Information overload: Mind mapping software

The phrase 'participatory culture' has been defined as a 'new way of life that lets people create and circulate self-made content such as video, audio, text, and images'. The culture has been taking shape in the form of popular social networking sites like Facebook, flickr, and wikipedia, which have encouraged mass participation and collaboration. The participatory culture is changing the way people and the media communicate and engage. This participation-effect is also extending its influence into the enterprise. Many of us are finding we need to interact, form on-the-fly communities, and convey self-made content and contributions between ourselves, encouraging a participatory culture to develop making employees within teams work together in a new and different way. Teams in today’s modern workplace are being asked to deal with the pressures of ad-hoc projects, information overload, and high-performance. As individuals, we are becoming increasingly susceptible to information overload. Each day we are exposed to 300 emails on our Blackberry, spam on our computer, instant messaging conversations, and heaps of tasks coming from phone calls, text messages and face-to-face meetings, often resulting in four or five pages of to-do lists. And the challenges are precipitating new technologies and communities to assist the participatory activity. If only you could add some memory to yourself, in the same way you can add memory to your PC, to cope with the piles and piles of information you need to remember.