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June 18, 2005

PKM exercise

Personal knowledge management is an enigma !

Increase your knowledge of PKM, engage in a KB conversation and collaborate on wikipedia. Let's understand this concept, explore it's principles, gather the essentials and refactor our thoughts.

Seems the boundaries around personal knowledge management are not all that clear yet. There are a number of quite different views on what PKM is and why anyone should pay attention to this.

I see the critical skills of the individual knowledge worker as those that support:

  • networking and connectivity
  • open dialog and productive inquiry
  • collaborative virtual work
  • creating value via working with knowledge (very different from information)
  • community building and active participation in a domain practice

Others tend to focus on:

  1. technology and tool sets
  2. (personal) information access & organization
  3. analysis and decision making
  4. blogging, branding & presentation
  5. security, protection and intellectual property
  6. inquiry and individual learning

Perhaps the sweet spot for PKM is a blended approach?

IMO PKM that does not focus on networking, community participation, tacit knowledge exchanges and inquiry is pointed in the wrong direction. Personal voicing, thought organization and indivdual publication, do not do justice to the social components necessary for real knowledge work.

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