By PERCY A OSTONAL
Ed Tarog … ‘MWBuzz is a laudable community
service to our community and people’
MY GOOD friend, boyhood classmate
(elementary and high school) and kapit-bahay Ed Tarog had been
in the marketing field for about four
decades. Lately, he branched out to overseas consultancy job.
For now, Jakarta, Indonesia is
his home where his executive business planning expertise is being applied.
Ed was here in the US during the
first week of last April on company business trip.
Curious enough (over the phone),
I asked him if he is reading MWBuzz and if he has comments, suggestions or
anything in perspective to improve further its readership worldwide.
He said, and I quote:
"Pareng Percy, What Fred Hernandez and you have done is truly laudable and
should be appreciated by our fellow Mambulawenos, be in the Philippines or
abroad.
"Having said that, both of
you captured the imagination of the many for the great community service to our
town and people," said Ed with a very supportive statement.
Here are the excerpts from my
interview with Ed Tarog:
Percy: Pareng Ed, gusto ko lang
malaman ang kaisipan o saloobin ng tulad mong nag babasa ng "Mambulaoans
Worldwide Buzz online news blogsite ... Pareng Fred and I have gone a long way
since we launched this in November of 2011, pero I feel that other than
writers/contributors, which we don't have as of this moment, barely lang that
we are able to get the patronage of the larger sector of our 'kababayans'
around the world.
"Drafting executive business
plan seems a daunting task for us ... but for now, what I need is your personal
advice or observation."
Ed Tarog: Ang totoo niyan Pareng
Percy, hinahangaan ko in particular si Fred Hernandez. Sino sa ating mga
kababayan ang nakagawa ng kauna-unahang blog site/ online news para sa ating
bayan at mamamayang Mambulaweno at that professional format level?
With your suggestion Pareng Percy
to Fred for its creation, kahit dating mga taga-Mambulao o ang mga dating
residente na nasa ibang bansa na ay all looking forward every month reading
sometime about sa lugar na kanilang pinag mulan.
Bawat artikulo ay seguradong may
mga kritiko ...'yong iba positive but, of course, you can't satisfy everyone in
this world, but just be strong enough to stand with the negatives. Your news
were so informative that nostalgia among overseas Mambulaoans was simply over
flowing with mixed feelings at the comfort of their homes and respective
families.
I suggest that news of our town's
olden days, traditions, cultural heritage stories, people (where are they now)
death, birthday celebrations, weddings ... etc ...etc.. etc will make reading
experience of our Kabayans more appealing at nakasasabik. Maganda ang nailahad
ninyong programa ng local government in the past, but let's not talk so much
politics per se.
Also, kung meron man na dapat
gumawa ng ganitong news, dapat sana ang JPNHS Alumni Association should have
done it long time ago with its huge numbers sa buong mundo. For any projects
and activities, they can use the blog site for instant communication and
include community news at the same time.
(Ed Tarog is currently with the
Satmarindo Group of Jakarta, Indonesia, as management consultant - busineness
development group; currently the project director of PT Banten Energy, also in
Jakarta; he was the senior vice-president, chief marketing officer at the San
Miguel Corp from 1996-2000; the marketing director-US Consumer Goods Industry
at Unilever Philippines from 1992-96; class valedictorian Jose Panganiban
Elementary School (JPES) 1962; class valedictorian Jose Panganiban High School
(JPHS) 1966; cum laude, Business Administration at the University of the
Philippines (Diliman, Quezon City. Ed also took up an Executive Development
Program at the Wharton School of Business, Pennsylvania (1998); and attended
the Hardvard Business School Strategic in France (1993). While in high school,
he won a scholarship from the American Field Scholars to study for a year in
one of the high schools in Pennsylvania (1966-67). - Editors
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