Hi Mr. Singleton My name is Michael Henson and while purusing through Eliyon at all the other Michael Henson's, what they did and where they lived I ran across a Michael Henson in your organization with a story that caught my attention.
I am a christian that has been searching for something for a career change that I could use my skills in a better way to serve the lord and my community.
Have you branched out to the Texas area? Would you be interested in exploring that possibility?
I was curious to know what he was talking about, so I did a search and went to http://www.eliyon.com/PublicSite/public/default.asp and found this search tool (you can go to their site, but the tool works here):
Clearly this Michael Hanson was referring to our Mike Henson, leader of our former MidiMusic and Multimedia Sig.
But as a test I did a search on Don Singleton, and found 52 Don or Donald Singletons. Three of them were me. A Google search indicates there are about 6,590 pages for "Don Singleton" and from them Eliyon came up with what it thinks are 52 Don Singletons (about 662,000 pages have both "Don" and "Singleton" but if you want the search done for pages where the word "Don" immediately preceeds the word "Singleton" you need to do the search for "Don Singleton").
They also included an article by me published in National Cristina Foundation's Magazine, an article I wrote Giving vs Taking reprinted by the Northwest Arkansas PC User Group, an article by Steve Morgan reprinted by the North Orange County Computer Club which references an article I wrote on "Using a Tabloid Newspaper to Increase User Group Membership", a Member Spotlight I wrote on Ken Johnson, which they found on a URL which is no longer supported (member.apcug.org/tcs/ioport/spot497.htm), a couple of references from the Oklahoma PCUG's old website indicating I gave them permission to reprint a number of articles we printed in the I/O Port (interestingly the reference was to the same page, but they picked it up twice: 1/6/2004 and 5/31/2004, and then they picked it up a third time on 10/17/2004 when the group changed domain names, several other pages on the TCS and APCUG web sites, and several other articles I wrote that were reprinted in other UG news letters, a reference about me that apparently appeared in the ok.general UseNet News Group, and a Quote of the Week from Discount Long Distance Digest quoting me as saying "It's a total flash in the pan that's not likely to challenge anything" about Internet Phone, and the ability to make phone calls via the internet. I don't recall ever saying that, but I find it interesting to see they quoted me.
The thing I find the most curious is that they generated a Website/Generic Description of the Tulsa Computer Society based on an article from the May 2002 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter. They correctly showed that our Website Meta-Tag Description indicates the description of our website is Information about the Tulsa Computer Society, including a large number of links to a large number of categories, used by members as they surf the net, but they still pick one thing out of one of thousands of pages to come up with what they think is our Website/Generic Description.
Actually it was an article I wrote for the April 2000 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter called AoL Pictures which was reprinted by the Front Range PC Users Group and the same article that is no longer on the internet, but is in Eliyon's cache reprinted in April, 2001 issue of The Journal of the Computer Society of West Florida which used to be cswf.org. That domain name is now owned by the Clinical Social Work Federation, and the UG's domain name is now http://www.cswf.net/
Front Range PC Users Group identified me as being the President, Editor, and Internet SIG Leader for the Tulsa Computer Society, and a Director and the Web Master for APCUG, but Eliyon never connected this "Don Singleton" with the above one.
The interesting thing is that Eliyon ignored this from the top of our web page "We provide refurbished computers to schools, churches, and non-profit agencies, Senior Citizen Centers, Tulsa Housing Authority facilities, and HUD Section 8 facilities.", and the World Partnership Ministries page which says that "The primary purpose of Helping Tulsa is Computer Refurbishing, receiving donated computers and fixing them up and providing the to schools, churches, and non-profit agencies, both in the Tulsa Area, and all over the world." and they deduced that the purpose of HelpingTulsa was to provide computers for a Christian shelter for single women, which was based on one delivery in 2002.
Eliyon offers the ability that one can Login to update your profile:
I did so, and identified the three "Don Singleton" entries that were me, and they combined them into a single entry that was combined from 27 sources. I could have posted a biography and a lot of other information, but I did not bother. Eliyon anticipates that their database will be used by Recruiters, and for Business Development, Institutional Investing, Competitive Intelligence, and by Journalism / Media. If I was looking for a job, or was concerned about the other potential uses, I would probably have spent more time sprucing up what Eliyon's database had about me.
I also tried Paula Sanders, and found 33 Paula Sanders, two of which were our Paula Sanders.
You might want to do a search on your own name, and see what you find.