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Ryan, while you and I are poles apart politically (I think Obama has sold out to the conservatives), and while I do consider myself a person of faith, I don’t happen to be a Christian, or particularly religious. But for me, those are not reasons to unsub. You always keep a civil tone, and I think core disagreements force me to rethink my positions, justify them to myself, and sometimes find them wanting and shift.
Tags: civil disagreement·conservative christians·ethics·Ryan Healy
My I-friend Kevin Lovelady is going after a market that few would dare to pursue: people who’ve failed in business. Kevin, who has been a strong and consistent supporter of my Business Ethics Pledge campaign, feels that people who experience business failure feel “abandoned” and need resources. So he’s set up a blog, a Facebook [...]
Tags: business failures anonymous·kevin lovelady·support group·web 2.0·web 3.0
I don’t think I’ve blogged about it before, but I’ve had serious concerns for years about Google’s placement of access to content far above creators’ rights and copyright, have followed the Authors Guild/National Writers Union court case and settlement, and ended up after some internal debate choosing to remove my own works from the settlement [...]
Tags: copyright·creators rights·fair use·google book settlement
Cooperate with others to open new markets. It’s one of the key principles of my brand new book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson), released this week by John Wiley & Sons. The book is a manual for thriving by doing the right thing, showing businesses that Green and ethical practices aren’t [...]
Tags: affiliate commissions·book launch campaigns·Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green·marketing partnerships
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, until he, too, moved on, and another friend moved in. Today, I went to see that poet friend for the first time since [...]
Tags: facebook·friendships·reconnecting·social media·twitter
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 worry about shaming themselves in front of Horace Mann’s ghost. These two M.I.T. professors have both made substantial contributions in developing countries, bringing life-changing [...]
Tags: cell phones·grameenphone·horace mann·Iqbal Quadir·laptops·Nicholas Negroponte·one laptop per child
Organizers of Blog Action Day are pleased indeed, calling it “one of largest social action events ever held on the web.” 32,000 posts, including three world leaders: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who got the very first UK post in just as the clock turned midnight–and staffers from President Obama and the ruling party of [...]
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Name: Shel Horowitz
Location: Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
A blog about business ethics from Shel Horowitz, expert on Green principles and business ethics as success drivers. This blog covers the intersections of ethics, politics, media, marketing, and sustainability.
About Shel: Copywriter, marketing and publishing consultant, speaker, and award-winning author of seven books. The three most recent are Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, and Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy world.
Shel specializes in affordable, ethical, and effective marketing for authors, publishers, small businesses, nonprofits, and community groups.
He's currently engaged in a campaign to get 25,000 people to sign--and spread--the Business Ethics Pledge: www.business-ethics-pledge.org
Wow! Talk About Speed to Market: 21 Days from Concept to Release
May 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Business-general, General Commentary, Web 2.0/Social Media
Ever hear of the first-mover advantage? That’s a concept that Gravity Switch, a local web services firm here in Western Massachusetts, clearly understands. In three weeks, these guys came up with an idea (for a kiosk to frame an iPad, for touchscreen applications like museum displays), got the thing—called “iBracket”—prototyped and built, and started selling [...]
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Tags: gravity switch·iBracket·iPad frame·kiosk·speed to market