If you want to say nice things about me, feel free. If you want to say un-nice things about me, that’s your right I just appreciate whatever you say is true. However, do not use my name to promote your service, site, or company without even talking to me first. I’ve sent a reply tweet asking them what’s up and an e-mail will be forthcoming. In the mean time, feel free to take a peek at what they did but excuse me for not giving them any link love from this blog.
For the record, I have no known relationship with this site nor have I ever had any communication to my knowledge with them in the past.
UPDATE: I tried contacting the company through their “live support” and got the following:
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Using my name can be totally uncool”
So this for-profit company is using your name without having contacted you first? WTF? That’s gutsy of them.
So this for-profit company is using your name without having contacted you first? WTF? That’s gutsy of them.