@ CMPros Fall Summit
Did you ever imagine what it would feel like if you tried to take a sip from a 3.5 bar fire hydrant? No? Do you think it would hurt? Well it would feel like having a grown man jump on you lower lip with his full weight. Don’t like it? Then why do you try it day in, day out, googling the Internet?
Information overload is a real problem. Either we know we get too much information, e.g. because you have to get rid of over 1000 emails when you return from you one week holiday. Or, even worse, we do not see the information overload anymore. We ignore the 1 gazillion hits a typical Google search provides us. We focus on the first 10 hits and trust Google to come up with the best answer.
But how many times a day do you have the feeling you still cannot find the information that you are looking for? That it is hiding in the cloud? Or you see all the data, but it is incomparable? You just are unable to connect the left to the right?
We really are like children when it comes to handling and managing information. We sip from the fire hydrant every day. It is about time that we grow up, that we handle information a little bit more structured.
At the CM Pros Fall Summit in Boston we started developing a content lifecycle to give an overview of what is involved when you want to handle information in a better way. We started out with Bob Boiko and Tony White who both created the setting for developing lifecycles. Then we sketched, explained and listened, improved, explained and listened on our posters in small groups. In the end we came up with some interesting ideas and we are now continuing our discussion on the web.
If you are a regular visitor of this blog, it is not hard to recognize the poster from the group I had the pleasure of participating in. Virtual coffee and cake for whoever makes the link!
