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“What are Your Bottom-up Powers?” Book Talk & Signing @ Doylestown Bookshop

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

Author Rob Kall asks “what are your bottom-up powers?” at this engaging book talk and signing at Doylestown Bookshop. For more information about his book, click here.

BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION News!

Tuesday, August 27th, 2019

FEATURE: MASTERING THE EMERGING WORLD OF CONNECTIVITY

Our civilization is a top-down hierarchical one, as are most large-scale ones in the past, i.e., one-to-the-many, ‘top-down’, explains Kall in an interview with Tom Hartmann. Kall’s book, The Bottom-Up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity, is the distillation of his experience founding and running the website Opednews, which started as a personal blog, i.e., one-to-the-many, ‘bottom-bottom’, and morphed into a many-to-the-many, with the potential of bottom-top, as a volunteer-based collective.

Kall calls this ‘gayan’, as contributors and management are directly interconnected in a symbiotic, transparent relationship. Writers can ‘fan’ their favorite writers at Opednews and both comment, generating discussions of controversial topics, and contact other members directly.

I have been a member since 2008 and can attest that it is a unique site, allowing would-be writers to submit, learning the ropes and getting feedback to hone their skills. It struggles with the tension between being open to new ideas, but constrained by the existing zeitgeist. Writers are warned on submitting to ‘think twice’ about using red-flag words (scatology, Hitler, Zionist), and the editors can just not publish something. Publishing progressive material which is highly critical of the powers-that-be (including PCness) is not easy.

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BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION News!

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

REVIEW: MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: MICHAEL DUNFORD’S BOOKSHELF

“The Bottom-up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity” is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and academic library Business Management & Entrepreneurial Leadership collections and supplemental studies lists.

Synopsis: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Sir Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg have all said that change or growth happen from the bottom up. But what does it mean and how do you do “bottom up” better and smarter? Essentially, bottom up is a way of life and a way of doing business. In “The Bottom-Up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity”, award-winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary Rob Kall picks up where Malcolm Gladwell’s seminal book “Tipping Point” left off. It is basically a how-to book for businesses, leaders, organizations, activists, and individuals, cracking wide-open humankind’s biggest trend in seven million years. By understanding the roots and implications of “bottom up” and “top down” corporate executives and business leaders will be better able to tap the incredible power of this trend, just as the billionaire founders of Google, Facebook, Craigslist and Twitter have done.

Critique: Drawing upon informative and illustrative interviews from more than one hundred ‘bottom up thought leaders’ ranging from jack Dorsey, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, and Riane Eisler, to Josephy Nye, George Lakoff, and Medea Benjamin, “The Bottom-up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity” is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and academic library Business Management & Entrepreneurial Leadership collections and supplemental studies lists. It should be noted for personal reading lists that “The Bottom-Up Revolution” is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.07).

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THE BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION News!

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019

REVIEW: THE BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION: ROB KALL’S NEW BOOK FOR ACTIVIST TEACHERS – AND THE REST OF US

“…Kall’s Bottom-Up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity is a perfect text for secondary and post-secondary courses in history, sociology, political science, critical thinking, writing, and even economics.”

“For Rob Kall, benefitting from the perspective of the world’s conscientized majority, and reading their philosophers, theologians, activists, and social analysts can turn perspectives upside-down. It can change understandings of history, economics, politics – and even of theology and God-talk.”

“Such upside-down vision forms the heart of The Bottom-Up Revolution. Its down-to-earth explanations and practical, encyclopedic guidelines make it an indispensable source for teachers of critical thinking and their students as well as for activists and community organizers.”

“… it’s a source I wish I had at my disposal when I was teaching peace and social justice studies. Secondary and post-secondary teachers should adopt it for the fall semester, 2019.”

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THE BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION News!

Monday, June 17th, 2019

Review: Rob Kall, The Bottom-Up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

“The long dormant seeds of ‘bottom-up’ culture, evolutionally baked deeply into our DNA and our neurophysiological systems, are vibrantly reawakening.

“When I asked Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, ‘What’s the next big thing on the web?’ He replied that it was trust.

“This tsunami of bottom-up thinking and behavior is causing a bigger paradigm shift than the inventions of writing or Gutenberg’s printing press because we’re already genetically primed for this by our millions of years of human evolution.

“So many trends today look toward the end of life as we know it—climate change, the huge gluttony of the super-rich who work together to transcend national boundaries in their pursuit of more money, more power, ultimately a global feudal system.

“I go to places like farmers’ markets and shopping malls to find solace in the persistence of the middle class against all odds—creeping fascism, the extreme right-wing governments that are spreading throughout the world, led, for the time being by our very own donald trump, who recently gave permission to Juan Guaidó to seize the Venezuelan government away from Nicolás Maduro. Socialism is no good, say the super-rich, focusing on Venezuela, whose assets in the United States have been seized and whose chief export, oil, has dropped in monetary value through the floor.

“Against these trends and their obvious manifestations, a quiet revolution is in progress, writes author and OpEdNews owner as well as entrepreneur and original thinker Rob Kall in his just-released book The Bottom-Up Revolution: Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity. He offers us an optimistic vision of the future. We are transitioning from a top-down to a bottom-up worldwide society. “Top down” describes the current structure of our society, a worldwide plutocracy, but “people can be victors without the need for victims.” “Bottom-up” is its now-competing inverse: it is “small, local, interdependent, respectful, egalitarian and decentralized,” according to author Gregg Levoy. “Humans have spent 99 percent of our developmental time in the wild kingdom,” he writes. –“-99 percent of the five to seven million years hominids existed,” adds Kall. “What I call a ‘bottom-up connection consciousness’ is a revolutionary way of seeing, being, and relating to others, and . . . it affects how we behave in our community and all our other activities, including our “activism,” child rearing, religious practice, and, of course, doing business. It enhances our ability to be cooperative, interdependent, sharing, caring, empathic, egalitarian, and transparent, and although often small, it can be incredibly powerful.”

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Monday, June 3rd, 2019

Rob Kall: Straight Talk with Nick Lawrence @ WEEU

Author Rob Kall will sit down for an interview with Nick Lawrence from WEEU Radio and discuss his recently published book, The Bottom-Up Revolution. Tune in on Straight Talk on August 5th to hear all about it!

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Rob Kall: Interview with Frankie Boyer @ BizTalk Radio

Author Rob Kall will discuss his recently published book, The Bottom-Up Revolution on an interview with Frankie Boyer from BizTalk Radio. Tune in on June 11th. You won’t want to miss it.

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Rob Kall: Author Talk & Book Signing at Willow Grove

Sunday, May 26th, 2019

Following the monthly Writers Coffeehouse meeting at Barnes & Noble in Willow Grove, author Rob Kall will talk about his book, The Bottom-Up RevolutionA book signing will follow.

Rob Kall: Author Talk at Pebble Hill Church

Sunday, May 5th, 2019

Author Rob Kall will be talking about his soon-to-be-published book, The Bottom-Up Revolution.