Personal Knowledge Management

There is no common agreement on the definition of knowledge - this is our view...

Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom

- Data represents unorganized and unprocessed facts
- Information is processed data to get some meaning (what, who, when, where)
- Knowledge is human understanding of information by learning and thinking (how)
- Wisdom is knowledge "aged" with experience (why)

PIM vs. PKM

A personal information manager (often referred to as a PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer.

As an information management tool, PIM applications are primarily used to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of certain types of "personal information" (journal, address books, calendar dates (birthdays, meetings), reminders, e-mail).

MS Outlook is probably the best-known PIM in use today.

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is focused on personal productivity improvement for knowledge workers in their working environments. A core focus of PKM is 'personal inquiry', a quest to find, connect, learn, and explore.

PpcSoft iKnow is a Personal Knowledge Management tool, not a PIM.

Our goal is for you to
- collect information from the internet, people, magazines, books etc and
- convert the information into knowledge by
- connect the different pieces of information from different sources with your existing knowledge and understanding.

This will enable you to convert information to knowledge (for you), and also help you create new knowledge by connecting and understanding different pieces of information.

PpcSoft iKnow cannot create knowledge for you, but it can help you collect, connect, convert and create knowledge. Your personal notes will be knowledge for you, but may be considered information for others. Likewise, the wisdom you gain by age and experience is not necessarily written down in PpcSoft iKnow, but the collection of connected knowledge may result in increased wisdom when you combine it with your experience.

We believe knowledge is an individual product - it is a human understanding of information by learning and thinking. The learning is often through connections, dialogue and social interaction, but the thinking is personal (if not it becomes group thinking, and not your personal view).

Once you attain this knowledge (or even better, wisdom), it can be expressed and shared in many ways, both through social media and through knowledge management systems.

Shared knowledge is not automatically common knowledge - people still need to find, read and adopt the shared knowledge.

PpcSoft iKnow is designed to help you collect, connect, convert and create knowledge - personal knowledge - how you use it and share it is up to you !