PKM 2009

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Knowledge Management (KM) deals with creating and exchanging knowledge within groups of persons in organisational contexts. The potentials and needs of the individual is often not in the focus of KM efforts, although no-one would deny that the individual as knowledge bearer, -user and -creator is naturally the most essential part of knowledge management. The main goal of PKM is make the individual more productive - and thereby the organisation as a whole.

The term Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) has two main dimensions:


 * Personal Knowledge - Ultimately, all knowledge is personal knowledge. Following the tradition of Nonaka&Takeuchis spiral model (and later Ba model) knowledge resides partially in the minds of people and can partially be codified as external artifacts. PKM investigates the use of methods and tools to amplify the abilities of the individual to work better with knowledge. E.g.
 * recall previously learned knowledge faster (or at all) when it is required
 * model personal knowledge and beliefs with external modeling tools to derive new insights (MS Excel is often used for this today)
 * strategies for filing ideas to retrieve them when needed


 * Personal Management - Management is a systematic approach to define goals, measure, define and execute actions and repeat this control loop until the goal is reached. Different from traditional management, in personal management one has to manage oneself. This involves the problem of fulfilling two roles (executing and managing) and learning when and how to switch between them. Typical management problems in PKM are e.g.
 * time and task management
 * matching work habits with personal productivity level variations
 * investing time into personal learning and PKM improvements
 * work-life balance

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Research questions

 * How can an individual effectively and efficiently use external tools to amplify his abilities to handle knowledge in large quantities and /or with high complexity?
 * How can the individual support, structure and improve his personal knowledge management and individual knowledge creation,-modeling, -usage and -development?
 * How can the conflict between personal goals (e.g. motivation) and the goals of an organisation (e.g. efficient knowledge sharing, productivity) be tackled or even resolved?

Foundational questions such as


 * theoretical foundations of PKM (e.g. from cognitive psychology, cognitive ergonomics, etc.),
 * extension of established KM-methods with PKM-specific aspects,
 * results from work sciences about characteristics of and potential for support of individual knowledge work,
 * legal questions (e.g. which knowledge must be shared or may not be shared, privacy issues arising from user observation by tools)
 * relations of PKM to related topics (e. g. ePortfolio and competence/skill management and development),
 * methods for self-management and PKM key competencies (e.g. time management, task management, stress management, social networking).

Methods and tools such as


 * those for personal knowledge articulation (e.g. knowledge mapping, editable visualisations, step-wise formalisation),
 * personal wikis, semantics desktop, personal storage and search solutions,
 * extending PIM tools and methods for PKM, creativity tools and personal idea management,
 * innovative use of new technologies (e.g. mobile devices, speech recognition, ePaper),
 * the link from personal to shared knowledge models,
 * tools for computer-supported personal work (CSPW) in contrast to and combination with CSCW.

Applications and case studies such as


 * long-term studies,
 * lab experiments,
 * products and best practices,
 * evaluation of personal knowledge work and supporting tools

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Hi, I have been visiting your site often, reenctly, as I am interested because I have been a voice hearer my whole life. However, in the past 12 years the voices have become a big part of my life. I heard them for about eight years, and I told myself they were simply my brain's way of making sense out of the ambient noise in the background coming from household appliances or items, such as fans, air conditioners, dryers, aquarium pumps, and other mechanical equipment that creates a white noise. The problem is the noise really sounds like voices speaking sentences and calling my name, and the more I ignored the voices' throughout my life, the louder and more sensible or word-like they sounded. Now, I cannot go anywhere without hearing voices that are as loud as screaming whispers. I guess what I am trying to say is, I have noticed what seems different about me from other members on the site is that I don't hear voices in my head. I have only heard a few voices that sounded internal rather than external, so I think I know what that is like, too. Because those 3 or 4 times I hear the voices in my head frightened me quite a bit. However, the voices I hear daily are unlike the internal voices. The voices I hear all the time I can block out the sound of them with earplugs or loud music; however, they start back up again when I take out the earplugs or turn off the music. I had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder when I was a teenager although the voices were not as loud or incessant as they are now since I can't NOT hear them these days (unless I block them out with earplugs or loud music as I stated). So I fear that auditory hallucinations might have something to do with it. I'm just wondering would this site be useful since I seem to be having a very different experience from some of the other members on the forum. Is there anyone else who has experienced the ongoing external voices phenomenon as I have? I am a professor, and it is sometimes hard for me to teach if I start hearing the whispers during my class. I am not afraid of these voices as they sound like deceased relatives and are kind and helpful for the most part, but I do get very fatigued since this is a non-stop part of my daily life. I can't wear ear plugs all the time! And now I cannot sleep without them, so I just don't know what to do since this phenomenon is not showing any signs of letting up, but it is increasing. I just wondered if any others had advice for combating these kind of external voices. There is one other thing that is important, some people around me can hear them, too, but usually if they are at my house where they are often the loudest; I don't know if that makes them voice hearers, too, but I think it is interesting. Anyway, thanks for letting me discuss this here.

Program Committee

 * Prof. has PC member::Marco Bettoni-de Vries, Fernfachhochschule Schweiz (CH)
 * Dr. has PC member::Ernst Biesalski, EnBW AG, Karlsruhe (D)
 * has PC member::Magdalena Böttger, netvibes.com, München (D)
 * has PC member::Lilia Efimova, Telematica Instituut, Enschede (NL)
 * has PC member::Ludger van Elst, DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern (D)
 * has PC member::Anja Flicker, Reinisch GmbH Karlsruhe, (D)
 * Prof. Dr. has PC member::Stefan Güldenberg, WU Wien (A) confirmation pending
 * Dr. has PC member::Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway (IE)
 * Prof. Dr. has PC member::Martin Eppler, Universität Lugano (CH)
 * Dr. has PC member::Claudia Müller, Universität Potsdam (D)
 * Dr. has PC member::Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam (NL) confirmation pending
 * Dr. has PC member::Uwe Riss, SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe (D)
 * has PC member::Martin Roell, Dresden (D)
 * has PC member::Leo Sauermann, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (D)
 * has PC member::Swaran Sandhu, Universität Luzern (CH) confirmation pending
 * Dr. has PC member::Sigmar-Olaf Tergan, ex Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen (D)
 * has PC member::Denny Vrandecic, Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (D)
 * Dr. has PC member::Reinhard Willfort, innovation (AT)
 * has PC member::Ton Zijlstra, independent consultant, Enschede (NL)