Body surfing in Lake Erie is described as an enjoyable exercise where one rides waves that are never the same twice and learns from trusted friends about timing, selection, and position. While the waves connect people, technology has increased the frequency and sources of waves today. PKM is an important conscious process for managing the large volume of information available, especially with tools to augment, refine, and make work more efficient. Social media can be a useful tool when chosen appropriately for connecting with others and building community.

2. Body surfing in lake Erie
• Enjoyable exercise.
• Wave after wave, never-ending but never the
same twice.
• Trusted friends. share enjoyment and learn
from – timing, selection and position
• Discriminate or risk exhaustion
We rode the waves but are not one with them.
And the waves were all a mix of previous
waves and all connected.
Of course there was no technology and today
the waves come more frequently and from
every direction.

3. What:
Personal - your choice, your methods, personal ...but connected
and dependent on others
Knowledge - in the know, expertise ... but in a state of ever change.
Knowledge is not within individuals but between them, in our
conversations and interactions.
Management - to control, to oversee ... but really uncontrollable. A
loose grip on information. Willing to let it go is key. Look what’s
changing in management – open dialogs, collaboration

4. You're already engaging in PKM
you do it unconsciously with or without tools.
However you likely do not do it efficiently or as
extensively as you should especially with the
volume of information available today. PKM is
a conscious process. It begins in really knowing
what you want. It calls upon tools that serve to
manage the flood of information. The tools
and processes, as all tools and process, do
serve to augment, refine, make repeatable and
ultimately make more ease of work.

5. We use tools
Make work easier
Solve problems
Speed things up

6. Social media is a tool

7. Choose the tool for you

8. What’s the difference between PKM and
Curation?
Curation is within PKM
PKM for self, Curation for others. But others
are necessary for PKM
Your knowledge sense-making efforts are
purposeful and consistent. Your efforts to
connect build community

9. Why - society
Consumer empowerment: Ex: Healthcare reform –
Affordable Health Care Act. Like it or not the goal
appears to be to have consumers become more
responsible for their choices
1. Health choices: exercise, diet, smoking, drinking
2. Decision-making: Ask questions of
providers, don’t trust on face value
3. Consumerization of IT – BYOD
4. 401K
Social Media: Extends and expands conversation.
Makes visible what was once invisible.
A vibrant Social Network doesn’t just reduce
training, it can relegate it to where it belongs and
serve to improve it

10. Your habitats:
Obvious - correct information is readily
available and never changes. - Automated
Complicated - correct information easy to
find, slowly changes. - Outsourced
Complex - correct information difficult to
find, change is continual (pattern) – Networks
Probe, sense, react
Chaotic - correct information is rarely
known, change is constant (patternless)

11. Life span of Fortune 500 companies
Residue vs. Retention Strategy

12. Why – society
Social Traffic increasing, organization search
flatlining. We are leaning on trusted networks
rather than haphazard search
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/17/r
eport-past-year-search-traffic-dropped-social-
traffic-doubled/#!qgxVh

13. Cooperation/Collaboration
Community
Sharing

14. My Tools Today:
Feedspot - not a command to fill the dog bowl
Evernote - dog walking notes, chrome
plugin, sharing
Diigo – open social bookmarking site
Google drive – collaborative tools
Blogger - sense & share
Tweetbot (twitter) mobile is social medias
main vehicle
Twitter- seek-sense-share (find, process, share
w/context)
IFTT
Say-n-Go
Hojoki

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