Full Circle Associates

Knowledgeboard is kicking off a new section on Technologies for Personal Knowledge Management.

"Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), the set of processes a knowledge worker needs to set up in order to get the best out of his knowledge during his/her daily activities, has often been considered as the missing block in most KM plans within knowledge intensive organisations, as Davenport and Prusack reckoned in their KM classic 'Working Knowledge'."

I think I fall somewhere further on the spectrum of belief that KM is more of a group thing, than a personal thing (a la Denham), but I certainly believe that PKM is important. If nothing else, it keeps one a bit more employable.

That said, I'll be interested to follow the technologies. Judith Meskill pointed to one today whose website totally alarmed me. What a poor first impression it made on me. The PPT bored me with so many slow meaningless builds I bailed after two slides. And this from a company that professes to understand how the brain works! In any case, I'm trying to follow technologies more closely as part of the CoP Tech Report Update with Wenger, Smith and Rowe.

Related links from KnowledgeBoard's email alert:

Steve Barth's website
http://www.global-insight.com/pkm/

Paul Dorsey's "What is PKM?"
http://www.millikin.edu/webmaster/seminar/pkm.html

David Gurteen's "Opening Thoughts: Defining IPKM"
http://www.kwork.org/Stars/gurteen.html#IPKM

Denham Grey's "PKM" weblog post
http://denham.typepad.com/km/2003/12/pkm.html

Lilia Efimova's "My personal KM" weblog post
http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/02/16.html#a1089

Dave Pollard's "Confessions of a CKO; what I should have done"
weblog post
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/05/31.html#a755