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A consortium of IT companies, legal firms and other organisations has launched a web site designed to help UK businesses better understand the risks associated with the growth of information. InfoRiskAwareness provides information such as news, blogs, Q&As, whitepapers and newsletters to help promote ‘a better understanding of the risks associated with electronic information’. Craig Carpenter, …

Prioritizing daily tasks is key to successful time management. When you prioritize, you make sure you accomplish the most important tasks first. Make time management a habit, and your stress level (and your boss’s!) will thank you. Follow this process: 1. Start with a master list. Write down every single task, both mundane and critical, that …

North Carolina-based Buckner Steel Erection, with over 30 superintendents overseeing more than 400 employees, offers steel erection services, rigging and crane rental, helping to build everything from hotels to arenas to hotels. Buckner uses approximately 145 BlackBerry Curves with AboutTime Technologies’ mobile time management application to handle all time tracking in the field, replacing a solution …

Because Twitter is gaining traction as a business tool, there are a large number of people who are tweeting on behalf of a company or brand. Businesses might use Twitter as a market research tool, a brand sentiment barometer, or as a means of communicating with customers. Some of the on behalf of business include sharing the individual’s name, position with the company, and a little bit of his or her …

In a speech to university graduates over the weekend, President Obama described some of the problems we face with information overload. That the US President struggles with this despite his army of secretaries, assistants and advisors shows just how big the task has become for the rest of us. …

Information overload overwhelms nearly half of Canadian … Daily corporate correspondence, e-mail, voicemail, SMS messages, online video, business stats and graphs — the typical Canadian executive is deluged by a sea of information, according to recent survey. …

The recruitment industry possibly more than any other service business has been transformed by the advent of the internet and email communication. This makes it all the more challenging to get the best out of very powerful communications technology without feeling at times enslaved by it. Challenges unique to the recruitment industry include the frequent need to be in contact with candidates outside …

In a commencement address to new graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, President Obama emphasized the importance of education in an economy where a high school diploma is no longer enough. And with that in mind, he then proceeded to call out a new enemy of the state: gadgets that have turned information into a “distraction” that hurts democracy. …

‘History is written by the victors’ is a phrase with which most of us are familiar. It may have been coined by Winston Churchill, though opinion on the matter varies, but the relevant point here is that written history was once immutable and permanent, whoever penned it. Back in the days when information was stored on flattened sheets of mashed up trees, the written word was all powerful and in most …

At a recent speech at Hampton University, President Obama had this to say about our web 2.0 information age: With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, ‘ none of which I know how to work ‘ information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. There is simply no worse argument for or against something …