'PKM is much more than processing information. Most of all, PKM is a framework to actually do knowledge work. It is a framework that helps move from an awareness of knowledge to activation of its use in the context of getting work done. Activation of knowledge happens in the context of tasks and so the cycle continues.

'Earlier this week I wrote that practices like personal knowledge management (PKM), and its potential for enhanced serendipity can give us the underlying structure to become better hackers and more creative. Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools. Informal Learning

Learning can only be managed by the individual in whose head the learning is occurring. But they can’t manage the learning process for you. One of which is “if learning is managed by the learner, what will the technologies that support her look like in the next 3, 5, 10 years?” It is this. That’s down to you alone.

From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management. Acquiring new knowledge and skills – e.g. in webinars, online workshops, MOOCs , and through videos and screencasts, etc. Knowledge Transfer STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011. Should knowledge be a commodity? Page 1 of 2.

“The basic unit of social business technology is personal knowledge management, not collaborative workspaces.” Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. ” Knowledge.

Every day, Working Smarter Daily uses social signals to select the top articles from blogs in these fields. From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management  JANE HART   |  SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012. Reconciling Formal and Informal  CLARK QUINN   |  THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012. Here’s how. JULY 16, 2012.

Most people are too busy managing in the industrial/information age workplace and have no slack to try to learn how work in the network age. strongly suggest that the first step of starting to work out loud, as part of personal knowledge management, has to be as simple as possible. But they probably won’t.

tireless thinker and presenter on learning, he has pushed the learning world to think seriously about informal learning, and working smarter. Informal learning Workflow learning ties learning into the actual workflow within an organisation. For cross this is underpinned by personal, intrinsic motivation. Bibliography Cross J.

After a decade of looking at innovation in organizations, Gardner says that people have to be personally motivated; the old “what’s in it for me?” “In other words, if it personally affects us, we care about it. ” This is why I think personal knowledge management is so important.

I’m still playing with Google Plus and have not made it an integrated part of my personal knowledge management process yet. What I usually do with G+ posts I like is 1) post them to Twitter, 2) add as Twitter favourites 3) and then curate them on my weekly Friday’s Finds blog post. It is seamless. These are circles.

August is typically a quiet month, but there have been plenty of good blog posts and articles around. early 80% of respondents participate in online groups to help others by sharing information and experiences; 66% participate in a professional community of colleagues and peers; 41% participate in groups to be seen as someone knowledgeable.”

As I showed in my recent blog post , there are some big differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social/collaborative business. 3 – helping people work and learn effectively in this networked era (and within a social business), by developing their own Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) skills.

My definition of personal knowledge management is quite short: PKM: A set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively, and contribute to society. Usually the barriers stem from the organizational structure or from management. PKM 2008. PKM 2010.

If you want to grow as a person and a worker and if you want to gain skills that will help you take that next step in your career, you’ll probably have to learn those skills on your own. Acquiring new knowledge and skills – e.g.  in webinars, online workshops, MOOCs, and through videos and screencasts, etc. Social learnin

The most important part of  personal knowledge management  (PKM), in my opinion, is the need for active sense-making. Merely Merely seeking and sharing information does little other than create more noise online. Sense-making, or placing information into context, is where the real personal value of PKM lies. The

When someone is thinking and learning ‘out loud’, e.g. putting their deeper reflections on line via, say, a blog (er, like this one, recursively), they’re allowing you to look at where and how their thinking is going. When they also are leaving a trail of what they think is interesting (e.g. meta-learning social

2 – There were quite a lot of valuable postings this month on the topic of informal learning v formal learning. Harold Later in the month (21 May), Ryan Tracey, wrote a post where he said we should start with  Informal first. ” 2 – There were a couple of interesting posts on blogging for learning. Firstly, Harold

This post is in response to the Adidas Blog Carnival on a New Way of Working and Learning  and more specifically responding to the question, “What should a true learning organisation look like?” The role of managers should be to manage the system, not the individual functions. ” W. Here is what I have found.

The actual tools I use for personal knowledge management are quite limited. Google Reader is my aggregator; I link my Delicious & Diigo social bookmark accounts together but mostly use Diigo; I write my half-baked ideas regularly on my blog; and I engage in many conversations on Twitter which I curate here.

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book,  Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance ,  recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

PKM is also a key skill of being an effective autonomous learner – as we can see from the many individuals who are already organizing and managing their own personal learning strategies in the organization – and consequently a key aspect of BYOL (Bring Your Own Learning). For me this is spot on. Whereas PKM Social learnin

My previous blog post  that revealed that around 70% of respondents in my recent survey found training (including e-learning) “unimportant” or only “somewhat important” has generated quite a bit of interest. Take responsibility for their own learning personal/professional development in the organisation. Reflect and review.

