Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 As Ped mentioned in a thread a few days ago, Basschat is planning to increase its presence on social networks, and two of us have been chosen to help run its accounts: I (Silvia) am now running the Twitter account (@basschatuk) and Jellyfish (Chris) is taking care of Basschat's Facebook page. It's still early days, but we both have some good ideas we intend to implement soon in order to extend Basschat's audience and give a strong voice to our community on the two main social networks - not to mention keep you up to date with interesting threads, gear news, competitions, freebies etc, and hopefully also make you smile or laugh Chris (Ped) and the other admins are still involved, and are keeping an eye on the accounts as well, but will at last be able to take a back seat and dedicate their time and efforts to the new projects they are working on. If you are on FB and Twitter, please check out Basschat's accounts and like or follow us. We should be fully up and running in the next few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enricogaletta Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Great idea Silvia!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immo Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 If you'd ever need some help with topics like "trivia: how's the bass industry in Middle Europe" or something, anything, I'd gladly help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='Immo' timestamp='1345033420' post='1772598'] If you'd ever need some help with topics like "trivia: how's the bass industry in Middle Europe" or something, anything, I'd gladly help [/quote] LOL if you post such trivia or info on here, and the thread is successful, you bet I may well tweet about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='enricogaletta' timestamp='1345029842' post='1772484'] Great idea Silvia!! [/quote] Thanks Enrico - it was Ped's idea; Chris and I only offered our help and were chosen among other candidates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Sorry, don't do facebook or twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydentaku Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1345041619' post='1772750'] Sorry, don't do facebook or twitter. [/quote] Only a matter of time. It with come for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkin Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1345041998' post='1772755'] Only a matter of time. It with come for you! [/quote] That's what I was told. I've had a Facebook account for a couple of years now, and it still makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. I think I've "liked" the BC pagey thing, but I've no idea how to "follow" it, or what will happen if I do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 (edited) [quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1345041619' post='1772750'] Sorry, don't do facebook or twitter. [/quote] Nor me; but I am a Twitter widower. PS. Though good luck & have fun to those who do. Edited August 15, 2012 by Big_Stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lfalex v1.1 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1345041619' post='1772750'] Sorry, don't do facebook or twitter. [/quote] Nor I. Can't stand any kind of social networking.... Apart from this place, but that's much more "uni-directional"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellyfish Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Thanks to Silvia for starting this topic. I'm the other half of the team, and will be mainly responsible for Basschat on Facebook. For those of you wondering, nothing much is going to change. For those who currently follow or 'like' Basschat on Facebook, you'll probably notice an increase in posts overall, but nothing that would be considered spam. Mainly interesting and funny things as well as links to competitions for free stuff from other companies (in the past few hours I've posted one from Warwick who are giving away an amp and one from EMG who are giving away a Spector and and an Ampeg amp +cab). For those of you who are at least a bit curious and are on the fence about whether Facebook is a good thing, I'd definitely urge you to sign up and give the Basschat page a 'like'! As well as links to other companies promotions, we've certainly got plans to do our own giveaways/competitions so if you don't want to miss out on free stuff, get yourselves on there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Incidentally, whilst most companies have a FB presence, I'm still occasionally drawing a blank when I carry out a Twitter search for the same names. As Chris said, we are not going to spam but aim to inform and, if at all possible, entertain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='Immo' timestamp='1345033420' post='1772598'] If you'd ever need some help with topics like "trivia: how's the bass industry in Middle Europe" or something, anything, I'd gladly help [/quote] [quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1345034986' post='1772642'] LOL if you post such trivia or info on here, and the thread is successful, you bet I may well tweet about it [/quote] I've just re-read this and realised my reply sounds seriously rude! Apologies, Immo, it was meant to sound purely jokey - there is no reason why anything about music in Mitteleuropa should be any more trivial than anything about the UK or the rest of the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdowner Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 aren't you slightly worried that this site will be invaded by weirdos and riffraff, and water down the otherwise normal and sane group that are currently resident on here though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 (edited) [quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1345062846' post='1773157'] aren't you slightly worried that this site will be invaded by weirdos and riffraff, and water down the otherwise normal and sane group that are currently resident on here though? [/quote] LOL why should that be? Most of the followers/likes we have on Twitter and FB are either bass/gear companies or BC members PS I will eventually get round to following back all of you guys. I need to do that in stages in order to keep track of progress. Edited August 15, 2012 by bluejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdowner Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1345063258' post='1773166'] LOL why should that be? Most of the followers/likes we have on Twitter and FB are either bass/gear companies or BC members :DPS I will eventually get round to following back all of you guys. I need to do that in stages in order to keep track of progress. [/quote] I think you took me seriously! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdowner Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Liked on FB - keep up the good work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Nah, I didn't take it seriously, hence the LOL and the smiley. As for weirdos and riff-raff on t'internet... let's draw a veil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1345063438' post='1773168'] Liked on FB - keep up the good work [/quote] Thank you David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhammer666 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 im in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immo Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 [quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1345062456' post='1773148'] I've just re-read this and realised my reply sounds seriously rude! Apologies, Immo, it was meant to sound purely jokey - there is no reason why anything about music in Mitteleuropa should be any more trivial than anything about the UK or the rest of the world [/quote] No offence taken, I know what you meant . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 I tweeted Ped's blog about his visit to Rotosound and the guys there were very happy and re-tweeted it. Good job, Ped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 You mark my words. It will all end in a big argument where everyone will fall out with everyone else and no one will talk to each other for months all because someone took a comment the wrong way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted August 16, 2012 Author Share Posted August 16, 2012 [quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1345155955' post='1774523'] You mark my words. It will all end in a big argument where everyone will fall out with everyone else and no one will talk to each other for months all because someone took a comment the wrong way. [/quote] And that will be a conflagration on an even larger scale than usual, involving Facebook and Twitter as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 [quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1345155955' post='1774523'] You mark my words. It will all end in a big argument where everyone will fall out with everyone else and no one will talk to each other for months all because someone took a comment the wrong way. [/quote] I [b]knew[/b] it. Some misantrope will always come and distroy all the fun. I'm not talking to you anymore! (well, I [b]am[/b] saving someone else the trouble of writing the obvious, right?) bassbest, bassbert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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