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Three tricks for staying abreast of changes in your project environment

The way that projects drift down from on-high is, for me at least, one of the most frustrating things about project management. Im not very good at simply doing what I am told. I like to know why a change should be made, what impact it will have,...

Tags: Choices, Foundations, Frameworks, Google, Information Overload, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Labor Shortage, Long Term Goals, Management, Management Skills, Practices, Project, Project Management, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Information overload: How vital data can get overlooked

Simplistic RecommendationThis article attracted me with its reference to "information overload", but the article does not deliver. Limiting reports and access to ad-hoc requests is not an answer. If you want reports to be consistent you must have consistent and singular data repositories. Then you need to...

Tags: danielendy@..., inconsistency, information consistency, information overload, it management

Discussion threads 2006-08-07

Information Overload - Part I: Too Many Options

This is the first of a two part series.Information overload is a condition that many, if not most users face on a daily basis. Email, phone calls, instant messages; this list is endless. While end users are generally not very skilled in bit literacy, developers shoulder much of the blame...

Tags: developer, e-mail

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Additional Resources

NGN Control Plane Overload and Its Management

This white paper examines the types of overload scenarios encountered within traditional networks and concludes that similar traffic behaviour, requiring overload management, will be required within Next Generation Networks NGNs. It looks at the principals of overload protection within real-time communications servers and the types of overload management methods that...

Tags: Distributed Computing, MultiService Forum, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2006-02-01

Overload 0.2 (Mobile)

Overload is a tactical board game for one or two players. The object is to cover the board with your pieces by setting chain reactions. Overload can be played between two human players, or you can play against your PalmPilot.

Tags: Mobile, Board, David Graham, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2001-02-27

Overload Monitor 3.2 (Windows)

Overload Monitor is monitoring and inventory utility that creates integrated time log of processes, memory changes, system, application and disk events. Overload Monitor will be useful to server administrators as well as to everybody whod like to know is it everything OK with his machine. Version 3.2 is a bug...

Tags: Monitor, Disk, Microsoft Windows, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2007-08-23

Extension Overload 5.9.9 (Mac)

Extension Overload is an extensions, control panels, control strip modules and contextual menus management application. It offers detail information of 5934 extensions and control panels, control strip modules and contextual menu items in your system. It also lets you activate and deactivate them, so that you can always easily tailor...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Control Panel, Extension, Teng Chou Ming

Software downloads 2002-09-24

Security Information Management - Achieve Good Governance Through Proactive Monitoring of IT Controls

Organizations trying to secure its IT environment and demonstrate compliance are getting bogged down with information overload. Information Security and IT Operations teams require a way to monitor and remediate threats proactively and efficiently with automated tools that can help lower compliance costs. The presenter of this webcast explains how...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Information Technology, Compliance, Monitoring, Security Information Management, Symantec Security Information Manager, Strategy, Security, Management

Webcasts

Images: Handling e-mail overload

Start-up's system to help manage e-mail overload borrows heavily from the virtual economies and currencies found in large-scale online games.

Tags: e-mail, game, online game

Image galleries 2007-02-28

ITU Telecom World

In this webcast, the presenter, HP Chairman and CEO, talks about new tools to manage the burgeoning information flow so people can find what they need, and avoid information overload.

Tags: International Telecommunications Union, Hewlett-Packard Co., Telephony, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Webcasts 2007-01-01

Overload 1.34 (Windows)

Overload is a turn-based logic game about setting off chains of explosions to capture all the opponents pieces. It can be played single-player against an excellent computer AI, or between two human players using either the hotseat method or network play. Difficulty goes up during each game of a series,...

Tags: Astatix Software, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-09-10

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Avoid E-mail Overload With Microsoft Office and Mission Control (Level 100)

For many people, "E-mail overload" has become an overwhelming issue and an obstacle to productivity. Mission Control, an educational corporation that designs principles and tools to increase personal and organizational productivity, shows the user how to take a closer look at the e-mail and provides a set of principles and...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications

Webcasts

DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response

High-profile web servers often become the victim of web server overload Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attacks. Motivations of such attacks range from technical challenge (e.g. script kiddies) to financial profit (e.g. blackmailing the web server's owner). This paper presents the DIADEM Firewall architecture that allows an ISP to protect its customers...

Tags: Web Server, Server, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Web Servers, Security, Internet

White papers 2005-12-14

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (Windows)

Information overload has met its match with Office OneNote 2007. Now its easy to grab, gather, and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, and notesall in one spot thats easy to access and simple to share. Stop searching for information across e-mail messages, paper notebooks, file folders, and printouts. And instead...

Tags: Information, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-07-11

When e-mail serves to lower productivity

Many moons ago, I wrote a blog about people who are e-mail impaired. Among the many infractions I listed, one was a personal pet peeve: The apparently uncontrollable urge by some people to "Reply All." If you're in a group of people who are all on one...

Tags: Worker, Reply, E-mail, Online Communications, Toni Bowers

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Sauce Reader 2.0.2 (Windows)

What is Sauce Reader and what does it do? As a full featured RSS and feed reader, Sauce Reader helps users gather, triage, consume and manage information from multiple sources by automatically monitoring specified sites (e.g. weblogs) for new or changed information. Sauce Reader keeps you in the loop, better...

Tags: Information, Synop, Sauce Reader, RSS, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-09-18

GuruNet 0.9.17 (Mac)

Beat information overload! Click on any word on your screen for instant facts from over 100 reliable reference works. Works in Word, E–Mail, Excel, Web pages  –  anywhere on your computer!

Tags: Apple Macintosh, GuruNet Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2004-11-20

Performance Comparison of Wormhole-Routing Priority Switch Architectures

Temporary nonuniform traffic patterns can severely degrade the performance of wormhole-routing multistage interconnection networks in multiprocessor systems. Temporary saturation trees build up inside the network under these traffic patterns that result in a temporary network overload with increased packet delay. Recently, enhanced switch box architectures and priority mechanisms were proposed...

Tags: Performance, Network, University Of Missouri, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Operator overloading in C# - How to overload "Default()" operator?

I have a class that generates reference numbers for a product. For some business logic scenario, I need to return a default reference number. This class is used just like a data type. So I am overloading operators such as boolean comparison etc.I found the default operator interesting. In numeric...

Tags: C#, Operator Overloading

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

UnWWWrap! 1.0 (Windows)

Need to monitor some web pages? Information overload driving you crazy? Want to extract data with minimum effort?? We needed a solution BADLY And we have developed UnWWWrap! a data collecting Internet Explorer plug-in and personal portal server

Tags: Internet Explorer Plug-in, Data, ExtraData Technologies, Portals, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-12-04