Its not easy being an ethical consumer, these days — especially if youre hoping to buy products that embody all or most of the ethical values you care about.

Heres an example. If you like salmon, and if youre the sort of consumer who wants to eat ethically, should you buy organic salmon or buy wild salmon? After all, theres a huge effort these days to promote organic foods as ethical — gentler on the earth, and so on. Of course, others arent so sure that theres much benefit to organic foods, and some even argue that the organic label is more a status symbol than anything else.

Now what about wild vs farmed? Som

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E-mail marketing, with 92% of the U.S. internet users sending and reading e-mail, according to Pew Internet and American Life Project, it’s a no brainer.

Right? Yes and no. E-mail marketing no longer reaches your audience the way it used to. People used to sit at their Gateway desktops every night, dial into their Netscape and check e-mails while watching Family Matters.

The story is now a bit different. One in five marketing e-mails is opened on a smart phone. This changes a few things for your e-mail marketing campaign. T

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Linfield Adult Degree Program, announces that it will be making its Path to Scholarships® workshops available as a service to students who apply for admission to either Linfield Colleges accredited bachelors degree or professional certificate programs. The workshops are being held twice in the coming weeks for those students who plan to enroll at Linfield in the 2012 spring or summer semesters.

The Path to Scholarships® workshops are led by Gerardo Ochoa, Associate Director of Financial Aid at Linfield College, Portland Campus and Co-author of Path to Scholarships® College Edition. Mr. Oc

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The Globe and Mail reported yesterday that Ontario hospitals are scrambling to eliminate executive perks, in the face of new rules stating that compensation practices must be made public. Ontarios hospitals are funded by tax dollars, and clearly they dont want to be seen spending those dollars on things the public is likely to find dubious.

A few quick thoughts:

1. To a certain extent, transparency is an alternative to good governance: we the public want access to the details if we worry that the people who are supposed to be taking care of those details arent doing a good job of it. Yet the Globe story makes no mention of governance.

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Starting a business online is easier today than ever. You no longer need to be a coding expert in order to create a blog or a website you just need to know what tools are out there. Best of all, many of those tools are completely free and open-source.

At the heart of it all sits WordPress. WordPress started out as a blogging software platform, but it’s evolved into much more. Today, WordPress is one of the most intuitive and versatile content management systems (CMS) around. N

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