What Is Happening Today On Gather - Thursday April 29, 2010

There will be a live chat with author Kimber L On Thursday April 29th @ 9 PM ET.  Click here to join the chat or to post your questions.  I hope you will be able to make it to the chat but if you can't, you can still post your questions.   The transcript will be kept up for your viewing pleasure.

 

I found a few posts that I thought may interest you. Hope you enjoy them.

1. Here comes the bride...

2. Homeless Woman 68 part 2

3.  Still Learning

4.  Sunday Freewrite... Talking myself out of ideas

5.  Casualties of the soil

6. Mount Pleasant Path

7.  A Good Day To Live A Good Day To Die

 

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Win A Free Book! "Dinosaurs Eye to Eye," A Close Encounter of the Prehistoric Kind

I know I say this every-time I announce a contest by DK but I love their posts.  They are always so informative.  Kids just love dinosaurs!

The age of dinosaurs began some 230 million years ago, near the beginning of the Mesozoic era. Dinosaurs dominated life on Earth for 165 million years until they were wiped out by a catastrophe 65 million years ago and survive only as fossils.

How much do you know about dinosaurs? The image of them as lumbering prehistoric monsters is most likely incorrect. They were probably not like most of the cold-blooded reptiles we know today, but dynamic, warm-blooded creatures with distinct anatomical features.

For your chance to win a copy of DK's "Dinosaurs Eye to Eye," all you have to do is answer one quick question.  Share your fun facts by Wednesday, May 5th. Gather is giving away one copy of this book and the winner.

 

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Join the Recipe Inspirations Flavor Challenge and You Could Win a McCormick Prize Pack and Cookware Set

Would you like to have one dinner each week already planned out? Then come join the Recipe Inspirations Flavor Challenge where you can create a McCormick meal each week. Participating Gather members will receive four (4) McCormick Recipe Inspirations, a collection of top recipes from McCormick, complete with a collectible recipe card and six pre-measured spices and herbs, for the purpose of cooking the featured recipe and sharing a review. Recipe Inspirations helps home cooks express themselves so you’ve got inspiration to make a memorable meal any night of the week.

Comments must be posted by Monday, May 3rd. Gather will randomly select 20 members who will each receive a sample of McCormick Recipe Inspirations for the purpose of writing a review. Three participating members who submit all four (4) reviews will be randomly selected.

 

 

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Win A Free Book! Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Gather is giving away two copies of the book, Admission by Jean Hanff Koreltiz. 

For your chance to win a copy of Admission, all you have to do is answer one quick question.  Comments must be posted by Friday, April 30th.

 

 

 

 

 

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 Win A Prize Pack of 4 Books! 10 Members Will Win!

Gather is giving away a Prize Pack of four suspense books. Ten winners will be chosen to win the following books

Fever Dream by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston                     

    The Lion by Nelson DeMille
 

INNOCENT=byScottTurow                                                   

PRIVATE by James Patterson     

For your chance to win this prize pack of books, all you have to do is answer one quick quetion.  Comments must be posted by Monday, May 3rd.  

 

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How do you teach your kids about home farming? Tell us and you could win Gather Pointsâ„¢ and TRISCUIT crackers!

Each week, Gather will  be posting a new Home Farming discussion and leave it open for one week to make sure you get a chance to share your best tips.  Gather will randomly draw one member who participates to receive 250 Gather Points™ and a sample of TRISCUIT crackers.

This week’s topic is: How do you teach your kids about home farming?

Please comment on the above post  no later than Monday, May 1st to be eligible.

 

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Reviewers Needed for McCormick Recipe Inspirations!

Gather and McCormick are giving away new Recipe Inspirations, a collection of top recipes from McCormick, complete with a collectible recipe card and six pre-measured spices and herbs.

We are providing Gather members with six varieties of McCormick Recipe Inspirations for the purpose of writing a review. In your reviews, indicate that you received a sample from Gather and tell us your thoughts on the product. Also include the following hyperlink that leads back to this post. McCormick Recipe Inspirations. Reviewers will be contacted with further information on posting.

To volunteer to become a product reviewer, all you have to do is answer one quick question  by April 30 and Gather will select 30 respondents:

 

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Win A Signed Copy of Milton Glaser's Artwork from the DVD, "To Inform and Delight!"

 

Gather is giving away 2 signed posters of Milton Glaser's artwork from the DVD, To Inform and Delight. That's right - a signed copy by Milton Glaser himself; a man considered to be the "Godfather of Graphic Design!"

For your chance to win a signed copy of Milton Glaser's DVD artwork, all you have to do is answer one quick question. Comments must be posted by Monday, May 3rd.

