Influx of Information

In class, we talked about how one of the biggest challenges of information architecture was all the information. Today, I experienced this phenomenon.

After reading Chapter 10, I returned to work to ask some educated questions about our site (which I will most likely be using for the class project). My supervisor answered my questions about the things we needed to update, and then said he'd forward on a few things that we needed to add to update the papers. Two hours later I went to my inbox to find 15 emails containing several attachments in the form of papers and presentations to add to the site. Also, I had been cc'd on a handful of emails to other individuals asking them to forward more papers to me.

And in my head, I'm asking myself, "What have I gotten into here?"

So I wrote my supervisor an email and we had another brief meeting. Now we have a two step plan that includes putting the new documents on the web, and then dealing with some organizational upgrades. Piece of cake--communication is everything.