Some Solutions for the Too Much Info, Not Enough Time Problem

With blogs, online news publications, aggregators, and social media, there is a lot of information being produced at a more rapid pace than ever before. User-generated content is flowing onto the web at a ridiculous pace. That comes in the form of blog posts, articles, status updates, tweets, forums, wikis, etc. That doesn't even take into account personal messages in email, private messages, text messages, and on and on and on.

There's not enough time in the day to get to everything that you want to, at least not if you intend to have any kind of a life away from your computer or mobile device. Businesses have to worry about this even more than the average consumer, because they have to factor in things like reputation monitoring and productivity, but also staying up to date on relevant information and news.

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Other tips include using news readers or using Twitter like a feed reader. I couldn't agree more with both of these tips. As far as Twitter is concerned, Twitter's recently added "Lists" feature can help this tremendously. You can use lists just as if they were folders in a feed reader like Google reader. This can help you categorize your incoming tweets and reduce "noise." You can essentially do the same thing on Facebook.

There are other services and tools out there beyond traditional feed readers, and the major social networks that can help you. 6 Ways Twitter Lists Are Changing the Game