The most important part of  personal knowledge management  (PKM), in my opinion, is the need for active sense-making. Merely The act of writing a blog post, a tweet, or an annotation on a social bookmark all force you to think a bit more than clicking once and filing it to an automated system. for a specific audience. MORE >>

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. The process is often more important than the product. This strikes me as the core of collaborative knowledge work. I’ve called it my home base. MORE >>

internal processes on wiki starting to use wikis internally Moving faculty bookmarks to Delicious use wiki for learners to craft definition of 'seamless service' after searching orgs that proclaim to provide seamless service We hope to build wikis that our students can use to share information. approaches. These make sense. MORE >>

2010) uses a Web-based note system to store messages, manage his financial risk and stay on top of the multiple factors necessary to run a successful dairy farm. Teams and organizations that can share information faster and make better sense of it are more productive. Social learning is about getting things done in networks. MORE >>

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. MORE >>