Information Overload

[Tom Carlson]

With the Internet comes Information Overload. How do others handle the challenge of keeping our knowledge base up to date?

This morning along comes the Flower Chat Bulletin with information that I feel compelled to read/study.

BUT, I have to get on with making today get started smoothly and cannot allow any diversion.

There is so much information sent to us every day plus the ability to find instant resources and answers with a Goggle Search.

How do you keep up?

Is it my 76 years that is limiting my capabilities.

Way back [1950s] my father was delivering wholesale pot plants to a florist and as he walked into the back room with a flat of mums, he was walking on cut stems & stuff on the floor. He polite asked the shop owner/designer why he didn't keep the floor cleaned up, if just to make it safer.

The response was this: "Mr. Carlson, if I have time to constantly sweep up the cut stems I AM NOT GETTING ENOUGH BUSINESS.

That's how I feel this morning. If I have enough time to read all the information that is at my finger tips, it must be that I do not have enough business.

Tom Carlson

 

[Carrington]

Oh Tom I know how you feel and believe me it has nothing to do with age. I sit at my computer from morning till night and sometimes 24 hours and still don't feel I'm getting on top of it all.

sometimes I wish we were back in the 'good old days' when I had one phone line, no staff and the only source of information was the newspaper, TV and library for research!

I don't think we can ever ever hope to assimilate everything that's available but between us cherry pick the best bits and share ... be it here, through magazines or at work.

And as far as sitting reading every FC throws at me as I see it it is work as much as play so I never feel bad about it!

C

 

[Joe Mioux]

note to self.....

"Stand up.

Step away from your computer.

turn the internet off...."

grab a knife and start making a stem mess on the floor....


actually, I am on bridesmaid bouquet number 4 out of 8. started an hour ago, and just resting my lower back.

yea, sometimes we can waste a tremendous amount of time.

joe

 

[kathleen Murdie @ Brown's]

I have FC on when answering phones , only because it takes some people a looooong time to make up their mind, so I can get caught up on chat then...paper work is later in the afternoon when its slower. I wish for retirement...

 

[Gilliland]

I know where you are coming from. I visited to FC 23 hours ago and 310 unread post came in, I would like to read each but if I took only 15 seconds on each that would take 1 hour 17 minutes and I just don't have that kind of time, so I just scan the list and mark read.

 

[Tom Carlson]

Wouldn't It Be Neat

I know where you are coming from. I visited to FC 23 hours ago and 310 unread post came in, I would like to read each but if I took only 15 seconds on each that would take 1 hour 17 minutes and I just don't have that kind of time, so I just scan the list and mark read.

If we had "FlowerChat" for business related

And "FlowerChatter" for interesting but not business related.

That would help

TC

 

[Victoria]

If we had "FlowerChat" for business related

And "FlowerChatter" for interesting but not business related.

That would help

TC

We already have that Tom. Shop and social are seperate entities and all are interesting.

V

 

[Connie]

I know just how you feel Tom. There's Flower Chat ( a must!), emails (do I have to?), the running of the business (yes, I have to!), and family (how I want to!). There is never enough time to do everything well. Maybe it's about picking, choosing, and scanning.