Social media has this in common with trick-or-treaters: Anyone could be on the other side of that door. Sometimes, you need to turn off the lights and keep the door closed.
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The impact of information on our lives and ways to cop with it
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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation View more presentations from Beth Kanter Yesterday, I did a free NTEN Webinar called "The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload" based on my feature article in the... 
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March 26, 11:14 AM
Non-profits can help their constituents sort through the clutter. Discipline is needed! Delete the scoop?
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Some new books coming out on the distraction issue, one that takes a technologist approach (Alex Pang). But always good to understand the thought leaders of this space - including Howard Rheingold and Linda Stone 
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May 24, 12:20 PM
Linda Stone was one of the inspirations for infotention and I quote her heavily in Net Smart. Delete the scoop?
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If you need to de-stress, you could add some cardio, try meditation — or move to Hawaii. Delete the scoop?
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21habit.com is a simple tool that helps you make or break habits. Pick a habit you want to make or break. Check-in every day for 21 days. Enjoy your success.
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A clear head produces the best insights. But it's a challenge to take time off in the midst of a busy day to rest your brain. Here are three easy ways to build breaks into your day:Meditate on... Delete the scoop?
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TAGtivate is a startup that simplifies content browsing on the world wide web. Browse and share the content you want by taking advantage of the power of hash... Via Robin Good 
Lori Marie Cuene's curator insight,
January 30, 6:08 PM
Great way to streamline your feeds,allowing you to more easily focus on those relationships you really want to nurture and build! Thanks for sharing this!! 
Beth Kanter's comment,
January 30, 9:54 PM
Okay, was all excited thinking I could sign up and play with the tool, but looks they haven't launched yet...
Robin Good's comment,
January 31, 2:19 AM
Hi Beth, you are right. I understand. Go get excited though with Scoopweb, I think you will truly enjoy that one.
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Research shows that obstacles boost your brainpower.
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An intelligent constraint informs creative action by outlining the "sandbox" within which people can play and guides that action not just by pointing out what to pursue but perhaps more importantly what to ignore. The pressing question for managers here is this: Are constraints preventing or propelling your innovation efforts? There is only one right answer. Delete the scoop?
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Contradictory to what you might think, productivity and creativity may ruin your life if you sacrifice the things that fill you with strength. Delete the scoop?
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"The process of combining more primitive pieces of information to create something more meaningful is a crucial aspect both of learning and of consciousness and is one of the defining features of human experience. Once we have reached adulthood, we have decades of intensive learning behind us, where the discovery of thousands of useful combinations of features, as well as combinations of combinations and so on, has collectively generated an amazingly rich, hierarchical model of the world. Inside us is also written a multitude of mini strategies about how to direct our attention in order to maximize further learning. We can allow our attention to roam anywhere around us and glean interesting new clues about any facet of our local environment, to compare and potentially add to our extensive internal model." Via Howard Rheingold 
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January 30, 11:49 AM
What makes the difference, Bor argues, is a concept called chunking, which allows us to hack the limits of our working memory — a kind of cognitive compression mechanism wherein we parse information into chunks that are more memorable and easier to process than the seemingly random bits of which they’re composed.
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February 6, 10:58 AM
It is the process of combining various pieces of information to create something new and more meaningful - that is our learning process. As we combine information from one person or site, and add the thoughts of someone else, that we generate new ideas or expressions of those combined thoughts. Delete the scoop?
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An open letter to the Moleskine set.
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I disagree with this. I use both methods for note taking, but taking handwritten notes help me because I get another chance to reflect on what was discussed. Delete the scoop?
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If you want to become more organized in the New Year, a long list of tasks isn't going to help. Instead try these three targeted lists.Get the latest...
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The blog for the contemplative computing project, which documents efforts to create technologies and interactions that don't distract users and fracture their attention, but promote concentration and mindfulness.
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This is the Alex Soo Jung-Kim's blog. He is the author of the forthcoming book called "The Distraction Addiction." He uses the term: Contemplative computing. This may sound like an oxymoron, but it's really quite simple. It's about how to use information technologies and social media so they're not endlessly distracting and demanding, but instead help us be more mindful, focused and creative. Here's 2011 talk and good introduction to the project and its big ideas. A more recent Guardian post that puts it more in context of this mindful online movement http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/10/conscious-computing-twitter-facebook-google Delete the scoop?
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Twitter, Facebook, Google… we know the internet is driving us to distraction. But could sitting at your computer actually calm you down? Oliver Burkeman investigates the slow web movement
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Great piece. Love the idea of "calming technology" This is the question motivating the embryonic movement known variously as "calming technology", "the slow web", "conscious computing" or (Pang's preferred term) "contemplative computing". Its members hope that we might be able to perform a sneaky bit of jujitsu on the devices that dominate our lives: to turn the agents of distraction into agents of serenity. Their inventions so far include wearable sensors that deliver rewards ("calm points") for breathing well while you work, developed by Stanford University's calming technology laboratory; iPad apps to help you meditate yourself into a state of super-focused concentration; software that lets friends decide collectively to disable their smartphonesfor the duration of a restaurant meal; and scores of pieces of "zenware" designed to block distractions, with names such as Isolator andStayFocusd and Shroud and Turn Off The Lights. I wrote most of this article using OmmWriter, which filled my screen with a wintry backdrop of bare trees and my headphones with the hypnotic clanking of old railway engines. I also used f.lux, which changed the glare of my screen to yellowy evening light, precisely timed to synchronise with the sunset outside. Delete the scoop?
