Author: Daniel X. O’Neil

  • Civic Elevator All Hands #2, Long Island City

    Civic Elevator All Hands #2, Long Island City

    Today I led our second annual All Hands meeting here at Civic Elevator. I presented our plans for the integration of products from UpVate, Civic Site Service, and the home-grown tools we’ve developed at Civic from Day One. The one-day meeting was bracketed by onsite client meetings.

  • Campaign for “Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist”

    I created the strategy, website, and collateral for a campaign centered on expanding the conceptual understanding of Outsider art, specifically that Paul Jacoulet, a perpetually misunderstood and misclassified French artist working in Japan. The focus of the campaign was the Outsider Art Fair in New York, held this weekend.

  • Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist

    Paul Jacoulet, Outsider Artist

    Today marks the publication of a new piece of art criticism I wrote. Subtitled “A reconsideration of Japanese Woodcut Art from a Parisian in Japan, 1934 – 1960”, the booklet has this central thesis: You can purchase here on Amazon:

  • Intranet Knowledge Sharing Platform

    Here’s some work we did at Civic Elevator on a system for pulling together the knowledge of geographically disbursed team members working across a dozen of newly acquired companies. This is one of the most common initial instincts in any consolidation effort– we’re certain that pulling together the intelligence of skilled people and getting them…

  • Workshop: Headline Ideation at Client Executive Retreat

    Workshop: Headline Ideation at Client Executive Retreat

    Today I conducted a workshop for 60 people at the offsite retreat of a large Civic Elevator customer. The purpose was to gather a wide set of objectives at the local business level in order to map efforts to the larger corporate strategy, which Civic has helped develop through extensive technology consulting.

  • Lead Generation Tool on Civic Elevator

    Lead Generation Tool on Civic Elevator

    This month we launched a minimum viable product for a lead generation tool based on public data and commercially available business records. Here’s our overview: Here’s an example of installed base— a search on Civic of more than 40,000 elevators in Pennsylvania: The result is a custom list of targets with detailed phone, email, and…

  • Photos: Graduation 2022

    Today I travelled to Minneapolis to take photos of Christian X. O’Neil on campus on graduation day.

  • 2021 In Review at Civic Elevator

    2021 In Review at Civic Elevator

    As we close the year, here’s a look at some of what we achieved in 2021: Looking forward to 2022!

  • Appearance: “Lajuana Lampkins Presents: Ghetto Art (In Honor of Prince Akbar)”

    Today marks the release of “Lajuana Lampkins Presents: Ghetto Art (In Honor of Prince Akbar)”, a video by Julia Mondschean and others about an art show last summer. Here’s some stills: Here’s the complete video:

  • Acquisiton of UpVate

    Acquisiton of UpVate

    Today I helped Civic Elevator close the purchase of UpVate, maker of the leading elevator compliance software in New York City and Massachusetts. Civic will be absorbing UpVate’s team members into our existing operation.