scholarly journals Personal Knowledge Management: An Analysis of Benefits and Challenges of Using  Web 2.0 Technologies at the Individual Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rouhollah Fathizargaran
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

<p>This research investigates the benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies (Wikis, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) for personal knowledge management (PKM). It focuses on the challenges and benefits of using these technologies at the individual level to find out how realization of the key benefits and mitigation of challenges can improve personal performance in software engineering companies. This research also investigates the influence of PKM skills proposed by Dorsey (2000) in realising benefits and minimising challenges. Methods of data collection involved semi-structured interviews with three middle level managers and three software developers from four multinational software engineering companies. Qualitative research methods were used for analysing data. To explore benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies for PKM, a general inductive analysis strategy (Thomas, 2006) was used. This approach helped the researcher to derive concepts and themes which emerged from the raw data. Analysis also drew on and extended Dorsey‟s PKM skill model (2000) to identify which benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies can be addressed by PKM skills. Results from this study highlighted three important benefits of using Web 2.0 technologies for PKM: improved time saving, improved collaboration, and improved communication across hierarchical barriers. Ease of use of technologies and ease of organising information were found to be enablers of the technologies for effective management of personal knowledge. Results also showed four important challenges of using Web 2.0 tools for PKM: inaccurate and inappropriate information, lack of participation, lack of knowledge about the nature of technologies, and security sensitive. Findings of this study highlighted the importance of PKM skills to realise benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and minimise their challenges. The benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies have direct impact on individual performances. If employees are aware of these challenges, and have appropriate PKM skills, they will be able to improve their individual performances. The researcher suggests an extension of the Dorsey‟s PKM skill model (2000). Furthermore, in order to enable better understanding about the impact of PKM skills on individual performances using Web 2.0 tools a tentative model is proposed at the end of the study, which needs to be further explored in future studies.</p>

scholarly journals Personal Knowledge Management: An Analysis of Benefits and Challenges of Using  Web 2.0 Technologies at the Individual Level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rouhollah Fathizargaran
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

<p>This research investigates the benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies (Wikis, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) for personal knowledge management (PKM). It focuses on the challenges and benefits of using these technologies at the individual level to find out how realization of the key benefits and mitigation of challenges can improve personal performance in software engineering companies. This research also investigates the influence of PKM skills proposed by Dorsey (2000) in realising benefits and minimising challenges. Methods of data collection involved semi-structured interviews with three middle level managers and three software developers from four multinational software engineering companies. Qualitative research methods were used for analysing data. To explore benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies for PKM, a general inductive analysis strategy (Thomas, 2006) was used. This approach helped the researcher to derive concepts and themes which emerged from the raw data. Analysis also drew on and extended Dorsey‟s PKM skill model (2000) to identify which benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies can be addressed by PKM skills. Results from this study highlighted three important benefits of using Web 2.0 technologies for PKM: improved time saving, improved collaboration, and improved communication across hierarchical barriers. Ease of use of technologies and ease of organising information were found to be enablers of the technologies for effective management of personal knowledge. Results also showed four important challenges of using Web 2.0 tools for PKM: inaccurate and inappropriate information, lack of participation, lack of knowledge about the nature of technologies, and security sensitive. Findings of this study highlighted the importance of PKM skills to realise benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and minimise their challenges. The benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 technologies have direct impact on individual performances. If employees are aware of these challenges, and have appropriate PKM skills, they will be able to improve their individual performances. The researcher suggests an extension of the Dorsey‟s PKM skill model (2000). Furthermore, in order to enable better understanding about the impact of PKM skills on individual performances using Web 2.0 tools a tentative model is proposed at the end of the study, which needs to be further explored in future studies.</p>

scholarly journals Studentų personalinių žinių valdymas naudojant saityno 2.0 technologijas

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Gintarė Tautkevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Individual Ability ◽  
Individual Use ◽  
The Individual

