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Much of knowledge management research and practice is focused on an organisational level; interventions and systems are designed and implemented without much thinking of how they would match the practices and daily routines of individual knowledge workers. Personal knowledge management is an approach that complements organisational KM by focusing on ways to support productivity of an individual knowledge worker. The aim of this paper is to propose a personal knowledge management framework by integrating insights from literature on knowledge work and knowledge worker activities with real-life examples of the use of weblogs for professional purposes: as personal knowledge repositories, learning journals or networking instruments. We draw upon the results of a weblog adoption study to propose a personal knowledge management framework that maps a knowledge worker's activities across three dimensions: individual, communities & networks, and ideas. We then discuss its implications for research and practice.