Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) — Why and How Overview

Ed Nico
7 min readDec 31, 2020

The best place to start may be a brief description of what Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) means and how it can help you to grow and develop.

Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a process of collecting information that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve and share knowledge in their daily activities ( Grundspenkis 2007) and the way in which these processes support work activities ( Wright 2005). It is a response to the idea that knowledge workers need to be responsible for their own growth and learning ( Smedley 2009). It is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management (KM) ( Pollard 2008).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_management

It is important to note that we will not develop or learn by simply gathering (or hoarding) resources / information. To grow our personal knowledge, we must digest the information gathered and turn this into ideas that can help us grow to meet our goals and objectives and advance our projects. It is also vital to combine our prior knowledge and experiences with newly learned information to continue to grow and expand our knowledge.

Process

In visual terms, this is how I see it:

PKM flow as I see it

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Ed Nico

Posting about personal knowledge management (PKM) and Tools for Thought (TFT) along with some other stuff along the way.