PKM is a strategy for managing your information in our thethis information intense environment of todayís society where information overload is an intrinsic problem. Implementing this strategy will reduces the negative effects of information overload, while facilitating decision-making, problem solving and knowledge acquisition.

(endnote: For the purposes of this paper, we will consider data, information, knowledge and wisdom as different. Let's assume we begin with data, add context to get information, add understanding to get knowledge, and add judgement (values) to get wisdom.)