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Definition of social responsibility

The principle that companies should contribute to the welfare of society and not be solely devoted to maximizing profits

Socially responsible companies can act in a number of ways to benefit society.

For example,

-companies can give money to the arts,

-fund academic scholarships,

-support community-building initiatives, and so on. 

-They can also commit to not pollute or to reduce the pollution they -put out, to not build weapons, and so forth

Twitter

-makes Csr info accessible to more people more of the time

awareness is a precursor to action. Just by making people aware, you change their paradigms, and new paradigms bring new motivations and new activities.

-is CSR conversations.

Just look at some of the dialogues happening on Twitter around COP15, or human rights, or employee engagement.

people are getting their points of view across.

changing the way people are talking and thinking about CSR.

-announces CSR reports.

Twitter has become a platform for creating awareness of CSR reporting in a way which has never been achieved through press releases, websites, email, or RSS.

-is the absolute best source of CSR news.

suspect that there is no news item anywhere on CSR that doesnt get tweeted, that is, noticed by a far greater community.

-stages CSR connections.

People are meeting each other, creating partnerships, making deals, doing new things in the CSR space.

Twitter is fast and furious, creating fast and furious changes in the way people are working together across country borders.