About PKM?

There is a deep paradox methinks in personal knowledge management why?

The deeper you delve into PKM the more you appreciate it is the social skills that count. Relationships, connections, exchanges, forums, dialog are the road to impoved personal knowledge - this is clearly not something you can do by yourself!

Sense-making, inquiry, exploration, knowledge creation, even learning are mainly social activies. Knowledge flows along trusted relations and new findings need open testing before you can be sure of the value, utility, meaning? and ethics.

Knowledge IMO does not arise from individual thought organisation, information access or from personal skills, or personal networking but from interaction, context & experience in a very social world. In a nutshell - the most important part of PKM is then networking, dialog, social interaction and sense-making. It is not responsibility for personal learning, not classification and personal access to information, but maintaining relationships, knowing where and who, reciprocity and dialog that gets things done.

So what exactly are your thoughts? 

Comments

[Shawn Callahan]

Totally agree Denham. But how do people develop their PKM capabilities? I sense that many organisations are pushing, more and more, for formal courses and training (get the certificate) when a program of self education supplemented by tools like Buzzoodle which suggests a bunch of crazy networking things you can do as an individual or group. Do you know of any self edication programs for PKM?

[Euan Semple]

Knowledge is like money. If its's not going anywhere it's not worth anything!

[Artichoke]

I am struggling with the same ideas about dialogue, relationships and knowledge building in New Zealand Denham -

I want to explore the idea that the unique advantage that ICTs bring to knowledge building is connectivity and networking of the individual and that this advantage will never happen whilst we cling to hierarchies that perpetuate the power imbalance inherent when we submerge ourselves in the groups developed through institutions. Read more ..

Sidorkian 3 drink metaphors for dialogue aside - I think that Doc Searl's "Giant Zero" with its “Nobody owns it, everybody can use it and anybody can improve it” metaphor - is just perfect for understanding how the net contributes to relationship building reciprocity and dialogue