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Mar4, 2024

Genuine Video vs. Deepfake Video

By Joanne Z. Tan | Mar 4, 2024 | Branding, Video, Digital marketing, Content marketing, Personal branding, Brand building, Stand for Something, Advertising, AI, Technology, AI & Technology, | 0 Comments

To fight the danger of deepfake video, all video makers are called to make a one-sentence disclaimer: "This is a genuine video, Deepfake is not used"....

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Feb22, 2024

Life and Death on Mount Aconcagua – “Interviews of Notables and Influencers”

By Joanne Z. Tan | Feb 22, 2024 | Personal branding, Interviews of Notables and Influencers, Stand for Something, | 0 Comments

Gary Middlemiss and his friends did a death-defying climb of 23,000 feet to the peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, experiencing the best and the wo...

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Feb20, 2024

The Roaming Spirit of Alexei Navalny

By Joanne Z. Tan | Feb 20, 2024 | Branding, Personal branding, Brand building, Stand for Something, Politics, Poems & Memoir by Joanne Tan, Leadership, | 0 Comments

The Roaming Spirit of Alexei Navalny To watch as a video To listen as a podcast   Like a meteor lighting up the Arctic night, no Sun...

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Jan7, 2024

Taylor Swift – A Quintessential American Brand and a Symbol for Full Womanhood

By Joanne Z. Tan | Jan 7, 2024 | Branding, Personal branding, Brand building, Stand for Something, Brands, | 0 Comments

What is today's "womanhood"? Why Taylor Swift symbolizes the fullness of womanhood? Why her American personal brand and global business brand transcen...

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Oct20, 2023

World War 3 by Proxy?

By Joanne Z. Tan | Oct 20, 2023 | Stand for Something, Politics, | 0 Comments

World War 3 is unfolding by proxies in the Israel-Hamas War (US & Iran), the Ukraine-Russia War (NATO vs. Russia and its authoritarian supporters)...

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Oct1, 2023

News, Anxiety, Polarization – For the Love of our Country and a Good Night Sleep

By Joanne Z. Tan | Oct 1, 2023 | Stand for Something, Politics, | 0 Comments

Political polarization and rating-driven media are creating anxiety, stress, depression. How to protect our mental health and democracy from constant ...

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Jul30, 2023

Oppenheimer and the Way of Persuasion in a Bygone Era

By Joanne Z. Tan | Jul 30, 2023 | Stand for Something, Politics, | 0 Comments

To watch as a video To listen as a podcast Lately I was a bit obsessed with learning everything about J. Robert Oppenheimer. 18 years ago I went...

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May13, 2023

Don’t surrender your own identity and personal freedom

By Joanne Z. Tan | May 13, 2023 | Branding, Personal branding, Brand building, Stand for Something, | 0 Comments

Individual identity, freedom and diversity can never threaten a true democracy but only strengthen it. Racism, antisemitism, and white supremacism are...

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Apr8, 2023

The Tennessee Three – A Poem

By Joanne Z. Tan | Apr 8, 2023 | Stand for Something, Politics, Poems & Memoir by Joanne Tan, | 0 Comments

A short poem about The Tennessee Three, the holy week, and all that happened last week, and will happen.  Since 2016, we are numbed by the daily onsl...

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Mar29, 2023

Brand Building, Organizational Culture, Brand Loyalty

By Joanne Z. Tan | Mar 29, 2023 | Branding, Personal branding, Brand building, Stand for Something, Brands, | 0 Comments

Brand building, when done correctly, drives a thriving internal organizational culture, and external brand loyalty on the part of  long term customer...

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