Google Apps for Personal Knowledge Management

1. Google App’s for Personal
Knowledge Management (PKM)
Naheem K.T
Central Library, Pondicherry
Central University, Puducherry

2. Outline of Presentation
 Introduction
 PKM Defined?
 Need of PKM
 Objective of the Paper
 PKM Skills
 Tools for PKM
 Google App’s for PKM
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 Managing and enabling knowledge is key to
success in our economy and society. Supporting
individuals in their personal knowledge
management is therefore crucial. Current manual
tools for personal knowledge management have
its own limitations. There fore, we have to use the
current internet or web technology to overcome
the management issues correlated with the
present day knowledge society. Now a day Google
provides variety of applications which are suitable
to manage all spheres human life and work.
 The present paper is intended to explore the
usefulness of Google App’s for managing the
personal knowledge in the day to day work and
life.

4. PKM Defined?
 Personal Knowledge refers to any kind of
knowledge which is constructed, refined
and used by a person during his or her
activity. Managing and enabling
knowledge is crucial for all round growth
and development of any individual in our
society.
 PKM is a collection of processes that an
individual learner needs to carry out in
order to gather, classify, store, search,
and retrieve knowledge in one daily
activity.

5. Need of PKM
PKM helps individuals to cope up/
overcome the barriers which is the
out come of issues related to–
 Information overload, and
 Changing nature of work and
Pressure.

6. Objective of the Paper
To identify the useful Google App’s for
Personal Knowledge Management.

7. PKM Skills
Following are the skills needed for
effective PKM-
 Retrieve information, / Knowledge
 Evaluate information / Knowledge
 Organize information / Knowledge
 Collaborate around information /
Knowledge
 Analyse information / Knowledge
 Present information / Knowledge and
 Secure information / Knowledge
Ref: Information skills Proppsed by : Chilton (2008)

8. Tools for PKM
 Traditional tools like notes, calendar
entries, work dairies etc are have its own
inherited limitations. To over come this
issues now we can adopt the latest web
tools.
 Among the new web tools, Google and its
associated applications (Google App’s)
have wide range of applicability in our day
to day work and life.

9. Google App’s for PKM
Following are the Google App’s which we
can use in various stages of PKM:
Tools for Search & Retrieve :
 Google Search
 Google Scholar
Tool for Storage
 Google Drive
Contin..

10. Google App’s for PKM
Tools for Communication:
 Gmail
 Hangouts
 Calendar
 Google+
Contin..

11. Google App’s for PKM
Tools for Collaboration:
 Docs
 Sheets
 Forms
 Slides
 Sites

12. Conclusion
This paper has proposed some of the Google App’s
which are useful for managing knowledge among
individuals in their daily work and life. These tools
offer ample technological pop up for collaborative
work that considerably extends the cognitive
abilities of individual and the group in terms to
work across major human limitations to manage
the volume and detail of information, geographic
distance, asynchronous working hours, and even
language. It is proposed that further research
may be carried out to check the possibility of the
application of more web tools like SNS for better
management of personal knowledge.

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