People learn socially. 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. Not only that, it may be our social responsibility to be contributors to our common knowledge. Social. Bookmarks. Twitter. Social. — What I have found out over several years of using PKM methods and tools is that I have been creating a powerful resource. Categorize. Make Explicit. Write. MORE >>

Free Your Bookmarks: This is a very simple shift that only requires a slight deviation from a common practice: saving bookmarks/favourites on your browser. Being able to share is usually not a prime reason why people start using social bookmarks. Connect:  How do you get started micro-blogging on a platform like Twitter ? Sometimes we get all caught up in the latest social media tools. Communities PKMJohn Stepper discusses how people can get started working out loud and shows examples of different types of networks that one could connect with. MORE >>

Tweet George Siemens calls it information management (what I describe as PKM). From my perspective, the knowledge aspect of PKM is an emergent property of the activities conducted, many of which are merely information management. more appropriate term would be Personal Information Management for Sense-making (PIMS?) , but PKM is the term I’m sticking with for now. These five actions pretty much mirror my own PKM processes. Tags: Informal Learning PKM specifically use the term information instead of knowledge. MORE >>

Jane Hart, another colleague at the Internet Time Alliance, has examined social media and learning in the context of the workplace and has noted that much of it is informal (Hart 2010). Social learning is about getting things done in networks. Network learning, at the individual level, includes: Personal directed learning – how individuals can use social media for their own (self-directed) personal or professional learning; and. Accidental and serendipitous learning – how individuals, by using social media, can learn without consciously realizing it (e.g., Twitter). MORE >>

Lilia Efimova ( 2004 ) was one of my earlier inspirations, “To a great extend PKM [personal knowledge management] is about shifting responsibility for learning and knowledge sharing from a company to individuals and this is the greatest challenge for both sides.&# This still sums up the core concept of PKM. saw a need for PKM inside all businesses so I began investigating and practising PKM while reflecting on my own attempts to manage my knowledge. By 2007, PKM had become my best tool and I had once more revised my processes. personal learning network. MORE >>