As
I halfway watched a kiddie show on airplanes today with my son, I
overheard the host saying that the first airplane flew at about 30 miles
per hour and over time they have gotten faster, and faster. It got me
thinking, that is the exact thing that is happening with technology and
the effects are becoming a bit overwhelming. This infographic provides a visual demonstration of how technological overload is becoming an epidemic.
In Dana Ishii’s week two blog reflection,
she mentions how this course is progressing at what feels like “warp
speed.” Many of the peers I have talked to in this course have echoed
that same feeling. With all the different social media platforms and
assignments we are juggling, I started to think that there must be tools
to increase productivity that would make our lives easier. This
thought spurred an online quest for productivity apps.
The
journey lead me to a few different online articles that suggest
applications and programs to enhance productivity (listed below). While
they offered some exciting and promising benefits, I then started
wondering if I even have the time to try these. With each new program
comes a learning curve and I don’t know if I have the energy to devote
to learning something new. I decided to offer the links to the articles
anyway as a means to start a discussion. I find some of my best
teachers have been my peers. Maybe you can help by answering some of
these questions. Do you have any productivity apps that are worth the
time to learn? Have you tried any of the ones suggested by the
articles? How did they work for you?
Streamlining Social Media with Productivity Programs & Applications
What a great post-- and wonderful to connect to Dana's good work too. In terms of productivity products, I have been using ActionMethod for a year or so and they funny thing is, when I get really busy, I ignore it! I get emails from them about my missed or late action items and don't even enter it. It works well for normal times, but not (for me yet) for crazy times. Wonder what that says about my organizational skills. Thanks for sharing.
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