Tweet Cristina Milos recently tweeted  that; “ Curating is different from aggregating information. During my online conversation ( recording on YouTube ) with Jane Hart  yesterday, we discussed personal knowledge management (PKM) and one very important aspect, in my opinion, is the need for active sense-making.

Here’s more information about the webinar and how you can reserve your seat as well as leave your questions for Harold in advance of the webinar itself. Topic :  PKM (Personal Knowledge Management): making sense of the Social Web. Date: Wednesday 21 March 18.30-19.30 GMT (13.30-14.30 ET, 10.30-11.30 or newer.

Tweet More of my online sense-making is in connecting to people, not accessing information sources. used to read many of the technology blogs, like TechCrunch and Read/Write Web but have dropped them from my feed reader and instead read posts that have been referred via Twitter, Google Plus or blog posts.

Tweet I was asked by Ryan McClure, a regular reader of this blog, in an email to “ have a go at the fear of change by addressing it directly “ He was referring to situations where senior executives seem to be on a different plane of reality. But that’s probably not enough to change the status quo.

Information work entailed following instructions, logical analysis and left-brained procedures. Concept work relies on pattern recognition, tacit knowledge and the wisdom borne of experience. The 21st century workplace is so different from its predecessor that managers and professionals must follow a new set of practices to succeed.

Information work entailed following instructions, logical analysis and left-brained procedures. Concept work relies on pattern recognition, tacit knowledge and the wisdom borne of experience. The 21st century workplace is so different from its predecessor that managers and professionals must follow a new set of practices to succeed.

In other words those who think “social learning” is just about a new training trend, or about adding social media into the ”blend”, or that it is about acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System are missing the big picture. We value informal learning and want to support people learn continuously – in the workflow. No way!

In other words those who think “social learning&# is just about a new training trend, or about adding social media into the  &# blend&# , or that it is about acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System are missing the big picture. We value informal learning and want to support people learn continuously – in the workflow.

Interestingly enough, plenty of people have been questioning whether, now that we have got Google Plus as well, it makes sense to dump your own blog in favour of your social activities in the various social networking sites. One of them is my Flickr account and the other one, of course, is my blog. This blog. Information Mavens.

Tweet I define Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) as a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. George Siemens has made this rather succinct statement about knowledge: When I externalize something, it’s information.

Using a Seek-Sense-Share framework (à la personal knowledge management), pick one or more web platforms on which to practise critical thinking. With more information in online databases, use Search, instead of file folders. Write an original Blog post. Comment on or about other blogs. Observe & Study.

Using a Seek-Sense-Share framework (à la personal knowledge management), pick one or more web platforms on which to practise critical thinking. With more information in online databases, use Search, instead of file folders. Write an original Blog post. Comment on or about other blogs. Observe & Study.

Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Make traditional management obsolete.

Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. ~ Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Knowledge-Based View.

Scott Monty has got a rather interesting and very insightful blog post where he comes to ponder how every year there are a bunch of people out there, coming from different places, who keep questioning whether blogging is dead or whether we are enjoying the last few days of that phenomenon that got started over 14 years ago. Where else?

For March the LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results? Could you do this with informal or social learning? Do you have to regularly access information and knowledge to do your job?

Here is the first of these: “Our industrial management models are based on a belief that our structures are merely complicated.&#. They said either 1) they wanted more leadership from their mid-level managers or 2) they wanted more ownership from their employees for the outcomes the business required. Simple = easily knowable.

how eventually change took place for the better, how content is no longer king explaining what some of its main challenges are at the moment and how building trust worthy, lasting connections, personal business relationships is the way to go, specially since your people are your company. Look no further. It’s that good!

Here is the list for those interested here they are: " Naturalizing Sensemaking " in Informed by Knowledge by Mosier & Fischer. Knowledge Theory Perspectives on Place Branding " in the International Place Branding Yearbook edited by Go and Govers. world wide series of seminars around that will be announced on Monday.

Tim says that innovation is the process of idea management , which makes sense to me. Tim Kastelle introduced me to the concept of Aggregate-Filter-Connect for innovation, which I used for personal knowledge management (network learning) and later changed it to Seek-Sense-Share. Tweet Innovation. Network Learning.

Tweet “In the period ahead of us, more important than advances in computer design will be the advances we can make in our understanding of human information processing – of thinking, problem solving, and decision making…” ~ Herbert Simon, Economics Nobel-prize winner (1968). Sensing is how we personalize information and use it.

