Principled Profit: The Good Business Blog
Blog URL http://www.principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/
Located Hadley, Massachusetts USA
Tags marketing, media, ethics, politics, sustainability, green principles, environment, business, social media
Blogging on the intersections of marketing, media, politics, ethics, and sustainability, since 2004. By Shel Horowitz, ward-winning author of Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First and six other books.
Latest Blog Posts
- Palin’s Book Trashes Alaska Republican Former Ally: “The Falafel Lady” on Nov 20, 2009 in Ethics in Government General Commentary Politics
Is it possible for Sarah Palin to get any more distasteful? Here’s another example of her viper-like turning on old allies when they cross her, as Geoffrey Dunn writes in Huffington Post: But perhaps the nastiest and most duplicitous passages...
- FAIR: Interlocking Directorates Could Influence Media Reportage on Healthcare on Nov 18, 2009 in Media Ethics Social and Economic Justice propaganda healthcare reform media directorships media influence
In all, though healthcare reform has been mentioned thousands of times in the output of these media corporations’ major outlets, single-payer was mentioned in only 164 articles FAIR: Interlocking Directorates Could Influence Media Reportage on Heal...
- World Wildlife Fund Teleseminar on Climate Change/Corporate Partnerships on Nov 14, 2009 in climate change JohnsonDiversey LEED World Wildlife Fund
I received the following letter to the editor about the good work 22 corporations are doing, partnering with WWF on climate change and offering a teleseminar November 18. I haven’t checked into it other than to visit the link. Not the sort of t...
- A New Low in Anti-Obama/Anti-Muslim Propaganda? on Nov 9, 2009 in Democracy Politics censorship propaganda
Last 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 extremist (and disparaging Islam generally in terms that w...
- Breaking: No Vote to be Taken on Medicare-for-All on Nov 7, 2009 in Ethics in Government Politics Social and Economic Justice
This just in: Proponents of single-payer health care, a/k/a Medicare for All–the system used by almost every developed country in the world–will not get our promised floor vote after all. If I were in Congress right now, I’d vote no...
- Social Responsibility: A Global Virtual Summit–Q&A with John Gerstner/Discount Offer on Nov 2, 2009 in Business Ethics global virtual summit john gerstner New Models of Social Responsibility november 5 2009 november 9 2009
What motivated you to organize this conference? You could say this was an alignment of some stars that had been orbiting for quite awhile. First, social responsibility (or sustainability, corporate citizenship and green) is a topic I’m very i...
- With Social Media, I Can Cross Time Tunnels to the Distant Past on Oct 31, 2009 in facebook friendships reconnecting social media twitter
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 w...