Šiuolaikinis požiūris į personalių žinių valdymą apima tiek individui svarbių žinių organizavimo, informacijos prasmės suvokimo, naujų idėjų kūrimo procesus, tiek socialinių tinklų kūrimo ir palaikymo, bendradarbiavimo, dalijimosi ir sąveikos veiklas. Personalinis žinių valdymas svarbus kiekvieno individo gyvenime, nes akcentuoja gebėjimą mokytis, efektyviai dirbti ir dalyvauti socialinėje veikloje. Svarbus personalinių žinių valdymo aspektas – leisti individams geriau valdyti savo asmeninių žinių procesus, sąveiką, bendradarbiavimą ir žinių mainus. Saityno 2.0 (angl. web 2.0) technologijos suteikia įrankius ir naujas galimybes personalinėms žinioms valdyti. Interaktyvūs įrankiai leidžia individams kurti, sisteminti, tvarkyti ir dalytis žiniomis, suteikia platesnes galimybes ir efektyvesnes socializacijos, bendravimo, bendradarbiavimo priemones. Personalinių žinių valdymas svarbus ne tik individo ir organizacijos žinių valdymo procesams tobulinti, bet ir siekiant sukurti studijoms universitete palankią aplinką. Straipsnyje aptariamas tyrimas, atskleidžiantis studentų naudojimosi saityno 2.0 technologijomis ypatumus.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: žinių valdymas, personalinių žinių valdymas, saitynas 2.0, komunikacija, bendravimas, bendradarbiavimas, mokymasis, studentai, universitetas. Students’ personal knowledge management using web 2.0 technologiesGintarė Tautkevičienė SummaryModern approach to personal knowledge management involves a range of competences that individual use to acquire knowledge, make sense of information, negotiate meaning, create new ideas, organize their knowledge processes as well as share, extend personal networks, collaborate among the knowledge. Personal knowledge management is important for everybody because it focuses on the individual ability to learn, work efficiently and socialise. An important aspect of personal knowledge management is to allow the individual better manage their personal knowledge processes, interaction, collaboration and knowledge sharing with others. Web 2.0 technologies provides the tools and new opportunities for individual to create, organize, manage and share knowledge, as well as provides opportunities and means for a wider and more effective socialisation, communication, collaboration. Web 2.0 technologies provide tools for students that allow more efficient personal knowledge management processes as well as enable spaces to extend their personal learning environments.    

Teachers' Personal Knowledge Management in China Based Web 2.0 Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 76-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingyuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Management Practice ◽  
Work Efficiency ◽  
Chinese Teachers ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management

Knowledge is taken as core competitive power in the current society. The teacher as an educational operator often touch much knowledge, if they could manage knowledge efficiently, the work efficiency will be increased greatly. To mine knowledge and make tacit knowledge explicit, teachers should manage personal knowledge. By the survey of teachers’ personal knowledge management in China, the study finds some problems in terms of Chinese teachers’ personal knowledge management, especially many Chinese teachers are not good at making use of Web technologies to assist them on managing knowledge and communicating with other teachers. One studying focus of Web 2.0 technologies is personal knowledge management, and Web 2.0 provides a series of effective tools and platforms for personal knowledge management. The chapter discusses on the concept of teachers’ personal knowledge management, and presents the strategies of teachers’ personal knowledge management based Web 2.0 technologies, using for reference for teachers’ personal knowledge management practice.

Implementing Web 2.0 tools in organisations

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin James Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – This special issue aims to increase the awareness of the organisational factors that enterprises must reflect on and address when introducing Web 2.0 technologies into their organisations. In contrast to empirical studies that review the impact of Web 2.0 technologies in organisations in terms of how they might support knowledge sharing or communities of practice, this special issue intends to identify the salient criteria that management practitioners must address to assist in the implementation of Web 2.0 technologies in the work place. Design/methodology/approach – This special issue aims to increase the awareness of the organisational factors that enterprises must reflect on and address when introducing Web 2.0 technologies into their organisations. In contrast to empirical studies that review the impact of Web 2.0 technologies in organisations in terms of how they might support knowledge sharing or communities of practice, this special issue intends to identify the salient criteria that management practitioners must address to assist in the implementation of Web 2.0 technologies in the work place. Findings – One of the principal findings that have emerged from this special issue is that it indicates the importance of reviewing social and cultural factors in organisations when introducing Web 2.0 technologies in the work place. In addition to assessing technical issues that might impact on the implementation of Web 2.0 technologies in organisations this special issue also explores subject matters such as the dilemma of whether a top-down or a bottom-up approach is more effective towards engaging staff in the adoption of Web 2.0 tools at work. Originality/value – The research presented in this special issue provides an important academic contribution towards an area that is, at present, under researched namely, whether there is a structured approach that can be universally applied by organisations when internally implementing Web 2.0 technologies into their work place.

