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 the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, 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.