Maria often works from her local coffee shop. Harold Jarche’s PKM (Personal Knowledge Mastery) model is a related but more comprehensive structure for workplace learning. She always engages in a bit of people watching while she’s there. For the last two months, she’s been observing Jack, another frequent patron of the coffee shop. Jack meets clients for a coffee at least once a month. MORE

You may not have the time to attend workshops and courses, but find the time to attend networking groups such as your local chapter of ATD. 30 day challenge Common sense PKM Professional Knowledge TravelIt’s day 18 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Common Sense Ain’t Common. Today I flew home, and once again had the opportunity to sit and observe mankind try to navigate the world of travel. MORE

adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. Certainly PLE and PKM would seem to be too limited, right? I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. MORE

However, most organizations are still floundering caught between practices and processes that have become obsolete ( hierarchical decision-making, 9-5 office hours, yearly appraisal cycles, mandatory training hours , and so on) and a new and transformed world informed by the convergence of social, local and mobile. L&D will transform organizations to become “social” organizations by facilitating PKM and community management. "The nature of work is changing. MORE

An increasingly global and uber connected workforce, globally distributed organizations, dispersed expertise, ubiquitous connectivity powered by the affordances of social, local and mobile (SoLoMo) and the economy of individuals are giving rise to completely different working and learning behaviors. This necessitates individuals to practice Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and build their Personal Learning Networks (PLN). MORE

Teach a man to fish… PKM: Figuring out what’s important to you, how to find it, how to keep up with it, how to make sense of it, how to recall it when you need it anew, and how to share it with others — this is ground zero for mining the riches of the web. Bookstore shelves overflow with books on blogging , but I’ve yet to see one on PKM. Harold Jarche has written some great posts about PKM. How do you organize your PKM? MORE

Given the massive scope of PKM, I needed to narrow my focus. After agonising over the problem for almost a full minute, it dawned on me that the immediate relevance of PKM to the conference attendees lay in how they were going to make the most out of said conference. Share your new-found knowledge with your colleagues, adding your own insights for local context. conference #AITD2017 2017 aitd conferences crowdsourcing events personal knowledge management PKM tips MORE

Harold’s PKM is a set of individually constructed processes to help each of us make sense of our world and work more efficiently. This takes place on the local team level, in communities of practice, and on the internet at large. PKM provides a framework for becoming knowledgeable. Says Harold, PKM may be an individual activity but it is social as well. Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. MORE