Email and World Wide Web have great attractions - but the sheer volume of information can become intimidating. Jan Wyllie offers some solutions. They want to converse with everybody.
People can become quickly overwhelmed.
Then, one of two things can happen. They either suffer from having to do an ever more onerous chore, or they stop replying to anyone but an inner core of associates. The key to changing information from being an unwanted overload to being a valuable resource is good information management practice. Most expert practitioners believe that classification and ordering add value to an information base. Simply by clustering information about similar topics, it is possible to see and reflect on threads of interpersonal communication from a higher perspective making it possible when required to rise above the confusion.