{"id":3606,"date":"2008-07-11T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/proudly-not-associated-with-any-whos-who\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:52:00","slug":"proudly-not-associated-with-any-whos-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/proudly-not-associated-with-any-whos-who.html","title":{"rendered":"Proudly NOT Associated With Any Who&#8217;s Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I received an invitation from yet another Who\u2019s Who today, this time by ordinary mail. This one was Cambridge Who\u2019s Who. Given what I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/another-whos-who-scam.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">learned <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/sterling-whos-who-update-watch-this.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">experienced<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/primary-alliance-group.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">other<\/a> Who\u2019s Who organizations, I\u2019m not surprised that they emphasize that they are proudly <a href=\"http:\/\/annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/ala-sells-me-out-to-scam-artists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>not<\/em> associated<\/a> with any other Who\u2019s Who organization.<\/p>\n<p>This one is much glossier, with a blog and a more impressive web presence than some of the others. But they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgewhoswho.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">acknowledge<\/a> that all they are is a database of contact and biographical information.<\/p>\n<p>I first heard of Cambridge Who\u2019s Who from <a href=\"http:\/\/annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/ala-sells-me-out-to-scam-artists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Annoyed Librarian<\/a>. There\u2019s also a collection of links at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scam.com\/showthread.php?p=445882\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scam.com<\/a> (which can\u2019t be a good sign) and an entry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripoffreport.com\/reports\/0\/345\/RipOff0345134.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rip-off Report<\/a>. Others have posted their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawnolson.net\/a\/1142\/scams-to-make-you-feel-cool.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">points of view<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/367915\/cambridge_whos_who_manchester_whos.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">insights<\/a>, and even video content <a href=\"http:\/\/willvideoforfood.com\/2008\/01\/16\/cambridge-whos-who-is-it-a-scam-my-story-on-video\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">online<\/a> about their own <a href=\"http:\/\/accrispin.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/victoria-strauss-beware-whos-who.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">experiences<\/a>. You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><p>As for me, I\u2019m not just proudly not associated with any <em>other<\/em> Who\u2019s Who. I\u2019m proudly not associated with any Who\u2019s Who whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-348821168959982952?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an invitation from yet another Who\u2019s Who today, this time by ordinary mail. This one was Cambridge Who\u2019s Who. Given what I\u2019ve learned and experienced about other Who\u2019s Who organizations, I\u2019m not surprised that they emphasize that they are proudly not associated with any other Who\u2019s Who organization. This one is much glossier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Proudly NOT Associated With Any Who&#039;s Who<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I received an invitation from yet another Who&#039;s Who today, this time by ordinary mail. This one was Cambridge Who&#039;s Who. 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