As a part of a doctoral class that I’m teaching, we’ve been engaging in the subject of personal knowledge management (PKM). I created three modules for the course, which I’ve made available to anyone who cares to watch, in the open spirit of PKM.
PKM Module
1) An introduction to personal knowledge management
PKM Articles and Blogs from Students
The doctoral cohort is beginning to explore PKM on their own, now. They have found some terrific blogs and articles on the subject, which really exemplifies the positive attributes of the final stage of PKM. Below are some of the articles they shared that caught my attention.
“Working out loud”: Your personal content strategy, by John Stepper (www.twitter.com/johnstepper)
http://johnstepper.com/2012/05/26/working-out-loud-your-personal-content-strategy/
Stepper challenges people to work beyond the two most common objections to implementing a PKM: lack of adequate time and uncertainty as to what to post. He provides a definition for “working out loud” (originally introduced by Bryce Williams) as: “Narrating your work + observable work.”
“Being able to work out loud allows employees to make connections – finding people and content relevant to their work – like never before. (Stepper, 2012).
Why PKM? by Harold Jarche (www.twitter.com/hjarche)
While I link to many articles and videos by Harold Jarche in the class, this is one I hadn’t referenced. The student who posted it said it really filled in the holes for her and helped bring new understanding to the practice of PKM. Jarche argues why PKM is essential in today’s networked era. Work is no longer standardized, but instead customized, and requires people to “constantly improve their talents and focus on initiative and creativity” (Jarche, 2014).
Let me know if you have any good resources on PKM in your archives, or if you enjoyed watching the online modules.
I’m thrilled to find your blog. I am a librarian and co-author a blog called Academic PKM (http://academicpkm.org), and am thrilled to find other blogs on the topic. Every month or so I publish Links Roundup posts, and will be mentioning your blog in one of those posts, though it will be a while before that one gets published. One part of our blog in particular might be useful to you and your students. During 2013 we ran a free “course” called a Year to Improved Productivity”. It consisted of 26 lessons, one every other week, in the categories of PKM, Academic Workflow, and Learning Networks. It has its own page on the blog.
Anyway, this is to let you know you have a fan, and I’ll be working through some of your posts and lessons as I have time.
What a pleasure to learn of your work, as well, Mary. Thanks for introducing yourself and letting me know about AcademicPkm.org. It looks like a terrific resource that I’ll be diving in to, as well.
In particular, that class would be a terrific tool for my doctoral students. One thing I’m discovering is that, for some of them, they are so overwhelmed in every area of their life/school “worlds” – that adding PKM on top of it is a tough fit… I especially think the email module I saw on there will help a number of them make that communication tool work better for them, as well.
Your comment really made my day. Thank you. I hope we connect again, soon.
Alas the intro pages have disappeared…looked interesting…maybe you could re-publish?
Andi
Thanks for letting me know, Andi. There was an extra space in there… Links work now. I hope you’ll check them out.
Bonni