Personal Knowledge Management
Laura Larsson
Cedar Collaboration
November 6, 2004
Agenda
• Personal Knowledge Management (7 competencies)
• Comparing competencies
• PKM Competencies Instrument - How good are your PKM competencies?
What Do We Need to Know To…
• Be a competent and literate member of the information society?
• Find, organize, retrieve and disseminate the information we need/have?
• Cope with the vast amounts of information we are bombarded with each day (InfoGlut) ?
• Manage our own knowledge efficiently?
What is Personal Knowledge Management?
• It is a system or strategy designed by individuals to – Organize and integrate personally important
information – transform random pieces of information into
something that can be systematically applied and that expands our personal knowledge
• Similar to information literacy
Seven PKM Competencies
• Based on work done by Paul Dorsey, et al., Millikin University
• Acquiring information and ideas
• Evaluating information and ideas
• Organizing information and ideas
• Analyzing information and ideas
Seven Areas, continued…
• Cpnveying information and ideas
• Collaborating around information and ideas; and
• Securing information and ideas• Source:Paul Dorsey, Millikin University, Decatur,
IL. Dorsey (http://www.millikin.edu/)
Basis of Information Literacy• a set of abilities• "[I]nformation literate people are those who
have learned how to learn • …”they know how knowledge is organized,
how to find information, and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning."
• Source: American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report. (Chicago: ALA), 1989.
Comments
• Many of the information literacy resources stop at presenting methods for assuring that you can keep information and ideas
• But, PKM gives you tools and hints for finding, evaluating, organizing, analyzing, presenting, collaborating and securing information and ideas
Information Literacy vs Informatics Competencies
• Council on Linkages Competencies Project
• Public Health Informatics Competencies
Council on Linkages
Council Competencies
Council Competencies Highlighted Today
• Defines a problem (acquiring) • Identifies relevant and appropriate data and
information sources (acquiring) • Partners with communities to attach meaning to
collected quantitative and qualitative data (collaborating)
• Makes relevant inferences from quantitative and qualitative data (evaluating)
• Source: Council on Linkages Competencies Project. [online] Site URL: http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list.htm
Competencies, continued…
• Obtains and interprets information regarding risks and benefits to the community (acquiring)
• Applies data collection processes, information technology applications, and computer systems storage/retrieval strategies (organizing)
• Recognizes how the data illuminates ethical, political, scientific, economic, and overall public health issues (evaluating)
Informatics Competencies
Informatics Competencies Highlighted Today
• (1) Digital literacy (acquiring, organizing)• (2) Electronic communications (collaborating)• (3) Selection and use of IT tools (today’s focus)• (4) Online information utilization (acquiring)• (9) Information and knowledge development
(analyzing, conveying)• Source: Public Health Informatics Competencies. [Online] Site
URL:http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/phi/comps/competencies.html. Site visited: 08/09/04.
So What?!?
• We will be learning about resources that we will want to keep going back to and use
• My role is to discuss some relatively simple and inexpensive techniques and tools to manage information
AM/PM
• AM – Look at applications for finding, organizing,
using and conveying/disseminating information
• PM– Retrieving and using the information you’ve
already found
How Good Are Your PKM Competencies?
• Baseline PKM competencies
• Take the survey home with you
• Fill it out and determine your skill level
• Ask for training materials if you need additional help
• Plan on learning constantly
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