Filter more: Not everything deserves valuable real estate in your frontal cortex. Some things can be routed and stored for batch processing later on. Try to filter email that is routine and requires minimal attention. Make things like bills and coupons available when you need them, but out of your in-box and brain. Save these [...]
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Gathering data on attention will yield more than just a general sense of, “Oh, that’s cool.” Having insight into the way people think in your organization is an opportunity for better coaching, more effective motivation, correct job placement, and well-managed flowing projects.
Once you know where the attention is, you can begin to correct it.
The AttenionScape [...]
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Attention, like most things, can be measured in a variety of ways; how much, accuracy, level of precision, etc. Study is advancing very quickly in this area and has shown that most of us can’t pay attention longer than 40 minutes. Brains tend shut off and try something new at that point if they [...]
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This is part of a series that will explore what attention is, how we deal with it, and how it can be measured and focused. What is Attention?
Attention is a physical allotment of mental focus. Attention is limited as you only have so much; a zero sum game. Even attention you planned [...]
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“Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., are banding together to fight information overload”
That amount of money reported by a reputable paper like the Wall Street journal more than legitimizes study and action concerning attention. Yay for not being irrelevant!New trends will emerge as “attention resources” and “attention management” [...]
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L*A*H turned out to be an attempt at a text adventure/ health game. The author was trying to get see how many would respond to a weird email. Then convert them through a text adventure into working out turning those in stats in an RPG.
Cool, but I think I am [...]
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Previous post turned out not to be spam but some sort of unique text adventure. Currently, my brother and I are progressing through it at a pretty fast pace. Updates to follow. I hope I am not eaten by a grue.
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Some pretty amazing spam caught my attention this morning. I could not help but take a look. Personalization and relevance is how to get and keep someones attention. And if had any confidence that a robot or simulation existed that could help me become “awesome”, I would consider buying into it.
Hello… I [...]
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With the focus on showing advertisers where their key demographics spend time on-line, Google’s AdPlanner empowers companies to build more effective messages. AdPlanner doesn’t do anything new or revolutionary. Normal demographic info will be available (gender, age, income, etc) and
supplemented by outside consumer like the rest of the metric industry. Google Analytics data [...]
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Modern knowledge management strives to make information available when needed. In a service economy, with specialized reps in different departments, the need to access unfamiliar information is vital to providing quality customer service.
Companies like Zappos sell to a niche market (shoes) but have to differentiate themselves with an amazing reputation for customer service. [...]
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Todd McKinney
Eric Wagner
