Personal KM and self-organisation

Talking with Steve Barth on Skype brought me to the PKM section of his website again. Don’t know if he had changed a lot or it’s me who looked at it in a new way because this time I paid attention to something that I left unnoticed before: how Steve connects personal KM and self-organisation.

I’m calling this work “self-organization” because it lets me make three key points about personal knowledge management: that you don’t have to be organized to be effective; that these days the “self” is the basic organizational unit; and that self-organizing systems are the nature of professional teams and communities today—and therefore the foundation of knowledge work.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/11/02.html#a1408; comments are here.

• Outliner use patterns
• Email triage, focusing on not important and learning to use tools effectively
• My pattern-recognition techniques

Tagged as: emergence, personal knowledge management