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PKM Personal Knowledge Management
Personal
Knowledge Management
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PKM: Who?
PKM: What?
PKM: Why? Information Explosion
" it is estimated that the amount of information - not knowledge and not unique information - available on the Internet in the year 2001 will be greater than all knowledge in recorded history."
PKM: Why? Information Chaos
If the WWW were compared to a library, the “books” on its shelves would keep changing their relative locations as well as their sizes and names. Individual “pages” in those publications would be shuffled ceaselessly. Finally, much of the data on those pages would be revised, updated, extended, shortened or even deleted without warning almost daily.
PKM: Why? Information Overload
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PKM: Why? Shift in Responsibility
PKM: When?
PKM: Where?
PKM: How?
Topics for Exploration
We live in a sea of data, and we have ready access to information Our challenge is knowledge and its management
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DATA 041899DL5508201430
Information Date 041899 Flight DL55 Departure 0820 Arrival 1430
Knowledge But flight 55 is always late, you’ll miss you meeting!
Wisdom It doesn’t really matter!
Do you agree?
Personal Information Management Tools
What is Knowledge? some attributes
Two Types of Knowledge
Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Spiral
"I call my field knowledge management, but you can't really manage knowledge. What a company can do is manage the environment that optimizes knowledge.”
Knowledge Management in Context
University Environment/Culture
University Environment/Culture However: a bit of reality...
Content and Presentation
Individual’s Information Handling Skills Computer-Mediated Information Behaviors
If student and teachers continue to approach the educational experience using the same old approaches and techniques, will investing in information technologies make any difference?
What, if anything, do faculty and students need to do differently to get value from our investments in information technologies?
One component involves Personal Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management Challenges
1. Categorizing/Classifying
2. Naming things/ Making distinctions (choosing terms, labels or symbols)
3. Evaluating/Assessing
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Anderson “Edge” Workshop An Introduction to PKM
Searching/Finding Heuristics
Categorizing/Classifying Heuristics
Naming things/ Making distinctions Heuristics
Evaluating/Assessing Heuristics for Web Based Sources
Integrating/Relating possible end-products
But… it’s the underlying file structure which is critical
Chronological Organizational Approach “when”
Functional Organizational Approaches “what”
Role Organizational Approaches “how”
Anderson “Edge” Workshop An Introduction to PKM
Workshop Effectiveness N = 162 in MBA Class of 2001
Some Student Comments...
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Jones and Thomas Conclusion regarding Personal Information Management Tools
Rate of Introduction of Technology occurred at a faster pace at some schools, but the technology introduced and its use is not different!
Personal Knowledge Management PKM Challenge for the 21st Century
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