This is a dryasdust quasiacademic look at personal information management, outlining the problems to be addressed and the possible approaches. In an ideal world, everyone would always have the right information, in the right form, with the right context, right when they needed it. Personal information management or pim is both the practice and the study of the activities people. Abstract personal information management pim is the management of information e. Below is the table of contents, to help you make a more informed purchasing decision. Jaime teevan as editors, to appear in the spring of 2007. Personal information management systems or pims are systems that help give individuals more control over their personal data.
An edited book on pim, published by the university of washington press, with william jones and. Essentialpim is a free personal information manager that keeps up with the times and lets you manage appointments, tasks, notes, contacts, password entries and email messages across multiple devices and cloud applications. Personal information management pim is the study and practice of the activities people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and retrieve information for. Barbara etzel is proprietor of a management consulting business in chicago that helps professionals manage their personal information and work more efficiently. Personal information management system european data. Personal information management pim is the storage. Pim is a growing area of interest as we all strive for better use of our limited personal resources of time, money, and energy, as well as greater workplace efficiency and productivity. There is a whole host of information in our lives that is importantbank accounts, tax records, credit card information but not usually easily organized together. Personal information management pim is the study and practice of the activities people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and retrieve information for everyday use. Personal information management pim is the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use personal information items such as documents paperbased and digital, web pages, and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks workrelated or not and fulfill a persons various roles as parent, employee, friend, member of community, etc. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book.
This book looks at how people in the real world currently manage to store and process the massive amounts of information that overload their senses and their. A blueprint and action plan for a corporate information management strategy, this book is a useful guide for anyone who wishes to improve business success with technology. Home personal information management library guides at. A brief history of personal information management. Author william mcknight provides the foundation and tools for information managers to set policies and programs for the improved management of information, while addressing.
By way of introducing personal information management and the remainder of this book, discussion in this introductory chapter moves through the following sections. Personal information management by william jones goodreads. Thomas is professor of information management and has written a number of books on information technology, including the social dimensions of humancomputer interfaces. The study and practice of personal information management 1st edition. The concept of personal information management pim encompasses numerous aspects of different methods used to organize information. Personal information management university of washington press. Each chapter is written by one or more leading researchers in the chapters subject area, and is worth reading independent of the book. However, the book also holds together well as a whole. I edited the book personal information management with william jones, so my opinion of it is, not surprisingly, glowing. Personal information management pim is the management of information e. The big book of everything organizes important personal. Providers of online services and advertisers will need to interact with the pims if they plan to process individuals data.