PKM Effective learning is the difference between surfing the waves or being drowned by them and PKM (personal knowledge management) can be your customized surfboard. One of the important aspects of PKM is triage, or sorting. What I have found out over several years of using PKM methods and tools is that I have been creating a powerful resource. Note: This is a revised HTML version of previous PDF’s posted on the site , which should make it easier for sharing. We may learn on our own but usually not by ourselves.

In Sense-making with PKM I described some personal knowledge management processes using various web tools. PKM takes the notion of a personal journal and extends it significantly. Critical thinking is an important aspect of PKM but I had not put the two together explicitly. The overall process consists of four internal actions (Sort, Categorize, Retrieve, Make Explicit) and three externally focused ones (Connect, Contribute, Exchange). Personal knowledge management is one way of addressing the issue of TMI (too  much information).

I will be presenting on personal knowledge management (PKM) for LearnTrends 2009 on Tuesday, 17 November at 12:00 noon Pacific (15:00 EST & 20:00 GMT). PKM Overview Sense-making with PKM (explains processes in more detail) In preparation, I’ve created a 5 minute video overview (MP4) of the topic, summarizing many of the posts I’ve written on the subject (click link below to launch video). References:

It seems that Stephen Downes isn’t enamoured with my PKM process : All of my articles on PKM are descriptive, not prescriptive. This is Urs Frei’s representation of PKM: And here is a model of social networking technologies and PKM skills from a group of researchers at the University of Florence: My first thought was, do I do it this way? And, of course, I don’t – my process is much too haphazard to be dignified with the term ‘method’.

This is my personal information/knowledge management (PKM) environment and this personal and social productivity orientation helps me work more efficiently and effectively. We can never have complete KM, instead we have PKM nodes that are connected in a network. I came across Nick Milton’s blog the other day, and one of his posts that speaks a lot of truth, says something I don’t In a past post I elaborated on social networks like Twitter as being a Help engine; an alternative to a search engine in some cases in finding answers and making decisions. I also

A few months back, Harold Jarche wrote a very interesting article about sense making with Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) . strongly suggest that you also look through the webinar he did on PKM at the LearnTrends conference . What also helps with social tools like Delicious, is that you can benefit from all the PKM that everyone else is doing. Harold suggested a model that he uses to manage his personal knowledge and stay on top of his social media intake. I

This post is a continuation of Sense-making with PKM (March, 2009)] What is PKM? PKM is an individual, disciplined process by which we make sense of information, observations and ideas. PKM can be looked at as three types of activities [note: I've reduced this from seven activities in my previous articles on PKM as I believe that a simpler process is easier to teach Personal Knowledge Management [This Personal = according to one’s abilities, interests and motivation (not directed by external forces)

Dennis Callahan has a most interesting Posterous site, called LearnStreaming . His latest post shows this graphic, which I find reflects many of the concepts of personal knowledge management , but with some additional aspects that may make it easier to understand and do: Dennis has a clear and simple definition for Learnstreaming – publishing your learning activities online for the benefit of you and others .

But hopefully 2009 will be the year when that begins to change. This sounds a lot like a personal learning environment, personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal work and learning environment (PWLE) and PIM. If you care about being relevant and valuable in 2015, you had better be making moves in 2009. No Clear Tool Choices One of the techniques I commonly use now that eLearning Learning has Related Terms is to look at a topic and see what relates to it. I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning.

Sense-making with PKM PKM is a set of problem-solving skills for work, focused on getting things done but not necessarily task focused A PKM Method Other models for PKM PKM is very much individualized These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management . My side comments are in italics.