Managing information in my personal learning environment

In this video I show my process for managing information in my personal learning environment. I talk about the flow of information as it moves through the system, from deciding what information to pay attention to, then how to filter, capture, and process it, and finally how I share it.

One of the fundamental problems for knowledge workers in an information-rich environment is deciding what information to pay attention to, and how to create something valuable from it. There’s a lot of interest right now in “personal knowledge management”, which I think is a misnomer because knowledge can’t really be managed (knowledge is constructed personally and exists in your head, not on a page).

So I talk about “personal information management” instead.

I talk about each of these pieces of my personal learning environment through examples from my own practice to discuss how I think about knowledge work.

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