I made a mistake!

Somehow...I landed on an old post from Sellsius about a blogging competition.  I was so excited in posting it here for you to check out, that I didn't realize that it was the right day...wrong year!   To this day, I cannot figure out how I randomly landed on that page.   Anyhow...I actually published the post promoting this to R TEAM readers.   I was a tad embarrassed when Jay caught my error.  He was kind enough to email me instead of blasting me via a comment.  I never met Jay, but I do read his blog and he seems like a very classy, professional fella.   So what do you do when you make a mistake on a blog post?

You have a couple options.   Because I had just published the post when the error was pointed out to me...I removed the post.  This is probably the most dramatic measure you can take.   There were no comments and for all I know...Jay was the only one who saw it (hopefully).   It's not standard practice to delete or remove something that you've put up on the internet on your blog.   I removed the post by republishing it as a "draft".   I can delete it later if I want to.

Another option, depending on the type of error is to use the strike out feature (the "s" with the "-" through the middle).   I'm not sure why this is proper protocol in the blogoshere...however, you will notice an occasional strike out when someone has made a change or correction.   I think this is most useful with mortgage program changes so people can see what was changed modified.   Once at RGC, I did a post on Rent vs. Own and I spelled principal wrong.   A "bubble-head" caught my error and commented (with a bit of attitude) about it.  I could have gone through the entire post and just corrected my spelling...instead, because it was called out via a comment, I lined out my boo-boo and made my corrections.   Funny side note: when the Seattle Bubble did their rebuttle to my post, the author made the same spelling error!   We are all human, aren't we?!

I have also added an UPDATE (with the date/time): to post if I felt that was the appropriate way to add or correct information.   You could do a new post linking back to the corrected, however, if someone has saved the link to the post that needs updating, they may not be directed to the new updated post.

Bottom line...mistakes happen and they are ours to fix.  Typically, it's not a biggy!