An academic field that refers to the set of strategies, tools, and processes individuals use to effectively acquire, organize, store, retrieve, and share their personal knowledge and information. It involves managing one's own knowledge and information resources in order to enhance learning, productivity, and decision-making. [[Second Brain]] is an approach to PKM - [[PKM and Organisation Management- linked?]] - [[Dr Jason Frand on PKM- Youtube Video]] --- # [Personal Knowledge Management Origins paper](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA) - [Personal Knowledge Management](x-devonthink-item://9E9F31B7-9BEF-41E3-9D1D-3D9C8118450E) (PKM) attempts to utilize the computer to help the individual manage the information explosion in a meaningful way. - a systematic attempt to create, gather, distribute, and use knowledge. ( - a conceptual framework to organize and integrate information that we, as individuals, feel is important so that it becomes part of our [personal](x-devonthink-item://466631FD-6839-4944-8D52-D25F3F6E6747) knowledge base. It provides a strategy for transforming what might be random pieces of information into something that can be systematically applied and that expands our [personal](x-devonthink-item://466631FD-6839-4944-8D52-D25F3F6E6747) knowledge. ## [Page 2](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA?page=1) - The Web is the global sum of the uncoordinated activities of several hundreds of thousands of people who deal with the system as they please. It is a nebulous, ever-changing multitude of computer sites that house continually changing chunks of multimedia information... 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." ## [Page 3](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA?page=2) - Orrin Klapp outlines the attrition of meaning that often accompanies the vast accumulation of information. Information overload relates not just to the growing volume of information with which we must all deal, but also to the degradation of that information because of redundancy and noise. ## [Page 4](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA?page=3) - What this chart shows is a clear shift in responsibility from a library (which selects materials based on qualitative criteria) or a publisher (which employs professionals to evaluate content) to the individual to evaluate content in a far more fundamental way than was ever expected with traditional published information. - Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Where is the information we have lost in data? ## [Page 5](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA?page=4) - t’s an unlimited resource - one never runs out of the raw materials; knowledge grows from sharing (and the giver of knowledge frequently becomes even more knowledgeable through the process); and communication and [personal](x-devonthink-item://466631FD-6839-4944-8D52-D25F3F6E6747)chemistry are critical in the knowledge process. - Nonaka and Takeuchi (g) note that there are two types of knowledge: tacit (subjective) knowledge and explicit (objective) knowledge. - The following chart show knowledge spiral chart developed [br](x-devonthink-item://B0190482-21A8-4D8E-8E9A-A336DB31FA3A) Nonaka and Takeuchi. - This chart represents the knowledge transfer process as a spiral, starting off with passive (tacit) knowledge that is externalized in the process of trying to articulate it to someone else. We connect these explicit ideas to the existing body of knowledge, combining them and internalizing them, making them tacit once again. An example of this process would be an experienced cook who intuitively knows how to create a new dish based on years of experience. She tries to teach a novice, externalizing her knowledge of food chemistry, communicating it in the form of a recipe. The novice takes the recipe, compares it to other recipes available in books and experiments with it, internalizing it. The new cook then passes her https://web.archive.org/web/20070516142458/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/researcher/speeches/PKM.htm Page 5 of 9 ## [Page 6](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA?page=5) - [Personal Knowledge Management](x-devonthink-item://9E9F31B7-9BEF-41E3-9D1D-3D9C8118450E) 08/12/2022, 14:55 tacit knowledge on by sharing the recipe and her technique (externalizing) with another cook. And so the spiral goes on and on. - effective knowledge management is a result of the "fit" between the university environment and culture, the expectations of a particular class, and the individual’s competencies. In this environment, there are three major pieces to consider: the university culture, the classroom presentation (content), and the individual student’s information handling skills. - There is a lack of coordination within and between areas and integration is left to the learner. - Relating concepts is left to the learner. - Some problems appear to be intrinsic to knowledge management, whether it is being performed using a word processor, a formal language-based tool or pencil and paper. These problems include: the issues of categorizing or classifying, the issue of naming things and making distinctions between them, the issue of evaluating and assessing. ## [Page 7](x-devonthink-item://0FFB56F6-0E10-4BF5-BBB0-C68486F231EA?page=6) - The heuristics we present to them include: searching/finding, categorizing/classifying, naming things/making distinctions, evaluating/assessing, and integrating or relating - there are as many classification schemes as there are queries - pick what works best for you; try to anticipate how you’re likely to use something ("role" approach) before classifying; organize from the general to the more specific, putting items into the most specific category; subdivide when you have a new category (we use the rule of thumb of 7 plus or minus 2 to clump material). - use names that are meaningful to you; make names as complete as necessary and as short as possible to be able to identify content and minimize confusion; use unique terms for distinct concepts; use names, abbreviations, file extensions, etc. in a consistent manner; when there are two different ways of expressing the same concept, choose one term and reference the other (e.g., through hyperlinks).