About: Personal knowledge networking

Personal knowledge networks are methods for organizations to identify, capture, evaluate, retrieve, and share information. This method has been primarily conceived by researchers to share personal, informal knowledge between organizations. Instead of looking at the organizational context, some researchers investigate the intra-firm aspects at the personal level of organizational knowledge networks, where knowledge management (KM) processes start and end. Various technologies and behaviors support personal knowledge networking, for example wikis, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and relationship networks. Researchers propose that knowledge management can occur with little explicit governance. This trend is called "grassroots KM" as opposed to traditional, top-down enterprise KM.