Rob Paterson
I think that we are in a race against time. Can we open up the closed and self-serving institutions that rule our world before they destroy it?
My hope is that Social Software will act as the printing press did for Luther and enable an entirely new world view to break into the light of day. A world where we largely get what we need from each other rather than from institutions.
And yes who is Rob – my blog has more about who I am and what I do.
Recent Posts
- - Posterous – the power of simplicity
- - Twitter Lists – 1st Insight?
- - The meaning of Twitter
- - A Children’s Party Plan – What do you do? Emergence
- - Emergence 3 – The Rules – A Science – Our Only Chance?
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All Posts
- - Posterous – the power of simplicity
- - Twitter Lists – 1st Insight?
- - The meaning of Twitter
- - A Children’s Party Plan – What do you do? Emergence
- - Emergence 3 – The Rules – A Science – Our Only Chance?
- - Emergence Part 1 – So what is really going on?
- - Emergence Part 2 – What might be the container & rules for humans?
- - The lesson of the Netflix Prize
- - Adoption – 5 Stages of Media Grief
- - It’s the new business model not the web alone that will be the Holy Grail
- - 2.0 Another View – A way to deal with the biggest threats to your enterprise
- - Time for Public Media to think about building a web distribution alternative
- - Forrester – The Social Media System has Tipped
- - Twitter and Politics – Essential Today
- - NPR – At a Tipping Point?
- - Do you think social media is a fad still?
- - NPR – Going for Mobile
- - Netflix – The workings of their culture
- - Mining Twitter – Citizen Journalism in a New Form
- - The Netflix Case – Aggregated Wisdom is the Winner
- - Twitter 101
- - NPR’s New Web Site will arrive July 28th – Preview
- - Kevin Spacey Teaches Twitter to David Letterman
- - Virgin Shows the Way – United could learn from
- - Taylor Guitars – Response to Dave – 0 Cost brilliant Ad
- - The New GM and Social Media
- - United Breaks Guitars now on CNN & ABC
- - How will you respond to a customer complaint in the age of Social Media?
- - Twitter – If going 2.0 is hard for you – This works
- - The New is not “Self Evident” Nor is it found at the Centre – The Disruptive Media lives in Philadelphia
- - Adoption – Tell a good story to help people change
- - Adoption – Follow the Leader – Westjet
- - So you think you can avoid becoming adept at using Social Media?
- - Adoption – Only a respected Peer can move the reluctant – Dan Schorr NPR a Twitter Coach
- - Adoption of Social Media – It’s the Connections!
- - Social Media – The Challenge of Adoption – Rob’s Dummies Guide
- - Social Media and Politics – From Obama to Iran and Onward…
- - Living the Freelance Life – Being Free and Secure
- - Swine Flu – Want to be informed?
- - Dominos – Crosssing the Rubicon for Corporates in Social Media
- - Future of News – Why it has to be web based
- - News – Context or Commodity?
- - What will happen when your local TV Station & Newspaper are Gone?
- - How do you bring the citizen voice into conventional media? Giving Social Media Meaning
- - The Vivian Schiller Vision for Public Media – Plus Flesh on the Bones
- - The New Value in the Web – the Archive – A New Approach to Search is Needed
- - Twitter and Journalism – A New Perspective – Being There
- - Post-inauguration thoughts about social media
- - Twitter goes mainstream – Fast Forward Blog you the Ist Twitter Guide to the Social Revolution
- - War 2.0 – The IDF are using YouTube and Twitter
- - Twitter – Grooming – The Recession – Stress – and YOU
- - The Emerging Math/Rules of Social Networks – Magic Numbers
- - Twitter – the Leverage – where the ROI is found
- - Twitter and Newspapers – How we at Fast Forward Blog can help you use Twitter better
- - Grooming and Social Software
- - Zappos – How Twitter can work in a corporate environment
- - State of the Twittersphere – Hubspot Reports – Stowe Boyd Retorts
- - Live Blogging hits the big time with CoveritLive on the National Post covering #snowmageddon
- - In 2010 what will replace Newspapers and Network TV?
- - Mumbai Terrorists use Blackberry to stay in touch
- - Mumbai – Twitter and Citizen Journalism Advance
- - Politics 2.0 – Real Democracy is close
- - The Real Enterprise 2.0 – The Chaord
- - Getting More for Less – The PEI Bio Alliance – A Chaord in Action
- - Organizing for Tough Times – Getting More for Less
- - Social Media must be able to do things and get measured – KETC and the Mortgage Crisis
- - The shift to the web is becoming decisive for news
- - The Family our most reliable employment agency, banker, insurance company and pension fund
- - Mapping out your access to the real credit system
- - The Credit Crisis and Social Software – Part 1 – Why we need a return to credit based on social relationships
- - Enterprise 2.0 – Now a necessity in a low/no capital world – The Death of the Dinos
- - World events – Hurricanes – Financial Crises and Politics – Twitter!
- - Social Media – Gustav – Emergencies
- - Denver – Twitter as a News Service – TweetDeck a major help?
- - The Human Voice – Leroy Sievers
- - Dick Fosbury – Why the 2.0 Organization will have to wait for the Kids
- - Culture – The Secret to a 2.0 Organization
- - Wired’s Wiki Guide to watching the Olympics on the Web
- - How do you get more for less? – The Network effect!
- - Life after Death – BPP Diner?
- - Content in a world where it is infinite – Dr Horrible
- - KETC – The emerging role for Pub Media – The Social Convener
- - NPR cancel Bryant Park Project – Can a hybrid work?
