When Good Things Happen to Stupid People

Okay, so maybe "stupid" is too strong a self-descriptor. But it's how I felt earlier this week, when I sent out an accidental invitation to LinkedIn to pretty much everyone in my electronic world.

I'm over it now. In fact, I've had a few good laughs about it, and I guess my hastily appended apology email made a few other people chuckle, too.

You know how they say every cloud has a silver lining? Here's what came out of the whole embarrassing snafu. The managing editor at my favourite Canadian magazine, More, called me up yesterday. Turns out one of her staffers got the apology email. And it made her laugh, too. So – bless her pointed head – she forwarded it to the managing editor. (I'm not sure how the editor didn't get the email herself, as I've pitched a few things to her in the past. Maybe her spam filters have more sophisticated idiot detectors than other people's do.)

Anyway. The managing editor called me up and said these few words, which totally made my day: "We want to run your apology email in the front of our magazine. Is that OK with you?"

Two words: right on. Now, if I can only get her to join my LinkedIn network...