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Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a collection of processes that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve, and share knowledge in his or her daily activities ( Grundspenkis 2007 ) and the way in which these processes support work activities ( Wright 2005 ). It is a response to the idea that knowledge workers increasingly need to be responsible for their own growth and learning. ( Smedley 2009 ) It is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management (KM), as opposed to more traditional, top-down KM. ( Pollard 2008 ) [ edit ] History and Background Although as early as 1998 Davenport wrote on the importance to worker productivity of understanding individual knowledge processes (cited in ( Zhang 2009 )), the term personal knowledge management appears to be relatively new. Its origin can be traced in a working paper by Frand and Hixon ( Frand & Hixon 1999 ).

