Close to Home by John McPherson for December 09, 2010

Yeah, know the feeling, we had an e-mail carrier with a “forward to all” button, somehow I sent it to everyone with an email address at the college. Thank goodness it was a positive email about a guy throwing starfish back into the ocean, the story basically is: two men walking the shoreline and one is picking up and throwing the starfish back into the ocean, the other guy asks “why it won’t make a difference” and he responds, it makes a difference to that one.” Got a lot of positive responses, even one from the college president who used it in one of his speaches. When I checked 85% of the people opened it within minutes. I did go into the boss as soon as I did it, and he went and opened it up and came in a few minutes later telling me to be more careful. I’m thanksful it was a good e-mail! Never made that mistake again.