There are over three billion searches performed on Google each day. Over 50 million tweets are posted every day. We write more emails in a week at work, than we would have written letters in a lifetime 30 years ago. Information overload is inevitable.
“You can’t manage knowledge – nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied.”
Collison & Parcell
We’re unable to absorb every piece of information, therefore creating and managing an environment where knowledge and learning is shared, discovered and applied, and tailoring access to it is critical. This is eWorking.