This is an open letter to Organized Wisdom, and specifically to
Kathy Cunningham,
@kidpsychnurse and other professionals who have been "profiled" without their knowledge.
Organized Wisdom claims to have over 5700 Expert "Curators" including you! Churning out lots of great content for their site. They make a very big deal out of their "experts" to sell advertising to drug companies and other media networks.
Are you ok with the Abilify and Lantus advertisements next to your name, likeness on this page?
http://organizedwisdom.com/constitution-not-grounds-for-obama-violating-debt-ceiling/5201000/nxi/med
Click here to view your profile.
http://organizedwisdom.com/Kathy-Cunningham/kidpsychnurse/show/pxne/med
We have made a very simple request of Unity Stoakes, President of Organized Wisdom - Notify All Your Curators, that they are being profiled, and their Twitter streams harvested for Profit (In our eyes this is simple exploitation).
Despite our requests, they continue to stall, stonewall, make excuses - so, we've decided to do the Nursing notifications ourselves.
Did you know Organized Wisdom is looking to profit from your name, reputation and would like to keep you in the dark as long as possible?
Like you, I was profiled on Organized Wisdom and my tweets being "harvested" and added to their index. When displayed in their index, my name, my photo and drug advertising were displayed prominently.
So, a few questions.
1. Did you know you were profiled on Organized Wisdom? Most nurses (and doctors) contacted do not. Almost every profile I've come across is "Not Yet Claimed"
2. Do you consent to your name/likeness being used to promote their site? Are you OK with them selling you as an "expert" to promote their own site.
3. Do you consent to your tweet streams, being harvested, unfiltered and added to an organization that chiefly sells drug advertising? It implies your endorsement.
4. Did you know, once submitted, your favorite sites are copied, plagiarized and their copyrights infringed upon.
5. Did you know, that as a "curator" you receive no compensation, even though Organized Wisdom makes money hand over fist from drug advertising. Can you say exploitation?
6. Did you know, that Organized Wisdom is now competing with you in the search engines, using your name, likeness, meta tags?
Organized Wisdom displays the Health On The Net (HONcode) badge and is in violation of several of their eight criteria.
HONcode violations can be reported here if you feel you're being exploited: http://bit.ly/k8G096
I've been in touch with HON about this, and they state their "code" isn't set up to deal with social media and its applications. Thus, they can recertify HON even though they are exploiting you!
According to Twitter's user agreement, third parties may harvest your information at will with or without your knowledge.
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This is not a new issue, nor are the abusive, exploitative and plagiaristic practices employed by Organized Wisdom.
Expert Curators, WisdomCards & The True Wisdom of @organizedwisdom, Laika's MedLibLog:"I felt flattered: "recommended as an expert curator for Organized Wisdom"…. That sounds like any scientists could only dream of.
And before I realised it, I retweeted the message (repeated the message to my twitter stream).
Immediately I felt a bit uncomfortable. And this feeling grew as I saw almost everybody in my Twitter stream being labeled as an "Expert Curator". … and everybody retweeting his/her "pat on the back" and congratulating each other….
I don't have the original retweets, but a search for "Expert Curator" shows that last weeks "expert-curator"-retweets still continue"
http://bit.ly/kkTblm
More Organized Wisdom Un-Fair Play, Dr. R.L.Bates:"Fellow bloggers do you remember Wellsphere? Well, the latest "thief" of our information using our reputations and twitter feeds in a similar way is Organized Wisdom. Check out @laikas recent blog post on the topic: Expert Curators, WisdomCards & The True Wisdom of @organizedwisdom
http://rlbatesmd.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-organized-wisdom-un-fair-play.html
Organized Wisdom (#schizophrenia) What's with hawking drugs to families dealing with #mentalillness? Andrew Lopez, RN:"As a Registered Nurse, and Expert Curator, I'd strongly object to Drug Advertising being placed next to helpful resources I submit to assist patients and families members deal with a Schizophrenia diagnosis.
Does it not bother you fellow "curators" that Organized Wisdom is using your time and effort, to sell pharmaceutical drugs to consumers?
Does it not bother you that by placing the ad next to your name, likeness you are making an "implied" endorsement?"
http://4nursing.blogspot.com/2011/05/organized-wisdom-schizophrenia-what.html
Organized Wisdom, Why Is My Site Name, Meta Tags On Your Pages? site:organizedwisdom.com nursefriendly.com - Google Search:"If your site has been submitted to Organized Wisdom, take note:
This is one of the tactics that we strongly object to. Organized Wisdom is using my site name, and meta tags to compete with our site in the search engines.
They are infringing on my business name and stealing traffic from people searching for us. And from you if your site has been submitted to Organized Wisdom.
Andrew Lopez, RN, @nursefriendly."
http://4nursing.blogspot.com/2011/05/organized-wisdom-why-is-my-site-name.html
A discussion of the business practices we object to can be found here :
OrganizedWisdom's Twitter Hashtag #organizedwisdom
More on copyright issues explained by Dr. Simon Sikorski
Healthcare Marketing Center of Excellence, Copyright Violations:"There was much debate over what is construed as Fair Use. Some are fine with OrganizedWisdom plagiarizing their websites word for word and making money off of their work.
Major concerns raised during #EndToFarms chat:
1) OrganizedWisdom not only plagiarizes but claims ownership of your work. They include -"OrganizedWisdom" next to every piece of information that has been copied from your copyrighted material
2) Just because OrganizedWisdom links to your work does not in any manner constitute "Fair Use"
3) In many cases, the doctors' own names were displayed infringing on major privacy concerns
5) The link itself is not the plagiarism we refer to. We couldn't care less about the link. What is important:"
http://bit.ly/kTwOkT
We'll be following and discussing this issue for a long time to come, feel free to join in and ask questions.
#nursefriendly
Andrew Lopez, RN
@nursefriendly, info@nursefriendly.com
856-415-9617
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