Knowledge Management Links
Oh yeah, managing all that incoming and self-generated information can leave you with scattered info all over the place. What do you do with all that stuff? I save webpages as bookmarks, keep well organized computer and paper files, and cut and paste information I want to keep into my email drafts and into this blog. There must be a better way! Below are some links about knowledge management concepts and tools.
Knowledge Management
- A wikipedia article with an overview about what knowledge management is.
- Amy Gahran takes a more in depth look at what a PKM is and why we need it.
- Dave Pollard imagines his perfect km system, complete with a diagram and an explanation. I surfed to many of the links on this page from the comments on this post.
Personal Knowledge Management Services and Software Applications
- Haystack says it is the “Universal information client.” You can check out the screen shots and see if you get what that means on a practical level.
- Tinderbox: an application for the mac that uses XML.
- Content Saver: “Software for web research and information gathering.”
- Omea is a free rss and atom feed reader which comes with more organizing abilities with the paid version.
- Onfolio has an educational version which copies and organizes pdfs into searchable versions and works with endnote.
- Smart Channel says it is a tool which would make it possible to use your blog or “channel” as a km system.
Going beyond personal knowledge management to group km
- Read about a BBC experiment which allows users to tag a page. There is a prototype you can try it out on. This is a very cool idea.
Further Links
- Amy Gahran has some crazy (like a fox :) ideas about sparking creativity with a km system.
- Eva Kaplan-Leiserson has a list of links that pertain to KM. I found some good stuff there including the above link to Amy Gahran.
- An interesting post from Rashni Sinha about the cognitive processes involved in tagging.
Thanks for the kickstart. Knowledge management is one of the topics I plan to include in the web site I’m working on.
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Cool, I look forward to your views. I am still looking for an optimal system.
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