All the information and knowledge in the world will not help us unless we take time to reflect upon what we have learned and also do something with it. When I discuss personal knowledge management [a term that really needs to be changed and I welcome suggestions] I emphasize reflection through doing. Tweet.

Personal knowledge management is not so much about creating knowledge but rather the development of conscious regular activities from which can emerge new knowledge. The knowledge artifacts created along the way are only as good as the use to which they are put. Tags: Informal Learning PKM

Innovation abounds in the early stages and knowledge capitalization is aided by a common vision of the business. Beyond this size, knowing everybody in person becomes impossible. This is what management schools have been doing for over half a century.  Knowledge-Based View. Knowledge Acquisition. Complication.

Since a one-person business doesn’t have separate marketing and training departments, there’s no need to worry about any turf wars. started blogging here in 2004, and my blog is my pervasive presence on the Web. It has now become my knowledge base and provides fodder for articles and presentations. Tweet.

Yesterday, during my presentation on personal knowledge management to IBM BlueIQ I was asked about the role of blogging in my own sense-making processes. For almost seven years, my blog has been where I try to make sense of my observations. As I’ve said before, this blog is mostly for me.

This week, a few related knowledge management (KM) articles crossed my path and I’d like to weave them together. Leveraging collective knowledge may be our collective challenge but there are no guaranteed solutions at this time. The illusion of knowledge. This is still new territory. The need for KM is evident.

Harold Jarche talks about our personal knowledge management task, and in that, there are the tools I use to capture and share my own thinking (like this), and tools I use to go out and find or follow information. My ITA colleague Jane Hart regularly collects the top 100 learning tools via contributions from lots of folks. 

I became interested in knowledge management (KM) as I was introduced to it in the mid 1990’s while practising instructional systems design (ISD) and human performance technology (HPT) in the military. became a consumer and simultaneously a sharer of online knowledge. personal learning environment.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged, and it’s not that there haven’t been learnings, it’s just that my dance card was too too full.  Being able to do Personal Knowledge Management at the time of inspiration or need, or even of convenience, is huge.  Social. Business changes. Escape.

And in fact, the culture of any individual person is composed not of metallic-like elemental forms of being indivisible and separate and pure. And probably in that discussion you will create new knowledge, right? You know, one person would say something, blah blah blah, "Yeah, I know that," blah blah blah, "Yeah, I knew that."

These are topics that are coming up in the participating blogs more during this time than they have in the past and that have good social signals. Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ).

The term personal knowledge management (PKM) isn’t about management in a business sense but rather how we can manage to make sense of information and experience in our electronic surround. Personal – according to one’s abilities, interests & motivation (not directed by external forces).

Focus: understanding web social media and how they can be used for training, education and personal learning. Personal knowledge management – a sense-making process. Tools, techniques and resources for social learning on the web: e.g. social bookmarks, blogs, twitter. There is a $10 fee to cover refreshments.

Interesting finds on twitter this past week: Tom Haskins : When we get confident in our own informal evaluation schema- we can take others’ evaluation of us with a grain of salt. juneholley: Emergence and management. Yes, it is certainly true that the role of managers is probably exaggerated (with their pay).  FastForward.

Note: my blog is where I hammer out ideas, so you may be finding some of these posts a bit repetitive. My working definition of personal knowledge management: PKM: a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. Sorry about that.

KMers.org runs a regular TweetChat on knowledge management (KM) issues and today’s was on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) , with the following agenda: What effective means have we found to aggregate, filter and share information? mathemagenic blogging! Tags: Informal Learning PKM

His question was something along the lines of ‘what blogs would I have to read if I wanted to be able to make the connections that you do on your blog?’ ve been working on making it in to a general model of how we create something unique when we’re primarily dealing with information. This was really Sam’s question.

PKM is an individual, disciplined process by which we make sense of information, observations and ideas. The Web has given us more ways to connect with others in our learning but many people only see the information overload aspect of our digital society. For example, I use this blog as a knowledge repository.

Personal Knowledge Management. Personal = according to one’s abilities, interests and motivation (not directed by external forces). Knowledge = the capacity for effective action (know how). Management = how to get things done. Information. Knowledge. Sources of Info & Knowledge.

Knowledge Squared equals Power Squared, says Craig Thomler : However the knowledge hoarding model begins to fail when it becomes cheap and easy to share and when the knowledge required to complete a task exceeds an individual’s capability to learn in the time available. Tags: Informal Learning Wirearchy

Though I registered in 2007, after having tried tried out Jaiku, I didn’t really adopt micro-blogging until mid 2008. Once you get used to the medium, it’s much easier than trying to write a blog post, which of course is easier than writing a feature article, let alone a book. Tags: Communities Informal Learning

sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. Andrew McAfee , Principal Research Scientist , Center for Digital Business – MIT Sloan School of Management and Author, Enterprise 2.0. tools. strategy.

