Erickson (2006) uses the phrase group information management or GIM, for short, to refer to personal information management (PIM) “as it functions in more public spheres.” People acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items to support individual needs. But these PIM activities are usually embedded in group or organizational contexts (Lutters, Ackerman & Zhou, 2007) and people usually perform these activities with sharing in mind (Erickson, 2006). The act of sharing moves personal information into spheres of group activity and also creates tensions that shape what and how the information is shared. The practice and the study of GIM focuses on this interaction between personal information and group contexts.
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