- - Social Media – A New POV for Story Telling
- - NPR opens the Kimono – Inside NPR
- - Using Social Media to help in the Mortgage Crisis – KETC and CPB run an experiment – Part 1 – Context for action
- - Using Social Media (Ning) to Manage a Social Project – KETC and the Mortgage Crisis
- - Old Media meets Social Media – KETC and the Mortgage Crisis – On the edge of launch
- - Mortgage Crisis – all about “them” or all about “us” – Can Social Media Help?
- - Disasters – Public TV and Social Media – Iowa and St Louis
- - Connectivity and Politics and Diplomacy
- - H & R Block uses Twitter to Listen to its Brand
- - The Science of Love and how this works in the 2.0 World
- - China Quake – Twitter Comes of Age as THE Breaking News Tool
- - Twitter – Breaking News – Chinese/Language No Barrier
- - Social Media – Restoring the American Dream?
- - Friends – Power – Social Software – Everything?
- - Making the new more relevant
- - Why do people like Twitter – Using Twitter to find out – Instant Research too
- - Enterprise 2.0 Surely working with nature vs against?
- - Blogging and how precious life is – Thank you dear readers
- - PBS and iTunes – It’s Happening!!!!!
- - Blogs and Jobs
- - Finally – The answer to adoption of Enterprise 2.0 in the traditional Corporation
- - CBS Leaves News – Newspapers now Network News Dying
- - Corporate Blogging – The Views of a Master
- - Number 10 Downing Street is Now Twittering
- - Size Matters – When Small is Big
- - The Social web is more interesting and broader in context than you might think!
- - What will drive the change in media? Measurement and Money
- - Why TV is dead – Finite dollars chasing infinite content
- - Future of TV – YouTube open their API – Tivo YouTube New Offer – Response of Disney – Go to where the customers are – Go where the staff are
- - Bottom Up at NPR – Get My Vote – Platforms vs Programs
- - The Power of the Personal – Voice?
- - Getting from Here to There – How Torey Malatia is solving the Innovator’s Dilemma
- - Wal*Mart Speak Truth to Power
- - The 6 Minute Epic
- - Why is search so important and so valuable
- - Twitter & Immediacy – Getting Fired from Yahoo
- - The Web & The Election – Intitial Conditions and the Web
- - Radio as TV? – The Bryant Park team show the way
- - Twitter Bowl – A Landmark Media Experiment
- - A Meaning for the Yahoo bid by MSFT
- - Twitter & Public Radio and Public Life
- - Seeing the 2.0 World – Michael Wesch
- - Twitter and a New Kind of News
- - HBO starts online delivery – Now what for Public TV?
- - Happy Birthday – Wikipedia – 7 years old!
- - Public Radio and TV – More than a Mashup
- - The Last Web Frontier – The Car
- - Razors and Plasma Screens? A New Business Model For TV Screens?
- - Microsoft bidding to buy Fast – What this may mean for all of us
- - The world of Video on demand get closer – Comcast Project Infinity
- - The First Long Tail Olympics – Have it your way!
- - The First Fatal Car Accident – History and Social Media
- - Netflix and LG to offer Direct Access
- - The Social Web – A “New World”
- - The Royal Channel on YouTube
- - OPB – Public Insight Network
- - Andy Carvin advises an unusual Client – Has Good Advice for us all
- - The History of Social Media
- - iTunes TV – Now Available in Canada
- - Bloggers and the Mainstream Media
- - The Complete Guide to Blogs in 3 minutes – Lee Lefever
- - Blogging and paid work – The Value of a Micro Brand
- - The Future of TV – iTouch
- - More on War as the accelerant for Social Software
- - Nato says we are losing the Social Media Wars
- - The walls are coming down – ABC has a Facebook Page
- - The Walls are Coming Down – NBC No Longer in TV
- - Old Media meets New @WOSU and COSI in Columbus
- - Conferences and Blogging – Stuart Henshall offers the opportunity
- - Getting to Maybe – A backstory of the effort required to cooperate
- - The New NPR Music Site – A Model for Social Media
- - Energency and Twitter – Now the Quake
- - TV – Moving to online – Hulu.com?
- - Social Media – News – The Fire – KPBS
- - Social Media & Emergency – Update on KPBS – Lessons for Public Broadcasters
- - Fires in California – How Social Media is helping + Moblie Phones
- - The New “News” paper – Michael Yon – War Correspondent
- - Common Craft Nails Zombies – Everything you need to know to survive an attack
- - Working around the IT Guys
- - So Blind I could not see – A Possible “New Newspaper Model”
- - Social Software – Unintended Consequences at University
- - The Donut and Terror
- - The Power of Story in a Messy World
- - Organization – Choreography or Energy? Machine or Natural?
- - More on the reality of the “Donut”
- - John Robb on the effects of the “Donut”
- - The New Business Model – The day of reckoning is here
- - Getting Paid for Content is Over – Times Select is Gone
- - What is quality in Social Media?
- - The Artisanal Economy – Food
- - The Rebirth of the Artisanal Economy – Where Work and Life come home
- - Social Media and the Organization – Part 1
- - Your Own TV Channel?
- - What Business? Another Look at ROI
- - Guess who uses Social Media well – and who doesn’t?
- - Social Media – The Next Revolution in Human Health
- - Going Home – How Social Software can take us “Home”
- - Social Media Adoption – Maybe a Crisis will Help?
- - “”By their works shall ye know them – Social Software outs the Bureaucrat
- - Adoption of Social Media is tough in Public Radio – what about a virus?
- - If markets are conversations – if media will be conversations – then what do we do?
- - Our Institutions Today – Zombies!
- - What’s it all about Alfie?





