new book: ‘Keeping Found Things Found’
Written on November 16, 2007
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management is a new book by William Jones, who has also recently released Personal Information Management
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[…] in Books, Software, Technology at 10:13 am by LeisureGuy Via My Mind on Books, the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management. […]
Of interest may be the TOC for the book:
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
Table of Contents
I. Foundations
1. A study and a practice
2. A personal space of information
3. A framework for personal information management
II: Activities
4. Finding and re-finding: From need to information
5. Keeping and organizing: From information to need
6. Maintaining information for now and for later
7. Managing privacy and the flow of information
8. Measuring and evaluating
9. Making sense of things
III: Solutions
10. Email disappears?
11. Search gets personal
12. PIM on the go
13. PIM on the Web
V: Conclusions
14. Bringing the pieces together
15. Finding our way in(to) the future
WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information—not even in the “home waters” of an office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us—keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewildering. Can there be a similar growth in our understanding for how best to manage information and informational tools?
This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal information management (PIM) as both a study and a practice of the activities people do and need to be doing so that information can work for them in their daily lives.
William, Thanks for visiting and posting the book info. I hope to check the book out soon. (PS – I’ve fixed the problem with the misdirected link from the PIM book cover.)