Title: Personal Knowledge Management Column (New this Issue)

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Section/SPIG: Health Administration

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This is a new column devoted to personal applications and information that you, as an individual knowledge worker, can use to improve your information productivity without necessarily relying on your IT staff. The short articles and hints contained in this section will follow a framework originally developed by Prof. Paul Dorsey at Millikin University, <www.millikin.edu/>, in Decatur, Ill.

Dorsey’s framework consists of seven areas: 1. Accessing information and ideas; 2. Evaluating information and ideas; 3. Organizing information and ideas; 4. Analyzing information and ideas; 5. Conveying information and ideas; 6. Collaborating around information and ideas; and 7. Securing information and ideas, and is an attempt to combine computer literacy with information literacy. It’s an expansion of the: “find, organize, use and disseminate” school of thinking.

Bibliography

Avery, Susan, et al. Personal Knowledge Management: Framework for Integration and Partnerships. September 16, 2001. [online] Site URL: http://www.millikin.edu/pkm/pkm_ascue.html

Dorsey, Paul A. What is PKM? Overview of Personal Knowledge Management. June 14, 2000. . [online] Site URL: http://www.millikin.edu/webmaster/seminar/pkm.html

Pienaar, Heila. Personal Knowledge Management. February 11, 2001. [online] Site URL: http://hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/heilap/knowmant.html