Like a chameleon, this business venture
continues to change colours. I have just received an email alerting me to the
new face of the organisation I have first written about here, with updates here and here. Holden Research and Publishing, later
re-branded PAS Research and Training, is now called "Place and Space
Research".
They have a brand new website, a twitter
account (which basically promotes their courses) and a facebook page, where there is not a single
post by members of the page and only a handful of likes are evident – one of
which is by Nikki Holden (who I believe to be the wife of Mr Ray Holden and who
was the ‘director of operations’ at Ray Holden
Publishing). They have been promoting a substantial number of training courses
taking place throughout 2013. I wonder if these are of the same standard of the
virtual conference that started my coverage of this organisation...
By the way, they have now dropped the ‘virtual’
/ non-existent journal, although just this January were still promoting it.
PS: Thank you to the various
people who continue to send me emails telling me more about
the organisation and its people, as well as their most recent activity.
It get's worse, now many legitimate organisations are promoting these courses.
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