Information Overload

How many of you subscribe to information e-zines that appear in your inbox daily, weekly, monthly? And how many of you don’t get around to opening the e-zines, resulting in a pile up in your inbox or folder you have created?

We live in a world full of information overload. We come across valuable information and out of fear of not retaining that information we, hold on to it, file it away, or put it on a stack of papers to be read another time. The thing is, most of the time we keep getting a continual flow of information that we don't have immediate time for and our pile gets larger and larger until we get to the point where we start throwing information out.

NAEFSS sends out e-zines on a monthly basis. The rule of thumb is not to send them more than weekly or less than monthly. Still, sending them out monthly, only about 60%-75% get opened. We want to let our Members know that our e-zines, (One Green Thing – Free Eco-Tips) are always copied in our monthly newsletter, which are then placed in the newsletter archives for future reference. If you want to review information from the newsletter you won't have to keep it in your inbox, just go to the archives tab.

We want to help with information overload by not bombarding our members with too much information that can not be read in a short amount of time, while addressing specific concerns through the Member’s Forum. We hope you are enjoying the information from our “Ask the Expert” section of our newsletter as well as the Member’s Source Guide.

Enjoy the day!