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Personal knowledge management - Definition and Overview |
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Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a concept that has grown out of a combination of Knowledge management (KM) and Personal information management (PIM).
Personal KM is focused on helping an individual be more effective -- to work better. While the focus is the individual, the goal of the movement is to enable individuals to operate better in groups and in corporations as well. This is as opposed to the traditional view of KM, which appears to be more centered on enabling the corporation to be more effective by "recording" and making available what its people know.
The nice thing about PKM is that the "what's in it for me" ([1] (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/What%27s_in_it_for_me)) factor is taken care of immediately, so you get quicker individual buy-in. The difficult thing is how do you show a traditional company that individual employee effectiveness necessarily leads to better organizational effectiveness.
PKM has recently been linked to blogging or k-logs. The idea is individuals use their blogs to capture ideas, opinions or thoughts and this 'voicing' will encourage cognitive diversity, promote free exchanges away from a centralized policed knowledge repository that is additional to ordinary work.
Criticisms of PKM
Not everyone agrees that the focus on the individual is a good thing, or that PKM is anything more than a new wrapper around PIM. Most notably, some argue that knowledge is not an individual product - that it arises through social usage and social interaction. See Sociology_of_knowledge
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