. salaries last year.
Survey respondents spend as much as 26% of their time trying to manage information overload.
Respondents split their time evenly between dealing with paper and digital information, but 71% prefer to deal with digital information.
The amount of time U.S. information workers spent last year managing paper-driven information overload cost $460 billion in salaries.
Reducing the time wasted dealing with information overload by 15% could save a company with 500 employees more than $2 million a year.
Many of us spend most of our working hours in offices that were designed in the 1970’s. But we don’t need to. Check out officesnapshots.com and laze away a while checking out the digs of all your favourite companies. The tech companies, advertising firms, innovation groups and every stripe in-between.
Dream and enjoy. And don’t forget to check out the nutrition stations, meeting rooms and fun spaces.
While taking a stroll around Deer Lake we saw a number of people enjoying this quiet jewel in the middle of Burnaby. It’s a beautiful place to come an spend an hour in a busy day.
David Bergman used a Gigapan Imager to take a 200 photos of the inauguration. The Gigapan service stiches the images together to create an extremely large image (this one is 1,474 megapixels).
I made this Gigapan image from the north press platform during President Obama’s inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. It’s made up of 220 images and the final image size is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels.
Ah, the wonder’s of smartphones, internet in your pocket and a really, really big dead spot.
I was in the Skytrain station (Granville) a few days ago and noticed all the Telus ads. New smartphones, Blackberrys and all kinds cell phones. Stay in touch, access the internet etc, etc. Kinda makes me want to visit my local Telus dealer to get something new.
But wait!
Telus doesn’t have any service in the underground Skytrain stations in Vancouver. Hasn’t had it ever that I can remember and I’ve been a Telus customer for at least 15 years. I see lots of people using their phones – I wonder who they are with? Definitely not with Telus or Bell, our local CDMA carriers.
Why is that Telus can’t get it together and get the appropriate antenna system installed in the tunnel? Not enough high-paying business customers? They seemed to be able to do it for the tunnel by the PNE. Well, the worlds a-changin, and more and more of those high-paying business customers are moving transit (ie. Skytrain).
What a joke, advertising your phones and the cool ($$) services in a place that has no signal.
I think Telus marketing needs to have a heart to heart with Telus engineering and infrastructure delivery.
I’m always amazed at those that can get things done and still have time to relax and enjoy life. Timothy Ferriss has written a book called the ”The 4-Hour Workweek”. This is a book that I am putting on the top of my reading list.
Then comes the “call to action” – implement some of these techniques in my everyday life.
The following is a short interview with Veronica Belmont on Mahalo Daily.
We have all received new or upgraded software or new gadgets and sometimes are totally lost in the user guide. Take a look at this User Guide for the switch to dial telephones. Now this is a direct and clear user guide.
For the more advanced user check out the first 2-3 minutes of this one. And you thought a stylus for your PDA/Smartphone was a recent invention.
