PKM skills can be boiled down to
- Capturing information
- Developing information
- Sharing information
Or as Harold Jarche puts it, “Seek – Sense – Share”
Particular skills include:
- Researching
- Note-taking
- Classifying information
- Memorization
- Networking
- Diagraming
- Communication
The essential abilities are how to collect meaningful information from reliable sources and process it in a way that makes it useful to others, when it is needed.
One of the essential skills that I haven’t seen mentioned often, is how to avoid information hoarding and how to declutter one’s knowledge base.
Note that PKM skills were formalized into seven areas by Paul Dorsey:
- Retrieving Information
- Evaluating Information
- Organizing Information
- Collaborating Around Information
- Analyzing Information
- Presenting Information
- Securing Information
Though I think the domain is more open-ended, and has more emergent processes than when Dorsey wrote this, I think in the 1990s: Personal Knowledge Management: Educational Framework for Global Business
SOURCE: Stan Garfield Personal Knowledge Management: How to Do It, with 25 resources and 10 books on PKM
Also On Wild Rye
Knowledge doesn’t become knowledge until you run it past The People in Your PKM
For a general overview on the topic, see note on Personal Knowledge Management
For PKM skills that support the knowledge spiral, see Eight tactics for effective PKM
For a big list of PKM tools see my blog post Roundup of 66 Tools for Thought to Build Your Second Brain
