February 22, 2010

Confirmation by Complement

A nice message in my inbox today both complimented the time I've spent (often lonely) focusing on personal knowledge management, but also confirmed my conviction that individual, independent efforts are critical if any of us hopes to make a contribution to the collective.

Dear M. Barth,

I've read your work for 10 years now and I want to thank you for this. I recently published a book (in French) about information management in organizations and the last chapter is completely focused on PKM.

In addition I published an ebook of 60 pages with 28 structured practice sheets. The global model that I proposed is simple. I wanted to let you know about this and thank you again for the inspiration you gave me.

Sincerely, Christophe Deschamps

Deschamps, Christophe: "Le personal knowledge management au service de l'efficacité personnelle." In Le nouveau management de l'information: La gestion des connaissances au cœur de l'entreprise 2.0. Éditions FYP, 2009.

Feb 22, 2010 11:39:41 AM | Self-Organization (personal knowledge management)

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