Tools
Some organizations are now introducing PKM 'systems' with some or all of four components:
- Just-in-time Canvassing - templates and e-mail canvassing lists that enable people to identify and connect with the appropriate experts and expertise quickly and effectively
- Knowledge harvesting - software tools that automatically collect appropriate knowledge residing on subject matter experts' hard drives
- Content management tools - taxonomy processes and desktop search tools that enable employees to subscribe to, find, organize, and publish information that resides on their desktops
- Personal Productivity Improvement - knowledge fairs and one-on-one training sessions to help each employee make more effective personal use of the knowledge, learning, and technology resources available in the context of their work
PKM has also been linked to these tools:
- social bookmarking and enterprise social bookmarking
- knowledge logs (K-logs)
- e-mail, calendars, task managers
- Online Web Assistants
- Wikis
- Desktop wikis
- Personal wikis
- Semantic wikis
Other useful tools include Open Space Technology, cultural anthropology, stories and narrative, mindmaps, concept maps and eco-language, and single frames and similar visualization techniques. Individuals use these tools to capture and ideas, expertise, experience, opinions, or thoughts, and this 'voicing' will encourage cognitive diversity and promote free exchanges away from a centralized policed knowledge repository. The goal is to facilitate knowledge sharing and personal content management.
Read more about this topic: Personal Knowledge Management
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