Week 2 Discussion Prompts

How might the concept of produsage be applied in your life (personal and/or professional) as it stands today? Are you already a produser? If yes, what do you do? If no, why not?

According to Bruns (2007), produsage "breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge..."  So am I a produser?  Well, I definitely am a consumer of content, that is for sure.  Do I produce knowledge and information?  I'm not so sure.  I definitely share knowledge and information, but I don't know if I have produced anything new.  Outside of work, I am active in several groups on LinkedIn and I am part of a Twitter group called #lrnchat that meets every Thursday night from 8:30 - 10:00 PM eastern time.  We discuss a variety of learning related topics. In work, I am part of several Yammer (an enterprise microblogging tool) groups.  I also encourage my team to be active in the information exchange on Yammer.  I've written about my attempts to use Yammer as a learning tool several times on my personal blog (Many Ways to Learn).  These posting did get the attention of the folks who work at Yammer.  They invited me to be part of their Best Practices Network.  I've tried to be a good citizen in this community, but most of the focus seems to be on Marketing and IT.   I haven't found others who really look at Yammer from the learning angle.  Nevertheless, the Yammer folks liked the fact that I approach Yammer as a tool for learning.  They invited me to take a turn as a guest blogger on their site.   Check it out.  It describes how my team tries to use Yammer to foster informal learning.  But does this any of this make me a produser?  Have I produced anything of value? I don't really know.