PKM - or how do I get all this stuff organised

For those who want to move beyond filing emails more effectively there's a heavy-duty article on Knowledgeboard about Personal Knowledge Management by Silverio Petruzzellis and Fulvio Iavenaro.
They argue PKM goes well beyond management of information, and say "it is a framework designed by individuals for their own personal use. It involves skills that go beyond each individual’s technological competencies; it embraces personal habits and preferences more than any predefined and standardized activity aimed at organizing information; it goes towards social networking when thinking of the power of interactions as the main source to enrich our expertise and personal knowledge."
The authors offer a list of PKM tools ranging from search through email management, mind mapping and voice recognition to people and expert finding in social networks, and finish up with a list of other articles and sites.
Maybe it's just me, but I sense that "personal" is the new (or not so new) buzz... personal networks, personal media, and also personalisation of public services, where, as Charles Leadbeater advocates, users may be involved in the design and delivery of services. Using their personal media, perhaps.
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