PhD on Personal KM
Lilia Efimova, aka Mathemagenic, is doing PhD research on weblogs and the connection to personal knowledge management, and she is having fun trying to come up with a title that describes what she is trying to do: Personal knowledge productivity or Personal effectiveness in a knowledge intensive environment. The latter sounds more "formally academic."
My interest in this has focused on the "personal knowledge management" tools - how do I combine my wonderful (but sloppy) brain with the new tools out there that help me organize and find things again? Lilia appears to be going in another direction -- that of figuring out how to be both personally effective (with one's knowledge) AND able to communicate that with others. I await her next couple of years worth of reports from the field.
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I'm not going in another direction! :)
The idea is to understand what do we do when we "knowledge work" and to optimise these activities. So far I think about: personal information management, idea management, learning, managing own network and conversations with others... (I'm writing a paper explaining it a bit better, should be ready somewhere in February)
For each of those activitied there are tools that complement our brains, so one of my questions is what tools do you need and how to combine them.
Thanks for the interest!