Personal, anticipated information need. The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. The role of personal information collections is a well known feature of personal information management. It is suggested that personal information collections are created in anticipation of some future need for that information- personal, anticipated information need , which also underlies the design of formal information systems. Personal information collections. Anticipated information need. Information need. MORE >>

According to a recent infographic by OnlineUniversities.com , your brain “wasn’t designed to handle the amount information they’re currently processing.” Here are some tips from the infographic that can help you combat stress and digital information overload: Set only a few times per day to check email. Send messages in batches Schedule time to check your social networking sites. Example: [link] Click the image below to open the countdown timer. It pays however to limit your tasks to a maximum at two at a time. tabs open on average. MORE >>

Since you already know how to use Pinterest for marketing , now you're probably craving some inspirational real-life examples of brands using it effectively. For these brands, Pinterest's knack for allowing an interesting, visual way of categorizing information is likely the draw. While Pinterest is still very young and its true ROI remains to be seen, here are 7 examples of brands who are already using Pinterest the right way : to engage fans in a meaningful way that gets them to react, share, and even convert! Chobani. Oreck. Yes, the vacuum cleaner brand. Mashable. MORE >>

IKEA keyed right into their customers’ desire to show off their hard work and satisfied that desire with a very public, gorgeous site for customers to share. The traffic they drive goes right to IKEA’s site, which also includes a blog, where potential customers can browse and get inspired to share. You (or presumably IKEA) can tag IKEA items in the pictures, in which case product information and pricing appears with a link to the main IKEA ecommerce site. They get all of that without having to create all the content for the site themselves, either. MORE >>

A few weeks ago, we published a blog article featuring 15 examples of brilliant homepage design. were disappointed in the lack of industry variety in the examples we showcased, since a lot of them featured homepages of software companies. Agreeing that the latter was a much better choice, we pulled together a downloadable collection of 54 Examples of Brilliant Homepage Design , which features homepage examples from a variety of industries. And if you're looking for more examples, you can always download the complete collection here. And man was it popular! MORE >>