Octavian Mihai

Now that the frenzy has passed. I feel comfortable to publish these thoughts. This is my story and it can as well be yours. It’s been ten years since I am glued to the news. Ten years since I check with religious regularity news websites, aggregators, feeds, alerts. I feel as I am one of [...]

This is a small series I prepared for our clients at Rock&Social. It is not necessarily news but it might help you get some insights. WE WANT LOCAL Everybody and their brother wants to go local. Small local businesses are under extreme pressures from various marketing and software companies. WHO IS CALLING YOU? So, you have [...]

Seven years ago, I was managing the interactive communication of Leonard Doroftei who was fighting for the Montrealer club Interbox. In may 2003 I was in Pittsburgh for the WBA/IBF lightweight title unification bout, a match transmitted live on HBO. As usual, I was sitting next to the ring taking random photos for the website. [...]

YOUR CHOICE You shouldn’t allow anyone to choose in your place. Ever. Everything you ever did can be traced back to some decision. Got late for a meeting, you decided to sleep longer. Failed an exam, you decided to enter a too difficult program or not to study enough. Got stuck in a boring and [...]

Here is another secret. Adults are a bunch of scared puppies. They might talk louder, but their back hurts. They have trouble sleeping. Stomach pain. Their neck is always tensed. They are always stressing out about stuff. They find in money the only way out. Every adult has a boss. Especially those who say they [...]

Here is a secret. There is no way out.  And that is so relieving. Your options are limited. Your mission is simple. Keep on living. Don’t be boring. Walk tall. Don’t live in fear. Get real. Choose. Cattle or cowboy. Smile. Stay a kid. Adults are boring imbeciles. Protect the weak. Support the good. Call bullshit. Don’t [...]

    Your Twitter photo screams that you are the most important person in your life and you want everybody to acknowledge your emotionally stable, yet creative, exciting and important existence while life is passing by and you are still smiling for others, a smile that you hope will cover your backache when everybody you know pulls [...]

STARTER Last Wednesday, October 6 2010, I gave a conference about Facebook at INIS. A recurrent question was trying to find how Facebook compares with Google. This was driven by some news that Facebook traffic overtakes Google and that Facebook might be worth $33B. Many compare Facebook to Google’s growth. FACEBOOK VS GOOGLE Will Facebook [...]

So, you hire a social media expert who recommends an Enterprise 2.0 software solution and gives a couple of trainings about how important Twitter is, how Facebook will become the biggest country on Earth, why Obama won, and how you have to wake up and understand the fundamental shift civilization is going through: social media is the [...]