“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. Innovation.

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. Keep shipping.

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.

by pointing to things on Twitter or leaving bookmarks at a social bookmarking site), you can put together what’s interesting to them and what their resulting thoughts are, and start seeing the trajectory of their thinking and learning. meta-learning socialSimilarly, here, with a difference.

I started Friday’s Finds three years ago , in an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit. had been using Twitter actively for over a year at this time and realized that I was not making much sense of it. The actual tools I use for personal knowledge management are quite limited. That’s about it.

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. The knowledge gained from PKM is an emergent property of all its activities. Management – getting things done.

After having put together last couple of blog posts about some of my reflections from the year we are about to end around The Social Web and Technology in general, I guess it’s now a good time to share with the world the third one from the series. Rather technology fails, or The Social Web user experience fails. Or both! Really?

Like I have mentioned yesterday, it’s been a few days already since I jumped the shark and joined the bunch of early adopters who have been hammering down, and taking for a spin, the latest iteration of Google to get social with Google Plus , right after Google Wave and Google Buzz. am a big fan of Twitter, as most folks know already.

Using a Seek-Sense-Share framework (à la personal knowledge management), pick one or more web platforms on which to practise critical thinking. Use an aggregator (feed reader) to keep track of online conversations Follow interesting people on Twitter. Use Social Bookmarks (set them free). Connect via Twitter.

Using a Seek-Sense-Share framework (à la personal knowledge management), pick one or more web platforms on which to practise critical thinking. Use an aggregator (feed reader) to keep track of online conversations Follow interesting people on Twitter. Use Social Bookmarks (set them free). Join Social Networks.

Yesterday evening, my time, I attended a rather interesting webcast with Sandy Carter , IBM’s Worldwide Sales Vice President, IBM Social Business, Collaboration, and Lotus Sales and Evangelism, along with Jeremiah Owyang , Industry Analyst at Altimeter Group , on the topic of Why Be Social? first came about. … No? flavours.

It was one of those great presentations that makes you think about the daily challenges we all face when confronting work and our own productivity and how by shifting gears and opening up to social tools, we may find plenty of solutions to the problems we face today. Look no further. It’s that good! Not the content they produce.

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. Social learning is about getting things done in networks. The closest people are not always the best sources of knowledge. Social bookmarks (e.g., Vimeo).

Tweet George Siemens calls it information management (what I describe as PKM). specifically use the term information instead of knowledge. We encounter a continual flow of information – most of it will never become “knowledge”. For sure, merely tagging an article does not create knowledge.

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. As much as I may add feeds into my RSS reader , bookmark web pages or upload photos , these are nothing more than senseless digital constructs until I put them to use.

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. This still sums up the core concept of PKM.

“Every amateur epistemologist knows that knowledge cannot be managed. Education has always assumed that knowledge can be transferred and that we can carefully control the process through education. While knowledge cannot be managed, we can work at managing our own knowledge. David Jonassen.

Please pass this on to people in the area who might need an introduction to social media, without any hype or sales pitch. Workshop #1: Social media for training & education (9:00 AM to noon). Focus: understanding web social media and how they can be used for training, education and personal learning.

Aggregate Filter Connect Observations & Notes Information Knowledge Sources of Info & Knowledge Annotate, Tag, List, File, Classify, Clarify, Expand, Question People – People Ideas – Ideas People – Ideas Why PKM? Informal, social learning is the primary way that knowledge is created in the workplace.

Personal Knowledge Management. Knowledge = the capacity for effective action (know how). Management = how to get things done. Knowledge. Sources of Info & Knowledge. Informal, social learning is the primary way that knowledge is created in the workplace. What is PKM? Aggregate. Filter.

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. In 1986 the answer was typically about 75%.

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). Follow interesting people on Twitter. Use Social Bookmarks. Find a Twitter App to suit your needs.

In my view, smart working is the outcome of designing and putting in place systems, working environments and governance principles that are known to be associated with effective business performance, including workforce autonomy and self-determination, and which seek to maximise opportunities to use and develop people’s knowledge, skills.

Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. eLearning Learning Hot List May 1, 2009 to May 31, 2009 Here is the best stuff from May 2009 via the eLearning Learning site. Hope you enjoy. Clive on Learning , May 29, 2009 Implementing New Learning Technology? Tony Bates , May 8, 2009 Learning 2.0

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. On the Net, chance favours the prepared mind.

People learn socially. 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. Tags are labels that can be attached to digital knowledge objects and an objects can have many labels. Social. Bookmarks.

However, blogging is not enough because managing information overload is more a question of attitude than skills. Blogs, or their equivalent, are only one part of the knowledge management equation. think that public servants really need PKM ( personal knowledge management ). social bookmarks ).

Stuart Henshall had asked on Twitter about ideas for posts. There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. It's always interesting to hear the perspective of someone with a background in Knowledge Management discussing these things.

Sure, many of these efforts are naïve and overly-simplistic, but these people are smart, fast learners, so their lack of knowledge and understanding of education doesn't last long. Not only that, but they are hiring teachers and educators for their staff, management, and advisory boards. 2007 is finally over. HD learning? Web 3.0