[senco-forum] being recognised off the forum

maybe sometimes it is not a bad thing?

I just googled my name and got the shock of my life. It turns out that I am 
not, as I had believed, alone in the world as I appear to be a real estate 
broker in Texas, A tattoo artist in Indianapolis and a basketball playing 
student in Indiana.

No wonder I am so tired all of the time!

Tim Rupp.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul and Philippa Bodien" <bodien at gmail.com>
To: "senco forum" <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] being recognised off the forum

> maybe sometimes it is not a bad thing?
>
> had it not been for the forum and my name on it we would have missed out 
> on
> friends who'd lost our contact details meeting up with us for a w/e in
> Europe, would have missed contacts from people who needed info on dyslexia
> provision in Dubai, and I am forever grateful that Martin Miles made 
> contact
> and, as a result, came out here to do courses and bring Acceleread
> Accelewrite and Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking to our attention.
>
> Philippa
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 9:38 PM, Sheridan <sheridan.sharp1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> With my christian name it's easy to recognise me. It's not a common name.
>> I've been recognised quite a few times in real life because of my 
>> postings
>> on this forum. I can never say "Oh you must be confusing me with another
>> person!"  The only surprise that happens is that some think I'm a man ...
>> until they see me!
>>
>> Personally, I think I'm entitled to my opinions and I'm free to express
>> them
>> here or anywhere else. If people don't like them they don't have to read
>> them ;-).
>>
>>  The advice I would give is remember  that anyone can view the postings.
>> Never give individual names and always alter any situation or case study
>> when describing situations to the forum, e,g. change  students "gender" 
>> or
>> some specific details.
>>
>> Some may recognise themselves in descriptions in postings but as long as
>> you
>> don't give specific names they'd need to prove it is specifically about
>> them
>> etc you should be ok.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Sheridan
>>
>>
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