Personal Knowledge Management

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Personal Knowledge Management
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What is it?

• Personal knowledge management (PKM) involves a
  range of relatively simple and inexpensive
  techniques and tools that anyone can use to
  acquire, create and share knowledge, extend
  personal networks and collaborate with colleagues
  without having to rely on the technical or
  financial resources of the employer. (Barth,
  2000)
• PKM is a conceptual framework to organize and
  integrate information that we, as individuals,
  feel is important so that it becomes part of our
  personal knowledge base. It provides a strategy
  for transforming what might be random pieces of
  information into something that can be
  systematically applied and that expands our
  personal knowledge. (Frand Hixon, 1999)

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Personal?

• PKM can be thought of as a set of skills
  necessary for problem solving
• Retrieving information
• Evaluation/assessing information
• Organizing information
• Analyzing information
• Presenting information
• Securing information
• Collaborating around information
• (Paul Dorsey)

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PKM Tools

• Old school file folders, file cabinet, piles
• Not so old school computer, scanner, LOTS of
  disk space
• New school DEVONThink
• PersonalBrain
• Gurunet
• Friendster

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Tools that THINK?

• These tools are meant to enhance the PKM
  processes rather than actually thinkbut some of
  them are pretty smart.
• Some Categories of PKM Tools
• Index/Search
• Associative links
• Unstructured Information Capture
• Concept/Mind Mapping
• E-Mail management
• Voice Recognition
• People/Expert Finding
• (Petruzzelli Iavernaro, 2004)

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So What Does It Mean?

• PKM is essentially a method for acquiring and
  exchanging information that goes beyond technical
  skill and technological tools to incorporate
  personal behaviors and relationships.
• In other words its
• What you know, who you know and what they know
  (Barth, 2000)

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PKM to EKM

• Starts with the individual
• Proper tools are essential
• Requires support and encouragement throughout the
  organization

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References

• Barth, S. (2000) The power of one. Knowledge
  Management. Retrieved March 4, 2005 from
  http//www.destinationkm.com/print/default.asp?Art
  icleID615.
• Dorsey, P. (n.d.). What is pkm? Retrieved March
  4, 2005 from http//www.millikin.edu/webmaster/sem
  inar/pkm.html.
• Frand, J. Hixon, C. (1999). Personal knowledge
  management who, what, why, when, where, how?
  Retrieved March 4, 2005 from http//www.anderson.u
  cla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/researcher/speeches/PK
  M.htm.
• Petruzzellis, S. Iavernaro, F. (2004).
  Technologies for personal knowledge management.
  Knowledgeboard. Retrieved March 4, 2005 from
  http//www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id
  127806dpnd.