The new me: Living in the bubble isn’t so bad.

From Mark Smiciklas and Intersection Consulting, here is my new house. Well… It is more of a bubble, really. But a bubble can be a house, right? Yes it can. Especially when you own some unicorns and pixie dust, as I do. Those shadow people with black clouds over their heads and dark thoughts about getting [...]

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The 5 new rules of crisis management in Social Media

Continuing in the footsteps of the “new me,” as suggested by my Social Media guru betters: Shorter posts and no more criticism of anything. A new paradigm of simplicity: How smart turned out to be the wrong approach. All these months, I have been leading you astray with crazy notions of digital crisis management that [...]

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My first full day as “good” Olivier.

Day One: Positivity has its rewards. My inventory of awesome in the last hour or so saw the following entries: 1. I have not written anything snarky about anything in at least 24 hours. 2. I did not mention the words “snake oil” or “charlatan” once today except just now, to say I didn’t. 3. [...]

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Turning a new leaf. A happy leaf.

I was originally going to write a post outlining the difference between strategy and tactics, but it came to my attention that not everyone likes the fact that I a) call out bullpoopy, b) argue about semantics and c) tweet around acting like I am smarter than everyone else. Evidently, trying to “correct” people in [...]

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