At the European PKM Summit the past two days, Frank Meeuwsen ran a continuous atelier where people could make their own ‘zines and lino cuts. A welcoming space to make something by hand at an event full of inspiring but abstract conversations and talks.

A simple ‘zine folded from an A4 paper provides six small pages, including the front and back. That forces you to be to the point.

I thought of a posting I wrote a little over a year ago, about how personal knowledge management is personal in three ways, and that generally you should always take the P in PKM even more personal than you’re already doing.
Three points to bring across sounded short enough to lend itself for a message in a zine.

The P in PKM is 3 fold personal. (jouw = yours in Dutch)

First, it’s your personal system. You take it with you. It enables and anchors your personal autonomy, and allows you to own your own learning path

Second, it’s your personal knowledge, building on your own curiosity and interests, with your associations, in your language. Your personal network of meaning.

Third, it’s your personal system. Your emergent structures, following your logic, stemming from your personal methods and workflows.

Personal KM is way more personal than you think. And still more.