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Member Blog | December 09, 2009 4:09 pm

Can Practical Self-Interest Lead to Higher Ethics?| posted by Shel Horowitz

A recent LinkedIn discussion around ethics started when someone asked participants to list a few ethics books they’d found helpful. I posted several titles, culled from the archives...

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Member Blog | December 02, 2009 10:42 pm

50 Percent of the US Book Market is Now Published Sustainably: Green Press Initiative| posted by Shel Horowitz

Some good news for a change, although their statistic is somewhat misleading: 50% of market share is a looooong way from 50% of publishers. Which is why I changed it in the...

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Member Blog | November 18, 2009 6:28 pm

Do Media Directorships Influence Content?| posted by Shel Horowitz

Unafraid to be controversial (as usual),  media watchdog <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3845">Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) examined the boards of directors of...

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Member Blog | November 11, 2009 8:29 am

Joseph Goebbels Would Have Loved This Youtube Video!| posted by Shel Horowitz

The other night I saw a video that shocked me: A spliced-together out-of-context montage from Barack Obama's speeches and media appearances to create the illusion that he is a radical Muslim...

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Member Blog | November 05, 2009 7:59 pm

Social Media as Time Transporter| posted by Shel Horowitz

Thirty-one years ago, the housemate with whom I’d found an apartment moved out, and I invited a poet friend of mine to take his place. We shared that apartment for several months,...

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Member Blog | October 28, 2009 1:39 pm

Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty | posted by Shel Horowitz

Horace Mann, founding President of Antioch College, famously said "Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity." Neither Nicholas Negroponte nor Iqbal Quadir will ever have to...

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Member Blog | October 21, 2009 10:10 pm

Lesson For Marketers: Respect Your Prspect's Intelligence| posted by Shel Horowitz

One of the points I make repeatedly in Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First is to respect your prospect’s intelligence–and with...

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Member Blog | October 15, 2009 5:45 am

How Far We've Come, and How Fast!| posted by Shel Horowitz

Sometimes, instead of ranting at all the things we want to change, it's nice to take a deep breath and remember how far we've come. We've just passed Canadian Thanksgiving, and the US...

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Member Blog | October 07, 2009 9:43 pm

Does Google's Sidewiki Really Fit the 'Don't Be Evl' Motto?| posted by Shel Horowitz

Search on Google for the company's name plus the phrase "Don't Be Evil", and you'll get 366,000 hits. The company's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil">motto has been used...

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Member Blog | September 30, 2009 9:18 am

Renewable Energy vs. True Sustainabiity| posted by Shel Horowitz

Years ago, there was a  bumper sticker, "Trees are America's Renewable Resource." And yes, you can regenerate a harvestable forest in 20 years or so: a nanosecond compared to the millions of...

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