What Is Happening Today On Gather - Monday January 4, 2010

I trust that each of you had a wonderful holiday vacation.  Can you believe it 2010.  Wow! That is even odd to type. :) There are not many contests going on at the present time but I have found lots of good stuff to keep you entertained and help you find your way around the Gather community.  I thought this was a great way to start the new year.

 

 

Gather member DiAnA D. had surgery on Wednesday.  She says she is feeling well enough to go back to work today.  Glad you are feeling better DiAnA.

 

 

Today is Gather Member Victoria H.  and her son Parker's Birthday. Happy Birthday Victoria and Parker!

 

 

A  member of the Gather community Shaunee C.'s  mother had a stroke and is paralyzed on her left side.  She is alive but in the hospital.  Please keep Shaunee and her family in your thoughts.

Shaunee sends this message to all the Gather community: Thanks for your prayers for my mother

 

 

 We have been having really cold weather lately.  The kind of weather that keeps you indoors more.  This time of year is great for getting cozy, reading or viewing a good movie.  As a result  I thought I would spotlight some book and movie reviews.

 

 

 

1.  Necrophenia by Robert Rankin - a Book Review by Kimber L.

2.  "Dead to the World" Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4 by Charlaine Harris

3.  The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude (Book)

4.  The Atlantis Code - book review

5.  Write a Novel in 2010: Author Introductions

6.  Review and trailer of "Paranormal Activity"

7.  Invictus - movie review

8.  Movie Review: Avatar

9.  Avatar and Star Trek Please Most of the People, Most of the Time

 

 

 

Since it is a new year, I thought I would spotlight a few active groups in the Gather community.  This is just a sample of the groups you will find.   There are many more. 

 

 

Susan Budig owns the group DailyFreewrite.  Freewrite can be an important jump start to writing. Habits and routine help to move you from an occasional writer to a serious, successful one. In this group we combine freewrite with habit so that each member is encouraged to take five minutes or more each day to freewrite.

 

 

 

Engagement Marketing is a group owned by  Engagement Marketing Editor.  This group  is all about Agencies, marketers, social media companies – keep up with the latest in engagement marketing. Here you can learn about what’s new in social advertising, whether you want to run your own engagement campaign on Gather or just get educated about engagement.

 

 

 

 

 

Artistic Therapy  is a very active group owned by  René Allen.  Art Therapy and Artistic Therapeutics is about the use of the creative process to increase self-awareness, thereby providing an avenue for positive transformation in your life. Here in our Artistic Therapy Group, we discuss Art Therapy and Artistic Therapeutics and the many ways in which we can all benefit by the process of exploration of the CREATIVE ARTS.

 Artistic Therapeutics affords insight into self, others, and your relationships. The process of utilizing Artistic Therapy brings forth a better understanding of the inherent creative and artistic gifts and talents not formerly recognized within oneself. The goal is to initiate a positive transformation in your life.

Artistic Therapy helps individuals cope better with stress, work through traumatic experiences, increase cognitive abilities, and have better relationships with self and others. Exploration of Artistic Therapeutics affords an avenue to better enjoy life-affirming pleasures of the creative experience. Join us to add your input, photos, artworks, ask questions, meet and interact with other artistic creatives and learn more about Artistic Therapy and Artistic Therapeutics.

 

 

 

 

Genre Creatives Challenge is a very active group owned by  Jennine D.    Genre Creative Challenge is a group that is given a monthy theme, from a specific chosen genre and or sub genre. The Judge of the month sends out a challenge to the group Members to write about or in photos a specific style, type, color, theme of photos chosen by the Judge.

All posts and photos not in keeping with the chosen specific genre of that month will be declined. All titles and or photos must include GCC or if a Non Challenger NGCC. At times the photo and writing topic judges may confer and combine a chosen photo and writing theme to make a photo essay. Photos must compliment the genre of the month, art work as well will be encouraged as well as long as it is genre of the month appropriate. I prefer to keep adult content low key and not overly graphic. Submissions for writing posts will be 3 chapters at the most and no more than 1500 words per chapter.

 

 

 

 

 Snippets  is a very active group owned by  René Allen.  WHAT IS A Snippet?    

A Snippet is a writing that is "30" ~ THIRTY words or less.

WE WRITE in FREE - FORM.  There are no particular rules to the FORM.  Just make sure your writing is "30" words or less.

WE have many AUTHORS, POETS, and CREATIVE WRITERS in Our Gather Group.  WE also have Members who LOVE writing Snippets just to join in on the FUN and sharpen up their EDITING SKILLS and writing skills.  WE WELCOME ALL NEWCOMERS!

It's not hard at all, and if you give it a TRY, WE guarantee that you'll LOVE WRITING Snippets!

Every month we have a Snippets CHALLENGE where WE WRITE in "30" words or less on a particular topic. The topics are chosen by one of the Snippets Crew Members.  A different Snippets Crew Member picks a topic each month.  And it is so much FUN!

 

 

 

 

A Gather Member's BookShare Giveaway:

 

Love from Darlene! will be posting several books weekly with designated giveaways deadline listed in the post. So keep checking the Today post for the contests.

 

 

Bookshare Giveaway Rules:

1. Leave a comment in the designated book post. 
2. Be willing to send me a mailing address to send the book to.
3. This giveaway will run until date listed in each post.  Comments can be submitted until midnight (12:00 a.m. EST). The gather member chosen will be announced in the designated post and this post soon after.
4. Multiple comments increases your chances of being chosen.
5. One gather member  will be chosen by random drawing.

 

 

 

UPDATE ON THE PROBLEMS WITH CVS CARDS

Gather has heard from members who recently received CVS gift cards that their cards were not activated.  We are so sorry this has happened!

Once previously we received a batch of gift cards from CVS that were not activated and we were able to resolve this directly with CVS and did not have to replace gift cards.  That is what we are working on right now with CVS.