More and more is written on the subject Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM), such as Harold Jarche‘s site and PKM link collection, and blog posts like this week’s What is Personal Knowledge Management? Harold has also collected a great set of tools others use for their Personal Knowledge Mastery.
Inspired by Sumeet Moghe‘s blog post Here’s how I’m approaching Personal Knowledge Management, I decided to list the tools and processes I use to handle my own Personal Knowledge Mastery. I just started doing this in a structured way, so the tools and processes will change. This is, however, where I stand today:
Step One: Seek
– As for Sumeet Moghe, Google Reader Feedly and Twitter are my foremost collection methods. To make things even easier, I connect my Google Reader account to FeedDemon thanks to its ability to save “Watches”, i.e. saved searches. I prefer to access Twitter via HootSuite, thanks to the great UI. Lots of opportunities to structure feeds via tabs gives me more than enough to look through.
Step Two: Sense
– I skim through all new postings 2-3 times a day, and when I want to save something and tag it so I can find it again, I send the links to Delicious Evernote. When I see some trends emerging, or I sense that two or more areas should be connected, I use Microsoft’s OneNote at work and Dropbox Google Drive privately to save my writings in the cloud.
Step Three: Share
– My primary ways of sharing, except for structured and casual meetings at work, are my twitter account and this blog. I use WordPress on my site, thanks to its ease-of-use.
It would be interesting to hear more about what tools and processes other use. The more we share about this, the better we can make sense of the constant flow of information that surrounds us.
Patrik,
How is PKM working for you now? Also, looking at Seek and perhaps also Share, what are the key things you think are important (skills, behaviours etc) for a member of digital network? I am thinking here about how I can refine my seek tools and also engage with others in a way to add the most value to myself and them.
Daniel, it is working well I believe but it took some time to find the right tools and flow. Regarding skills needed, I guess learning how to maximize the use of Twitter, Feedly and the like, but more importantly learning whom to listen to. All channels can produce more noise than signal, but used correctly be wonderful tools. For example dare to unfollow people and feeds in order to focus more. How do you work with PKM?