A Study on Blog Based Personal Knowledge Management

Personal knowledge management is an increasingly important subject in the field of knowledge management, and it has its own characteristics distinguished from organizational knowledge management. The PKM systems are required to manage personal tacit knowledge efficiently and to low down its threshold for the use for the mass people, which recent knowledge management systems cannot make. Blog, the typical Web 2.0 application, gives an effective approach for this problem to support PKM. A blog based PKM system is deemed to be possible and to meet the urgent needs for PKM of individuals.