Important
decision taken
Some have great identity, so they are known ...
they are brands
Some do advertising, PR to enhance their brand value.
So that the Brand name is popular.
Ask many people,"Who walked on moon first?"
Many people answer above question quickly.
They say the right answer : Neil Armstrong
Now ask, "Who was the third person to walk on moon
?
There are hardly any answers.
So Neil Armstrong has far greater human brand value than
Pete Conrad who was the third person to walk on moon.
In
Olympics, they give 3 medals, Gold, Silver & Bronze.
So we are saying third person.
Of course if you ask who is the Gold Medalist for 100 meters
running ... people who are fans of watching running competitions
will mostly be right for last Olympics but they may not
remember the third person which means the Bronze winner.
Most of them know Usain Bolt who left Olympics but not the
bronze medalist.
So we have decided
For corporates, we have one folder for each
country.
Rest of the key stakeholders like government, NGOs, funding
agencies, NGOs, political parties, ad agencies, PR agencies,
Doctors, Hospitals, religious locations, historical locations,
rotary clubs, Lions clubs, MBA colleges, Social Work colleges,
Medical colleges, Law colleges, film celebrities, sports
celebrities, various types of celebrities, helplines ....
we have one folder each which has 258 country, SAR, island,
territory pages.
In each
country folder including India, we have pages for each social,
health, climate issues and we are inviting NGOs to share
their name and link it to the appropriate NGO official website.
Thane is not a country, it is a district of India but we
share Thane in country format. So each social, health, climate
issue has one page.
We have
individual folders for each social, Health, climate issue
where we share challenges and solutions, success stories
and failure points
Thane
is a district in India which means Thane is not a country.
If we see the population table of the world on 18.8.2019
at 22.24 hrs, Thane at just 8 million population (We do
not know the exact population of Thane district on 18.8.2019),
only more than 102 countries are above Thane population.
So Thane (in terms of population) is bigger than SAR HongKong,
and well known countries like Singapore, Denmark, Finland,
Newzealand, Kuwait, Jamaica (country of Usain Bolt), Fiji,
Bhutan ......
We want many citizens of Thane to volunteer or donate even
small amount to enhance the identity of Thane district and
make it as one where everybody helps related government
offices and make them ideal power houses, and with citizens
we want to make Brand Thane.
No
PM, President, Queen, King can change the geographic conditions
in just 5 years unless one puts a nuclear bomb which devastate
every condition of the area. So nobody can change the beautiful
forests in some African countries or the sea conditions
in New Zealand or the ....
Simple example of founder is : When he had an almost fatal
accident, for somedays he was given oxygen therapy which
means he was kept in oxygen therapy capsule for some time
of the day which gave him oxygen. Oxygen was used for medical
treatment purpose. We are not doctors
who know the scientific reason but as a common person
with no medical science knowledge, we saw the link
as to how Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy works.
We
all use Identity.
Its like Air we breathe
without knowing the exact components of air.
Each location has identity and this location can
be a village, town, district, state, union territory, county,
country, island, territory, continent, or river, ocean,
world, universe.
The
identity of an organisation must be so clear that it becomes
yardstick against which its products, services, behaviour
and actions are measured. This means that the identity can
not simply be a slogan, a collection of phrases : it must
be visible, tangible and all embracing.
Everything
that the organisation does must be an affirmation of its
identity.
A further
component which is just as significant although it is not
visible, is how the organisation behaves : to its own staff
and to eveybody with whom it comes into contact including
customers, suppliers and communities.
Corporate
identity is concerned with four major areas of activity
:
- Products / services - what you make or sell
- Environment - where you make or sell it - the place of
physical context
- Information - how you desscribe & publicise what you
do
- Behaviour - how people within the organisation behave
to each other and to outsiders
CSRidentity.com
name has Identity not by chance but with a clear purpose.
We want to change the very concept of CSR as Corporate Social
Responsibility.
CSR means Conscience, Sustainability & Reputation.
We want to change the very thinking that only Corporates
have Social Responisbility. NGOs also have social responsibility
and so does the govenment, funding agency, media, doctors,
religious locations, countries have.
Now
if one says that Corporate Social Responsibility is just
one of the roles and responsibilities of corporates, it
is good.
But then why dont we have popular brands like Engineering,
Manufacturing, HR, Governance ... why just CSR.
It is because Conscience, Sustainability, Reputation are
key elements of not just each individual on earth but each
Government, NGO, Corporate, Media ....
We
want to create CSR's Identity in the above mentioned form
which means every individual & institution (including
governments, not for profits, for profits) should have social
responsibility.
It is like air or water.
Can a human live without air which gives us oxygen
or without water ?
So
mentioning SR as Social Responsibility in CSR is sort of
myopic (Some may call it focus but according to us the focus
is very small and does not consider every individual &
institution. C cant be missed which means without conscience
nothing survives).
