#readwise # Personal Knowledge Management - Wikipedia ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article0.00998d930354.png) ## Metadata - Full Title: Personal Knowledge Management - Wikipedia - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_management ## Highlights **Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a process of collecting information that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve and share knowledge in their daily activities** (Grundspenkis 2007) **and the way in which these processes support work activities** (Wright 2005). - Note: Grundspenkis, J. (2007), "Agent based approach for organization and personal knowledge modelling: knowledge management perspective", Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 18 (4): 451–457, doi:10.1007/s10845-007-0052-6, S2CID 6466978. Wright, Kirby (2005), "Personal knowledge management: supporting individual knowledge worker performance", Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 3 (3): 156–165, doi:10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500061, S2CID 58474736. --- Although as early as 1998 Davenport wrote on the importance to worker productivity of understanding individual knowledge processes (cited in Zhang 2009), **the term personal knowledge management appears to be relatively new. Its origin can be traced in a working paper by Frand & Hixon** (1999). ^nxy6bo - Note: Frand, Jason; Hixon, Carol (1999), "Personal Knowledge Management : Who, What, Why, When, Where, How?", Working Paper, UCLA Anderson School of Management, archived from the original on 16 May 2007, retrieved 17 February 2008 --- **PKM integrates personal information management (PIM), focused on individual skills, with knowledge management (KM) in addition to input from a variety of disciplines such as cognitive psychology, management and philosophy** (Pauleen 2009) - Note: Pauleen, David (2009), "Personal knowledge management: putting the 'person' back into the knowledge equation", Online Information Review, 33 (2): 221–224, doi:10.1108/14684520910951177. ---