BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / The "Good News" thread

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** October 30, 2014 9:08 pm

I won a cruise!!

**Posted by nakahara** October 30, 2014 9:45 pm

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
I won a cruise!!

Congrats, sounds great!
Where to?

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** October 30, 2014 10:35 pm

To Oslo Norway, I just booked it with my best friend! I can't wait!

**Posted by eurydike** October 31, 2014 7:40 am

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
To Oslo Norway, I just booked it with my best friend! I can't wait!

That's amazing! Enjoy!!! Oslo is such a wonderful place. I've been there this summer and fell in love with it.

**Posted by nakahara** October 31, 2014 7:52 am

Fantastic trip, really. Wish you a good time in Oslo.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** October 31, 2014 8:20 am

Thanks! It's just what I need! And it's perfect timing I'll get to see Oslo around Christmas time!

I just have a slight problem ordering my ticket....my friend has an insanely long name and there weren't enough characters to fill in her front names...

A lot of people won the cruice tickets I found out... but a lot of people were unlucky and had to pay extra fees when booking. I haven't paid a cent!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 11, 2014 7:31 pm

My work place struck world fame after BBC Health posted an article about us that came in top 10 of most read articles from them worldwide.

I am so happy and proud, I hope this will help us get the funding we need!

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29755469

(And I had a part in getting the statistics, doing a lot of the legwork)

**Posted by MartaSt** November 11, 2014 8:52 pm

Congrats, Phantom, I think you all are doing great job with dealing with this problem

**Posted by Russell** November 12, 2014 3:45 am

Cool!

**Posted by Davina** November 12, 2014 10:09 pm

Congrats!

**Posted by Davina** November 14, 2014 2:47 pm

Good social media week for me! Facebook and Twitter can be lovely places...sometimes!

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 14, 2014 4:01 pm

Davina wrote:
Good social media week for me! Facebook and Twitter can be lovely places...sometimes!

That's nice to hear, Davina. I'm happy for you.

**Posted by Davina** November 15, 2014 10:57 am

Thank you. Now if FB would just stop messing about with limiting reach for my Horse Tribe page I'll be a totally happy bunny!

**Posted by besleybean** November 15, 2014 11:11 am

Sorry, Davina, possibly a bit of a boring techy question but I don't really understand that.
What do you mean 'limit reaching'?
I don't do FB that much.

**Posted by Davina** November 15, 2014 12:46 pm

With pages they want the Admin/owner to pay for advertising. Therefore they use algorithms to limit the reach of anything posted. That is why people are so keen for posts to be 'liked' for pages. Otherwise you find that with (as in my case) over 3,000 people who like your actual page, the reach is sometimes limited to as low as 150! Things like clicking not to see a post or posts also affects their calculations. I absolutely refuse to pay to advertise (my business doesn't make enough profit for that) and many other pages are fan and community pages, not businesses, so why should they have to pay to advertise? My posts are not generally adverts- although sometimes I do put on a recent order etc.- but more to entertain and uplift (hopefully). Generally the same as I put on My Twitter account (which I know you follow and sometimes retweet or favourite).

Aside from that: Sean Patrick Flanery and Josh McDermitt are amongst my favourite FB/Twitter folk at the moment.

**Posted by besleybean** November 15, 2014 12:58 pm

Oh I see, yes I tend to like pages if people ask for it and I'm happy to retweet you.
I don't know either of those Twitter accounts.
But then I've been at my follow limit for a while now.

Last edited by besleybean (November 15, 2014 12:59 pm)

**Posted by Davina** November 16, 2014 1:04 pm

Now I have also had another comment favourited on Twitter by Sean's dog (she was a rescue and has a torn ear). Her name is Donut! Awww! I love some of the things you find on Twitter BB!

**Posted by besleybean** November 16, 2014 1:14 pm

I like to retweet on a variety of topics of interest to me...
But many don't like the fan girl stuff...
And I irritate the heck out of many fan girls!

**Posted by Davina** November 17, 2014 7:56 am

Seriously though...if I see one more bloody tweet about 1D I will, quite possibly, scream out loud!

**Posted by besleybean** November 17, 2014 5:16 pm

Tee Hee.