Commonly
used metaphors for conscience include the "voice within",
the "inner light", or even Socrates' reliance
on what the Greeks called his "daimōnic sign",
an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός apotreptikos) inner voice heard
only when he was about to make a mistake. Conscience, as
is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national
and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying
to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable
acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent
examples of literature, music and film.
If
you want, citizens can term CSR as Citizens Social Responsibility
or national government's can term CSR as Country's Social
Responsibility or NGOs can term CSR as Community Social
Responsibility or one can term CSR as Climate Social Responsibility
...
Many
film celebrities care for their image and value themself
as a brand and create their own identity and so do sports
celebrities, music celebrities.... Science celebrities are
great and invest their time for innovations or discoveries.
So all citizens value them and their identity is automatically
created.
CSRidentity.com has created the terms developmental celebrities,
health celebrities, environment celebrities, science celebrities
and wants all citizens to value them.
Corporates
create corporate identity and even brand identity.
While many dont call them for profits, we know that ad agencies,
PR agencies, funding agencies, consultanting & research
organisations, hospitals, social entrepreneurs... are registered
as for profit entities like corporates and we want them
to enhance their identity so that citizens in their country
or citizens from other countries in this world, value their
identity.
We want not for profits like NGO/NPO to create (or if already
created then enhance) their own identity.
NGOs
/ NPOs should do it immediately because it helps them get
retail or good financial donors, volunteers....
We
know, word of mouth is great and real. But the speed is
limited through word of mouth publicity. It picks up much
faster when one uses other media like social media or use
campaigns, vehicles with expertise like ad agencies, PR
agencies...
The simple thing to calculate is the medium one uses to
travel.
If we want to go for 10 metres or 100 metres or even 1000
metres, we may use walking as a medium.
If we have to travel to meet someone who is 3 Kms or 10
Kms or 100 Kms, then we use cycle, scooter, motorcycle,
bus, train or automobile.
If we have to meet someone who is 1000 Kms or 10 000 Kms
away, then we use aircrafts.
This means that for travelling we use media. Then if yourself
or your organisation has to travel faster because you want
to scale up your operations, then please use other forms
of media.
So
now, we want to create Identity or enhance Identity for
individuals & institutions. We start with giving visibility
to them so that one can see what they are and through their
behaviour, they will create identity - no other individual
or institution can create your identity, its self.
In
case of corporates, hardly anyone meets the Board or Chairperson
or CEO ... people first meet the security person, the receptionist,
then may be lift operator .... so the identity of the corporate
starts right from how these people behave because they are
representatives of company one visits.
Corporates
create corporate identity and brand identity.
We dont understand why only corporates care for this because
Branding is helpful for NGOs, Funding agencies, celebrities,
all individuals, all countries ... because in case of organisations,
it creates good human resources in terms of employees, board
...in case of individuals they create good friends, in case
of politicians, they create good vote bank, in case of celebrities
they create good followers .......
In
advertising & PR ways, how can you write about the identity
Sanjay Kumud Moreshwar Bapat, founder of CSRidentity.com
?
BAD PR Integration
B is a short form of Best, AD is short form of advertising,
PR is short form of Public Relations, Integration is what
we do
Founder worked in Advertising & PR before starting his
life journey as Social Entrepreneur.
Yes,
some people think B stands for Bad
Instead of doing things, founder has decided to integrate
the good social programmes, initiatives, schemes that individuals
and organisation across the world do.
May be it is similar to the advertising of a broken TV for
Onida where he worked in Advertising from 1990-93. Yes,
nobody wants to buy a broken TV but the creative behind
the idea was completely different & was a great success.
Founder knows that most of the people hardly invest time
in working for the poor or working on social work because
they have their own ways of living life.
Yes,
a few million of them start companies or enterprises or
consultancies which give employment & income generation
to millions of people in different countries, some act in
films which is great because people love to go to movies
(many think social work is boring, but most of the films
have direct connection with society - not housing society
but society)
Many
people feel we are doing BAD PR which means not at all good
PR. But they must understand BAD PR means Best Advertising
& PR Integration services to every individual, organisation,
government, country doing social, health or just cheque
book philanthropy work. (We want Check before and after
signing a cheque, but we are fully aware that we cant change
the mindset of people suddenly)
The
idea is also that all individuals, organisations, projects
must be Sustainable & have positive Reputation.
Services is again what we do or he does and it is not just
servicing human beings but his vision includes all living
beings and all not living things plus of course the organisations,
countries, oceans, continents, world, universe.
So BAD PR Integration.
He is
an individual and has formed an organisation.
But he feels this organisation is "for & by all",
which means it is ideally governed by all citizens and ethics,
quality are not just words, it means ethics, quality.
Our
experience in how Reputation leads to Sustainability
Reputation helps sustainability is what
we have personally experienced on 28.8.2013 because so many
individuals and institutions helped our founders' sustainability
after an almost fatal accident.
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