Personal Knowledge Management by the Knowledge Citizen

2010 ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
América Martínez Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Individual

The discipline of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is depicted in this chapter as a dimension that has been implicitly present within the scope and evolution of the Knowledge Management (KM) movement. Moreover, it is recognized as the dimension that brought forth Knowledge-based Development (KBD) schemes at organizational and societal levels. Hence, this piece of research work aims to develop parallel paths between Knowledge Management moments and generations and the PKM movement. KM will be depicted as a reference framework for a state-of-the-art review of PKM. A number of PKM authors and models are identified and categorized within the KM key moments and generations according to their characteristics and core statements. Moreover, this chapter shows a glimpse of the knowledge citizen’s PKM as an aspect with strong impact on his/her competencies profile; which in turn drives his/her influence and value-adding capacity within knowledge-based schemes at organizational and societal levels. In this sense, the competencies profile of the knowledge citizen is of essence. Competencies are understood as the individual performance of the knowledge citizen interacting with others in a given value context. The chapter concludes with some considerations on the individual development that enables PKM to become a key element in the knowledge citizen’s profile, such as the building block or living cell that triggers Knowledge-based Development at organizational and societal levels.

The concepts of big data applied in personal knowledge management

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che-Hung Liu ◽  
Jen Sheng Wang ◽  
Ching-Wei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Behavior Management ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the applications of big data in personal knowledge management (PKM). Design/methodology/approach Five conventional knowledge management dimensions, namely, the value of data, data collection, data storage, data application and data presentation, were applied for integrating big data in the context of PKM. Findings This study concludes that time management, computer usage efficiency management, mobile device usage behavior management, health management and browser surfing management are areas where big data can be applied to PKM. Originality/value While the literature discusses PKM without considering the impact of big data, this paper aims to extend existing knowledge by demonstrating the application of big data in PKM.

scholarly journals Perceptions of knowledge management processes, strategies, implementation and impact: Biographical influences

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-502
Author(s):  
Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu ◽  
Sanjana Brijball Parumasur
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Job Level ◽  
Knowledge Stocks ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Knowledge Management Processes

The study aims to provide recommendations with strategic direction and an improvement as far as knowledge management initiatives are concerned within the Skills Development and Management Services and Organizational Development Units so that they can drive knowledge management to be effective and efficient in its implementation whilst taking cognizance of the biographical correlates. This study seeks to address the bottlenecks as far as knowledge management is concerned by using biographical profiles with the view of promoting the creation and management of knowledge in the municipality concerned. The study reflects that the biographical profiles of employees (age, education, race, job level) influences their perceptions of the current knowledge management processes and strategies and their implementation and impact on effectiveness. The influence of age emphasizes that it is imperative to avoid the decay of employees’ knowledge stocks at the individual level by striving to make knowledge, skills and capabilities more valuable, unique and available. The influence of education reinforces the needs to improve the connectivity among all employees. The impact of race adds to the urgency to promote the diversification of the workforce in order to have access to different ideas and skills and, enables the organisation to enhance its competitive edge. The influence of job level demands that knowledge management activities should be cascaded down to the operational level. The combined effect of the biographical variables dictates that organisations need to foster a culture that supports knowledge sharing and must provide salient incentives to recognise and encourage such interactions.

Personal Knowledge Management with Semantic Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 138-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Völkel ◽  
Sebastian Schaffert ◽  
Eyal Oren
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Technologies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Personal Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Repositories ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Two Sides

Managing and enabling knowledge is a key to success in our economy and society (Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder, 2002, p. 6). The problem of knowledge management can generally be tackled from two sides: top-down and bottom-up. Many approaches have been taken from the top down in which the organisation aimed to better manage their internal knowledge by installing central knowledge repositories. Many of these systems were less accepted than expected (Braganza & Mollenkramer, 2002). Along with the Web 2.0 notions of user-provided content and collective intelligence, more bottom-up approaches to knowledge management were developed. In this chapter we describe an individual-centric, bottom-up approach to personal knowledge management (PKM). PKM is the individual management of knowledge from a subjective perspective.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document