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Re: Social responsibility requires unified approach, not double standards

Osama A. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:40:45 -0000

In the spirit of blogging - please actually say things that you know a damn thing about.

Oh right... you dont really have any credibility on this subject to begin with.

Re: Social responsibility requires unified approach, not double standards

Osama A. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:39:10 -0000

If you want, I can also post your phone number online and that of your pr firm? If someone else has doubts on what I'm saying here I'm sure you could clarify them, yes?

Re: Social responsibility requires unified approach, not double standards

Osama A. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:38:16 -0000

Asif - let me be even more clear here.

Your name is Asif Razzaque, Account Manager at CMC Public Relations, of whom PTC is a client.

My name is Osama A. Hashmi. I run Green & White and have known you for 2 years, having lunch approx 1 times a month. You can see that from my Disqus account and my avatar on my facebook page and business cards.

We even made you a job offer back in May for Business Development.

However, considering that you've just LIED publically to try to intentionally DISCREDIT a professional journalist in order to change the perception of PTC in this post, in my view you have zero credibility and honor as a human being and deserve the respect or time of no one.

Whats more, you've completed ruined your own credibility online as well as your clients since now we all know what your real intentions are, PTC - good work!.

This is only proves that Saad uncovered some truth in this and really hit a nerve at PTC.

And in my view, PTC using these underhanded tactics to pressurize journalists only make them that much more pathetic as a coroporation.

Re: Social responsibility requires unified approach, not double standards

Osama A. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:52:33 -0000

Asif, sorry to burst your bubble but you're wrong - Insider info and
protected reliable sources are perfectly valid. Thats why journalists create
insight about a certain topic based on analysis from the information they
can source.
Considering you're from the PR industry, I could very well question your
motives for writing some sharp comments too.

Re: Time to quench our ‘Thirst’?

Osama A. — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:19:15 -0000

I should also mention that this presentation won "Best presentation of the year" voted by the slideshare community.

Re: Have Your Say!

Osama A. — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:29:09 -0000

Jimmy - the idea's to get people together to figure out solutions together.
You nor I have the right approach to things that the best of us haven't been
able to solve for such a long time - naturally thats why those problems
exist

Re: Nestlé Pakistan - CSR activities are promising

Osama A. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:25:50 -0000

Interesting question - is training women to help increase milk production part of CSR?

Isnt it just part of their regular business if they're only training their own sources?

It will be CSR if they are allowing those women to distribute milk into an open market.

Re: Wow, What an idea….. if only telecom companies thought this way…

Osama A. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:21:35 -0000

Awesome ad - thanks for sharing!

Re: The social responsibility of media - old-school as well as new-media

Osama A. — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:56:47 -0000

Yes, certainly smaller blog owners cant check the facts all the time - and its good that in general people try to present a reasonable perspective. It makes me wonder though how easy it would be to use the medium for libel too.

Re: CSR Performance 2008 - Planning, Measuring and Demonstrating performance in the CSR function

Osama A. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:14:36 -0000

Interesting story Kamran

Re: The social responsibility of media - old-school as well as new-media

Osama A. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:12:07 -0000

Hi Andrew - thanks for the excellent comment.

Actually we agree that media shouldnt tell us how to think - far from it. But media needs to find ways making us _think_ about issues - not how, but to perform the act itself. As an example I was pretty impressed with CNN's coverage of Autism in a series of very interesting and compelling features - they compelled me to think because they gave me information I didnt know before about the rate at which autism is spreading in the country. If they hadn't, I may not have thought so much about it or may not have formed an opinion about the subject.

Regarding blog posts, I know that bloggers only have limited facts to base their writeups on sometimes, but as a blog starts becoming more important how much more responsibility do they get w.r.t. checking the facts of things online?

Re: CSR Performance 2008 - Planning, Measuring and Demonstrating performance in the CSR function

Osama A. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:00:08 -0000

Thats a good point - maybe we should bring up this issue here on SB - do you
want to write about the issue with some examples? I can atleast get people
to show up and comment on it.

Re: CSR Performance 2008 - Planning, Measuring and Demonstrating performance in the CSR function

Osama A. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:39:03 -0000

Why so glb Kamran? You dont think conferences help in making any substantial
impact? Or that MNC CSR people dont want to make any substantial impact?

Re: CSR Performance 2008 - Planning, Measuring and Demonstrating performance in the CSR function

Osama A. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:38:05 -0000

Re: On Polio, Pakistan, Religion, and the right to choose vaccinations

Osama A. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:15:05 -0000

Ow I hit a nerve. You're right about the political agenda - but is the
solution really for both sides to blame each other or to find a middle
ground? Is there no middle ground?

The corporation wont even try the solutions you mentioned Mansoor because
its not profitable for them to do so. On the other hand - corporations are
apolitical.

Is it possible, ethical, sane for a pharma company then, to approach the
clerics with influence there and ask them to distribute the vaccinations to
the people in a way that is both useful for the companies and the clerics
(assuming they need profits or cash to keep their operations running) -
clerics buy in bulk and sell to people... or am I just crazy-insane for
thinking of a ludacrous idea?

Re: On Polio, Pakistan, Religion, and the right to choose vaccinations

Osama A. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:22:06 -0000

Also on how religious scholars can be trusted to help I suppose.

But Ob how do we start on this practically? I dont believe the "fund the ngo
and make it their problem" is working.

Re: The social responsibility of media - old-school as well as new-media

Osama A. — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:26:06 -0000

Thanks for reading Will - I'm happy to have you as a reader.

That's a fantastic definition of CSR.

Very interesting thoughts on MTV too - I remember reading up on some
material which also offered an answer to whether MTV creates culture or
reflects it. I'll try to dig it up and write about it.

Re: The relevance of negativity - an example from Roosevelt

Osama A. — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:55:03 -0000

Well said Fahd!

Re: Hotels and Cancer - can they be more responsible somehow?

Osama A. — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:19:03 -0000

Hi Asma,

Interesting - I'll try to ask around about Shifa.

Regarding the law - they were required to use certain harmful retardants...
those were banned with a new law but that law still requires the use of
other chemicals and so far I haven't really found anything less harmful in
them.

Re: Airblue and irresponsible entertainment

Osama A. — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:22:05 -0000

Yea but Corona with the cab you have an option to get out and get another
one - what do you do at 30,000 ft?

Re: Why are MNCs deathly afraid of being consumer oriented?

Osama A. — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:37:53 -0000

Khurram, thanks for these comments!

One part though about MNCs taking feedback and criticism - the example you gave was from a west / foreign environments' perspective. Can you cite any examples from the Pakistani market?

Re: COMSTECH defines a new social stakeholder: NGIs (Non-govt Individuals)

Osama A. — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:34:05 -0000

Yes thats how he was mentioned in the Canadian newspaper that ran a story
about them - should have mentioned their source. There is more detail about
Ansar Burney in the NGI network website.

Re: LUMS installs JAWS and MAGic accessibility software in its labs… umm great!

Osama A. — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:16:02 -0000

Yes they can be Abdul - you can lodge it for citizen rights because this is
a basic hinderance to liberty.

Re: Can we start thinking beyond the A.B.C.’s now?

Osama A. — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:11:40 -0000

Oh lots of ways Ali - software and technology can be critical in breaking barriers of progress in society.

See the example of Shifaa.pk

Otherwise, stay tuned and hopefully I'll add a post here with some more tips

Re: Doing Social responsibility or playing with people’s emotion to increase sales?

Osama A. — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:02:07 -0000

Hmm but Mansoor why must CSR be to "give away" or "give back"? Isnt that charity?