Managing the Tools that Manage Information

I love the flexibility Enterprise 2.0 tools provide and have made it somewhat of a personal quest to find new ways to use these tools to make my job easier.  But as I and my employer adopt new applications to help manage information, I find the number of tools and all the little pockets of information they generate to be a little unmanageable.  Here’s why: We have a very robust wiki/project management tool that’s been in use within our group for a few years now. The tool is widely used by our team and has become pretty entrenched in the group’s culture.  Couple that with a new, company-wide roll out of a team collaboration/community/project platform that’s starting to take root as well.  Add to the mix a few other applications I use such as Facebook, Linked-In and GrandCentral.  I have a work email account and a couple personal email accounts, IM and Twitter and I use Google to manage the various RSS feeds I track.  The result of all of this is a lot ...