Personal Knowledge Management was a term coined by Jason Frand and Carol Hixon at UCLA’s Anderson School for business. It was developed as a way for MBA students to be able to search, categorize, store, retrieve, and use knowledge using personal computers.
Several things contributed to a need for this discipline at this time. For one thing, computers of the time stored information on floppy discs. There was a rapidly growing volume of information available on the Web, but it was poorly indexed and web search tools were primitive.
Thus students needed a way to maintain an external index of files that they had created or found online.
Frand and Hixon proposed a single schema that would allow students to categorize and find both digital information and physical information in the form of papers, periodicals, and books.
While Frand and Hixon mainly emphasize information archiving and retrieval, the do include a few paragraphs about knowledge sharing using a diagram from Nonaka and Takeuchi.
SOURCE: Frand Hixon, 1999 Personal Knowledge Management : Who, What, Why, When, Where, How?
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A general note on Personal Knowledge Management
Nonaka and Takeuch talk about a systemic approach to converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge using the Knowledge spiral for communication of information
This was all taking place around the same time that people were talking about information farming and hypertext gardens. SEE Origins of the digital garden
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