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Srinivasan Tatachari
Srinivasan Tatachari

The document discusses different aspects of personal knowledge management including ideation, searching, storage, retrieval and application. It provides examples of tools that can be used for each stage like mind mapping tools for ideation, Google Scholar for searching, Evernote for storage, and Zotero and RSS feeds for retrieval and organization. It emphasizes the importance of classifying and tagging information during storage and highlights challenges of adopting new tools.

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Ideation aspects Closing notes Retrieval & Application aspects Storage aspects Searching aspects Personal Knowledge Management Srinivasan Tatachari Using IT for Research Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
pptPlex Section Divider Personal Knowledge Management The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
Is there a choice? Information is moving to electronic versions Is there a choice? Intimidating? Faint-hearted?? Learn new tools?
Personal Knowledge Management Stages Ideation Search Storage Retrieval Application Artifacts Research papers, Ideas, electronic versions of books, handbooks, snippets from websites .
pptPlex Section Divider Ideation aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
Ideation Scribbles, notes Mind-mapping tools Helps in abstraction, conceptualization and collation of ideas Brainstorming & collaborating ConceptDraw Mindmap tool Blogging ?
Mind Map
pptPlex Section Divider Searching aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
Seek & Receive You search on-need or receive when ready Library visits, journals by mail Google the God of search? Scholar Sometimes just old Google.co.in Other databases: JSTOR , EBSCO Usage of search keywords is key to the search!
References -> A to Z of EBSCO Respective journals website
Seek & Receive Email subscriptions for notifications New articles, journals E-Mailing lists like those of AOM Discussions, information sharing
RSS feeds directly from journal sites Subscribing to RSS
Bloglines.com
MS Outlook 2007
Email/RSS feed from Google Alerts OR Google Scholar Alerts using yahoo pipes Pipes: Google Scholar RSS/email
pptPlex Section Divider Storage aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
Storing Print documents physical archive , highlight Highlight in PDF (License?) Manual classification: Folder structure, Filenames Personal Knowledge Management: e.g. KnowledgeTree software Tag, classify, keywords, type of documents
Store snippets, urls, images in Evernote
Zotero for Firefox stores citations and others Endnote no site wide license!
pptPlex Section Divider Retrieval & Application aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
Retrieval & Application B(u)y memory ! Go by manual classification and open each file to search OR.
Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop
Retrieve snippets from Evernote
Use references from Zotero for citation in Word
RSS feed readers Bloglines, MS outlook, snackr !
Textflow collaboration over Word
pptPlex Section Divider Closing notes The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
Closure You may need administrative privileges May not be the best tools/methods available Free! Some are experimental beware of crashes!! We could obtain commercial versions pptPlex from Microsoft Labs!
Thanks Now it would be great if you could share your ideas from your experience/ experiments!!

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Using Freeware for research work

  • 1. Ideation aspects Closing notes Retrieval & Application aspects Storage aspects Searching aspects Personal Knowledge Management Srinivasan Tatachari Using IT for Research Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
  • 2. pptPlex Section Divider Personal Knowledge Management The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
  • 3. Is there a choice? Information is moving to electronic versions Is there a choice? Intimidating? Faint-hearted?? Learn new tools?
  • 4. Personal Knowledge Management Stages Ideation Search Storage Retrieval Application Artifacts Research papers, Ideas, electronic versions of books, handbooks, snippets from websites .
  • 5. pptPlex Section Divider Ideation aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
  • 6. Ideation Scribbles, notes Mind-mapping tools Helps in abstraction, conceptualization and collation of ideas Brainstorming & collaborating ConceptDraw Mindmap tool Blogging ?
  • 8. pptPlex Section Divider Searching aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
  • 9. Seek & Receive You search on-need or receive when ready Library visits, journals by mail Google the God of search? Scholar Sometimes just old Google.co.in Other databases: JSTOR , EBSCO Usage of search keywords is key to the search!
  • 10. References -> A to Z of EBSCO Respective journals website
  • 11. Seek & Receive Email subscriptions for notifications New articles, journals E-Mailing lists like those of AOM Discussions, information sharing
  • 12. RSS feeds directly from journal sites Subscribing to RSS
  • 14. MS Outlook 2007
  • 15. Email/RSS feed from Google Alerts OR Google Scholar Alerts using yahoo pipes Pipes: Google Scholar RSS/email
  • 16. pptPlex Section Divider Storage aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
  • 17. Storing Print documents physical archive , highlight Highlight in PDF (License?) Manual classification: Folder structure, Filenames Personal Knowledge Management: e.g. KnowledgeTree software Tag, classify, keywords, type of documents
  • 18. Store snippets, urls, images in Evernote
  • 19. Zotero for Firefox stores citations and others Endnote no site wide license!
  • 20. pptPlex Section Divider Retrieval & Application aspects The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
  • 21. Retrieval & Application B(u)y memory ! Go by manual classification and open each file to search OR.
  • 22. Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop
  • 24. Use references from Zotero for citation in Word
  • 25. RSS feed readers Bloglines, MS outlook, snackr !
  • 26. Textflow collaboration over Word
  • 27. pptPlex Section Divider Closing notes The slides after this divider will be grouped into a section and given the label you type above. Feel free to move this slide to any position in the deck.
  • 28. Closure You may need administrative privileges May not be the best tools/methods available Free! Some are experimental beware of crashes!! We could obtain commercial versions pptPlex from Microsoft Labs!
  • 29. Thanks Now it would be great if you could share your ideas from your experience/ experiments!!