Online Diva Hollie Turner on the run from creditors

Founder of OnlineDivas.com.au, Hollie Turner (pictured), is currently ducking creditors and a long line of dissatisfied members who are demanding their money back from the women’s networking site.

Australian Women Online has spoken to several women who say they have been let down, ripped off and in some cases, verbally abused by Hollie Turner, who is reportedly in the United States at present and can’t be reached. When reports surfaced last week that the TV program A Current Affair, were interested in doing a story on the Online Diva, Hollie Turner silenced her critics by promising to pay what she owed. Read more

Plagiarising Web Content is Not Ethical

You found it on the Internet so it’s free to take and use right? Wrong. Just because you see something on the web doesn’t mean you can grab it and pass it off as your own.

Recently I was alerted to the fact that someone had taken an article of mine, changed ‘VA’ wherever it appeared to their company name, and then uploaded it as their Benefits page. This is NOT okay.

I found out because I attempted to post my article online and was told it that it could not be accepted as it did not comply with editorial guidelines, and the editors thought I had taken the content from this particular site – and provided me the URL. Does this damage my reputation with that article directory? It sure does! They now think I’ve taken content when in fact it was the other way around.

Changing it ‘just a little bit’ does NOT make it yours. Read more