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). Learning and Micro-blogging (all about Twitter). Tags: Informal Learning PKM Overview. References: Sense-making with PKM (explains processes in more detail).

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.

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.

I'm particularly looking forward to discussions around: How information services and enterprise 2.0 Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs We've put up a preliminary schedule for LearnTrends 2009. Please see that post for details. Where does social really fit?

Over the years of writing this blog I’ve reorganized, added tags, categories and  the Key Posts and Toolbox pages in order to help make sense of over 1,500 posts. Informal. Personal Knowledge Management. Tags: Communities Informal Learning Learning Performance Improvement Technology Wirearchy Work

That there is a ‘best’ way to manage knowledge an information? Take what you need, as there are no “best practices” for complex and personal learning processes. Harold and I have discussed this exact issue before and we are both on the same page that Personal is really important word in Personal Knowledge Management.

In Sense-making with PKM I described some personal knowledge management processes using various web tools. Personal knowledge management is one way of addressing the issue of TMI (too  much information). PKM takes the notion of a personal journal and extends it significantly. Write a Blog post.

That may make Twitter, like blogs, best suited for personal learning environments (PLE) in academia, so that learners can use it for several courses and connect to their non-academic networks as well. Blogs allow this asymmetry but social networks like Facebook don’t. Twitter & blogs foster broadening networks.

Effective knowledge sharing is what many organizations do not do well, or as Lew Platt past-CEO of Hewlett-Packard said, “if only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive&#. That’s the key benefit of personal knowledge management, in my opinion. Tags: Informal Learning Wirearchy

As host of this month’s  Working / Learning Blog Carnival , David Wilkins challenged participants to think about the intersections between working and learning: When does work become learning? When does learning become work? The integration of work and learning is a key part of my professional practice. All we need is the will.

So, where right now in the vast ocean of fuzzy connectivism and informal learning experiences are the products? The resulting products can all be aggregated as part of a personal learning environment. Moving from reading and viewing content to making comments is a way of exchanging information, instead of just consuming it.

In looking at how we can make sense of the growing and changing knowledge in our respective professional fields, I see two parallel processes that support each other. The Web has given us more ways to connect with others in our learning but many people only see the information overload aspect of our digital society. Micro-blogging.

One of the ongoing (and growing) trends in the workplace is the personalization of work … how you, the individual knowledge worker, carry out the work, choose and use the tools with which it is carried out, and fit yourself into the attendant rhythms of collaboration and co-creation built up from processing constant flows of information.

David Eaves writes in Why the Government of Canada needs Bloggers : One theme that came up was that public servants feel they are suffering from information overload. However, blogging is not enough because managing information overload is more a question of attitude than skills. Blog posts & Twitter Posts ).

On 19 February 2004, I went down the rabbit hole and started this blog: This is where I post my thoughts and comments on ideas, events or other writings that are of a professional interest to me. And so I began blogging in earnest, having set up a few others previously, but this time with my own domain and a bit of a plan.

becomes more of a reality in 2009, according to Mike Gott a : the volume of information is growing exponentially, the velocity of business is increasing, the virtualization of the workplace continues. There is a lot to consider and I’m glad that Jon Husband pointed out this blog to me.

I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself? The information in this series has been something I've been presenting, writing, blogging about and more recently doing workshops around. Blogging Inside or Outside the Corporate Firewall ).

Harold Jarche on An educated and informed citizenry. Informal Learning. PKM - Personally Managing Your Knowledge. In looking at how we can make sense of the growing and changing knowledge in our respective professional fields (e.g. Filed under: Informal Learning. -->. AcademicInfo Blog.

In the meantime, I'm spending more time blogging and in virtual sessions. But, I've increased my blogging and writing and decreased my speaking. Retooling my knowledge I've been paid to be a CTO type consultant on a broad range of topics. What is the form of informal learning? Biggest challenges for 2007? Still not sure.

George Siemens recent post - Formal and informal.control vs foster discusses the move from mainstream, controlled information to consumer generated information. His examples include: Mainstream media -> YouTube Mainstream press -> Blogs Microsoft Office -> Office 2.0 But take a look at my post around eLearning 1.0

The Learning Circuits Blog Question for December has been posted. Some of the more specific memories from 2006: I started my blog in February 2006. had a real "aha experience" after using add-ins to provide features inside my blog. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. started using del.icio.us