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Social responsibility, social media – can't I just run my business how I used to? (Part 2)

Of course, you can certainly still run your business as you always have, and wait to see if corporate social responsibility and social media turn out to be passing trends. What's more, maybe you don't want to be on the cutting edge of marketing strategy—or don't need to be. It is absolutely up to you.

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Social responsibility, social media – can't I just run my business how I used to? (Part 1)

Do companies really need to implement and integrate social responsibility and social media strategies in order to succeed in today's business world? These ideas didn't even exist until relatively recently, and most businesses appeared to run smoothly before. But in the last couple of years, rarely a day has gone by without some mention in the news of companies taking on the role of social or environmental steward or engaging their customers and creating communities on the Internet. With all the talk, it seems businesses that don't incorporate these strategies will look like obsolete outcasts, soon to disappear from the market.

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Social media = time management? (Part 1)

To a casual observer, it might appear that time management has fallen to the wayside at many workplaces today: employees work well beyond their scheduled hours, including while on lunch breaks, during leisure time and social events and even on vacation. But with proper scheduling, time management should prevent work from expanding beyond regular work hours—as was the case before the Internet age. Instead, in the "knowledge economy", where the smart phone rules, scheduled work hours have become nearly meaningless.

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