Month: October 2016
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Branding & The Office Of Enterprise Risk
Branding and reputation are integrally related. The one is built on the other. And when your organization operates in an “at risk” way for an extended period of time, you can be sure that both will falter. How can you prevent such a crisis from occurring? Thinking from a branding point of view, you want […]
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Communication Is Love
I was in a meeting this morning and it seemed to go well. I think this is because we were all getting along today. Seems to me that most meetings go well or badly because of this. Communication is love. I think about that as a parent. Sometimes I yell at my kids and they […]
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How To Tell A Leader From A Fraud
This guy was talking nonstop. I was sitting there trying to read but he would just not shut up. It got so bad I had to take a photo as if in protest. (Yes, that’s my photo and I’ve covered the faces in it so as not to imply anything about a random individual who […]
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It’s OK to enjoy marketing.
Working in Washington DC you can easily develop a sort of dour attitude about the seemingly “superficial” delights of shopping. Let’s be honest: We pride ourselves on being “policy” people, wonks. There are a lot of PhDs, JDs, MBAs, MDs, and pretty much every other acronym you can think of around here. We live to […]
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That Time I Found The “Romance” Novel
In my family we did not talk about sex. Sex was dirty. Dirty people did dirty things. And we were religious, therefore not dirty. But the grownups all had ways of talking about sex, without — you know — really talking about it. For example, once I found a very explicit novel inside our bathroom, on the closed-up storage […]
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Movie Review: "Mendy"
Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009O4VJSK/ref=tmm_aiv_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr= I had low hopes for this movie but was instantly shocked at just how good it was. “Mendy” isn’t a movie for everyone, but if you are familiar with the Chasidish community and Williamsburg in particular, you will instantly recognize what is going on here and why it matters. I’ve been out of New […]
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i4i (Bible Rapper)
I have a sixth sense for up and coming talent: was one of the first bloggers at GovLoop, acquired by GovDelivery, just acquired for $153m. Spotted Chloe Valdary whose career is only just taking off. Lipa Schmeltzer landed Pepsi commercial. Get ready for i4i (Bible Rapper). https://lnkd.in/bajTpWk. (All opinions my own.) – By Dannielle Blumenthal, […]
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Government Communication Will Not Regulate Itself
I’m sure by now you’ve seen a headline attacking the amount of money the government spends each year on “public relations.” These are coming from a report published by the Government Accountability Office just this week which noted that “public relations” experts employed by the government make about $500 million in total a year. The […]
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About "Parnassah"
It’s weird how ideas get embedded in your subconscious. The younger you are the more I think this is likely to happen, because your brain is not developed enough to think critically. Such was the case, I think, with the Jewish term “parnassah,” meaning “to earn a living,” as it was used in my orbit. […]
2016 Diary - Dannielle Blumenthal 