EverFile

Your Personal Information Management Strategy

How often do you review your personal information management strategy? Do you have such a strategy? What information do you have available about your education, training, skills, knowledge, work experience, and interests? Do you have it readily at hand? How do you organize it? How secure is it?

In today's environment, where social networking trends are evolving quickly and the flow of information continues to increase, how does your information compare with that of others? Can you differentiate and distinguish yourself?

Some interesting things to think about.

Tools for Knowledge Nomads

EverFile solves a problem for knowledge nomads: fragmentation of career, school, and personal records across separate, non-compatible information management tools.

With EverFile everything is in one place, in one comprehensive, easy-to-use system, available by subscription. No more searching for papers or trying to remember names or dates. Information is easily entered or uploaded into structured file areas.

• Work and career history and performance, plus career planning
• Education and training Military service
• Community and volunteer work
• Personal information

The heart of EverFile is its docking utility. A subscriber docks her/his system to exchange information and build a joint record with organizations such as employers, clients, partners, schools, or associations. When it is time to move on the subscriber undocks and takes a copy of the joint record within her/his portable, personal EverFile record. At the next port of call the EverFile System is docked again. Over time a cumulative record is built.

The EverFile portable, personal record enables the subscriber to manage information over her/his lifetime in order to present skills, experience, achievements, and contribution value.

Visualizing Your Career Development

In the DVD "The Secret" the authors, physicists, metaphysicians, visionaries, and psychologists who are interviewed talk about positive intention and visualizing things in order to materialize them, to attract them into one's life.

EverFile is a tool designed to help knowledge workers visualize their career development and materialize opportunities. How does EverFile help? A subscriber can develop a detailed and cumulative personal record over time, making it far easier to see her or his overall experience level, skill set, and domains of interest and competence. When it is possible to see a greater view of the landscape, it is possible to be clearer about the goal and the course to follow. This is useful for visualizing and attracting positive, life enhancing events and situations.

Information Handling Strategy

EverFile challenges traditional assumptions about who needs to be responsible for holding information. Our goal is to:

1. Move information management responsibility to individuals -- the independent knowledge workers who need the information to build and share their comprehensive records;

2. relieve organizations of the burden of maintaining information they actually need only for the time they are engaged with individuals; and

3. help individuals best showcase or demonstrate contribution value to organizations with which they interact.

EverFile looks at the total relationship cycle between individuals and organizations and addresses how to better support information management and exchange in all phases: approach, engagement, and separation.