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

Contact Information

• Laura Larsson

• Cedar Collaboration

• larsson@cedarc.info or

• larsson@u.washington.edu