Siddarth, who set up the Internet Book Database website, is a friend of mine on MySpace. When I set up a Children's Fiction Board after leaving the PAMB, I sent out an event invitation to all my MySpace friends and invited them to join the forum (which no longer exists). Siddarth sent me a private message and asked me to moderate a Children's Fiction Board on his site.
The astonishing thing is that he made me an administrator, giving me all kinds of access to the forums that I have never used. Do I have an honest face?
Anyway, it is contacts like this that have slowly paid off over the years. There is no such thing as pure luck, you have to create it so that when the right time comes, you are in the right place.