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Toilet paper still can’t be digitized, but these days two-ply may be the only printed matter still welcome in the bathroom. A place for your iPad when you’re on the pot.
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This isn't as bad as checking your mobile phone in the bathroom, but another piece of evidence that the Internet is continuing to have a dramatic impact on our daily lives. More research on bathroom and technology: Plus, a 2011 survey by Staples Advantage, a division of the office-supply giant, found that 35% of tablet owners brought their tablets into the bathroom. That’s more than those who brought them into restaurants (30%), though not as much as those who brought them into the bedroom (78%). Either way, Staples exec Ed Ludwigson said the surveys showed that tablets “offer fantastic convenience.” Of course, if iPad fans don’t want to pay for a $100 bathroom stand, they have alternatives. On Apple and furniture-related message boards, iPad users boast of their homemade solutions for bathroom reading. Said one member of the MacRumors.com community: “I hot glued some small pieces of wood together to make a stand that holds the iPad at the perfect angle.” Delete the scoop?
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About six years ago, I started collecting any information I could find about the daily routines of writers, artists, and other creative people—first for a blog that I ran for a couple of years, and then for a book that, I'm pleased...
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Given how much time I've spent reading and thinking about artists' schedules and working habits, you might expect that I would have some insight into what makes for an ideal daily routine. Is there some combination of sleep, work, exercise, coffee, and focused head-scratching or brow-furrowing that is most likely to lead to creative breakthroughs? Or, at the very least, are there some basic guidelines that will stave off blocks and guarantee a minimum level of intellectual output? Short answer: no, not really. The one lesson of the book is that there is no one way—the rituals and habits that helped Artist A create a masterpiece would never work for Artist B; and, actually, they might not even work for Artist A for very long. Delete the scoop?
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Some basic getting stuff done advice. Delete the scoop?
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Multi-tasking can be done effectively if it involves simple tasks that operate on completely different channels in our brain. For example, listening to the news while folding laundry. Via Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold's curator insight,
March 27, 10:38 PM
"Task-layering" appears to be a kind of multi-tasking that works -- as opposed to the kind that degrades performance on each of the tasks we try to accomplish simultaneously. 
Peter Skillen's curator insight,
April 2, 7:52 AM
What I find interesting is the work Benjamin Bergen describes in Louder Than Words. http://www.louderthanwordsbook.com/ People often ask can we multitask as if there is a 'yes' or 'no' answer. Clearly, situations matter. Bergen points to research that suggests if we visualize or imagine certain activities - like hitting a baseball - the same regions of the brain are activated and engaged as if we were actually hitting that baseball. So even though we might expect the visual region to light up because we are 'seeing' something in our mind's eye, it is actually a motor region that is engaged. This, therefore, impacts our multitasking abilities for another 'motor' task. --> I love the rich texture of these ideas. Delete the scoop?
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Learn how to send personalized email messages in bulk using mail merge in Gmail. You can even send rich HTML emails with attachments as well. Delete the scoop?
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February 6, 8:37 PM
Boomerang has saved my life .... I use it to schedule emails and it is extremely useful.
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Your time is limited. This is a basic fact we all know, but why are there some people in the world who manage to get their things done quickly and efficiently? Delete the scoop?
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On lots of platforms? You're probably creating mediocre content. Delete the scoop?
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“The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts,” wrote James Webb Young in his famous 1939 5-step technique for creative problem-solving, “becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.”But just how does one acquire those vital cognitive customs? That’s precisely what science writer Maria Konnikova explores inMastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (UK; public library) — an effort to reverse-engineer Holmes’s methodology into actionable insights that help develop “habits of thought that will allow you to engage mindfully with yourself and your world as a matter of course.” Via Howard Rheingold 
Wendi Pillars's curator insight,
January 27, 9:43 AM
Read this for thought-provoking insights...but check out the rest of the sight, too! 
Tom Hood's curator insight,
March 28, 7:26 AM
Looks like another book to add to my ever-growing reading list. I often use the "crime map" metaphor when trying to linke patterns, people, and trends for significance. Also fits with our philosophy of "linking and leveraging". Delete the scoop?
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Think big and follow these tips to make the most of your next brainstorming session.
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Some useful tips for brainstorming sessions. Delete the scoop?
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How does our brain organize the visual information that our eyes capture? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, used computational models of brain imaging data to answer this question and arrived at what they call “continuous semantic space” – a notion which serves as the basis for the first interactive maps showing how the brain categorizes what we see.The data on which the maps are based was collected while the subjects watched movie clips. Brain activity was recorded via functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), a type of MRI that measures brain activity by detecting related changes in blood flow. In order to find the correlations in the data collected, the researchers used a type of analysis known as regularized linear regression... Via Lauren Moss
Beth Kanter's insight:
Good points to make about why going visual is important 
Pedro Barbosa's curator insight,
December 28, 2012 7:53 AM
Excellent articple about neuroscience - visual mapping. Understanding our minds is important on all types of management tasks;)
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