Why keeping entering People in a PKM base ?

Why keeping entering People in a PKM base ?


Why should you keep track of who wrote this book or this blog, who came out with this brilliant idea ? That more to remember, memory space waste isn’t it ?

Well our brain is made in such a way that remembering people’s names is a special feature, specially if you have a photographs. So the effort is not huge and you don’t have to force yourself, just keep it and be exposed to this name regularly.

Now people and their work have a place in the big history. Knowing when and where people lived help us to make sense and put in perspective their work. Some places, universities, countries are well known for their experience and know-how in certain fields. The fact that some people worked with others assures that some of the connections between their works will be done by Kneaver aggregator. It assures also that they had the same commentators and detractors. They possibly share the same culture, have been through the same events , the same background, education or not in which case it could be a hint of why they had a different view.

Nonaka author of “The Knowledge creating company” was living in Japan, post war generation and studied large automotive companies. You could infere : Eastern culture, large and very organized companies, manufacturing, technical oriented Knowledge.

Laurence Prusak who wrote “Working Knowledge” is american, worked with IBM, Consulting firms, will bring another perspective, still they share this concern of dealing with large companies.

We live in a global world so even in a US company, staying in US ignoring Far East perceptions is no more an option. For Kneaver the target is more indivual, experts or SME so some filters apply. Where they agree, what they don’t cover, while keeping in mind they didn’t wrote about exactly the same same things, helps to valuate their books as Knowledge source. It is up to us, readers to actualize, fill the gaps.

It seems confortable to place recognized authors on a piedestal. They are the founders, they wrote books, some of them may not be writing anymore. On the other side we have today influencers: They have blogs, twitter accounts but may be not books, not yet success stories. It is the philosophy of Kneaver to have them both in the system. Today influencers will have their mean of expression documented and Kneaver Communication will automatically follow them bringing to you fresh, auto curated news.