 

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Come Share Your Vacation Tips & You Could Win 125 Gather Points Each Day!

Gather has launched the Best Kept Secrets travel program in travel.gather.com sponsored by HomeAway and we need your help! Share your tips for vacationing and you could win Gather Points.

Each day we’ll give away 25 Gather Points to a commenter on each article-that’s 125 Gather Points a day! You can win more than once so if you have more tips to share then comment on all of them. This promotion will run until Friday, April 30th so comment by then to be eligible.

Note: You must comment in the article links below to be entered.

If you have a secret-share it! Just want to visit-tell us!

Visitors Guide To Los Angeles' Best Kept Secrets

Best Kept Secrets of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Best Kept Secrets of Naples, Florida

Best Kept Secrets of Vancouver, Canada: Visit the City of Charm and Beauty

Best Kept Secrets of Taos, New Mexico: An Artist's Inspiration

 

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Los Angeles, CA is HomeAway's Featured Property of the Week! Two Members Will Win Gather Points!

Each week, we’ll be posting a new HomeAway Featured Property of the Week article with photos and information about the property.

Have you ever been to this week’s featured location? If so or even if you have not, simply comment and share your stories, tips and secrets on the above post link. Two members each week will be drawn to receive 50 Gather Points™ for doing so!

 

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Share Your Home Farming Photo Essays for the Chance to Win Gather Pointsâ„¢ and Prizes!

Share your personal progress in a home farming photo essay in the Home & Garden Channel for a chance to win Gather Pointsâ„¢ and Prizes!

Here’s how it works:

• Become a member of the Home & Garden Channel
• Post new photos of your personal garden every two (2) weeks to the group
• You can  submit photos  from today through Wednesday, June 23^rd
• Please tag your photos “homefarmingphotos”

Gather has constructed three levels of prizing you can win for participating! You can even win more than one prize. Here’s what we’ll be giving away and how:

• Weekly Prize: Gather will randomly select 2 members each week to receive 250 Gather Pointsâ„¢
• Monthly Prize: Gather will randomly draw one member per month to receive a Home Farming Prize Pack
• Grand Prize Winner: Gather will randomly choose one member to receive a $100 AMEX gift card to purchase more home farming supplies.

 

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 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!

 

 

 

 

 

Winners of 25 points for commenting on the following posts for April 26:

Visitors Guide To Los Angeles' Best Kept Secrets winner April H

Best Kept Secrets of Cape Cod, Massachusetts winner Janet H

Best Kept Secrets of Naples, Florida winner Nancy F

Best Kept Secrets of Vancouver, Canada: Visit the City of Charm and Beauty winner Amanda "middle of nowhere" C

Best Kept Secrets of Taos, New Mexico: An Artist's Inspiration winner Trish A

 

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 Winners of Sergio Mendes' New Album -"Bom Tempo!"

Janet "Jax" B.

Vicky K.

Dinghy S.

Sandre M.

Teresa W

 

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Winners of Live Chat - "Grow Fruit" Book 

1. Kim K.

2. sally g.

3. Ann W.

4. Debra C.

5. sharon g.

 

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Win A Free Book-"Get Rid Of The Performance Review" 

Tasha L 

 Renda B~surviving the storm by dancing in the rain

 

 

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WELCOME TO THE GATHER COMMUNITY

 

 

 

 

Do You want To Make More Points On Gather

 One of the questions members frequently ask the Support team is for tips on how to get more views to their content so they can earn more points. An easy way to do this is by checking to see what is being searched for on the major search engines and to pick a topic that interests you from the list of top searched trends to write about.

The Google trends list is updated very regularly throughout the day.  MaryAnne be publishing this list daily to the Earn More Points and SEO groups. Feel free to check out these posts for ideas. If you write about one of the items on the hot trends list, and use the keywords that are being searched on, your content will be one of the items returned in the search engines and you’ll draw more viewers to your content.

 

 

Tom Gerace, CEO and Founder of Gather has submitted some great posts to help you with your Gather experience:

 Amplifying Your Voice (or, If a tree falls in the forest, and only 1.3 million people hear it…)

Step 1: Find Something that You Love to Do

Step 2: Evaluate the Appeal of Your Topic

Step 3: Consider the Competition (and Learn from Them)

Step 4: Creating a Consistent Experience

Step 5: Using Gather Groups: Create, Curate or Both?

Step 6: Check the box, expand your reach

 

 

Are You New To Gather?

 Welcome! I think you will find the Gather community a great source of information on just about anything. There are groups for food, music, writing, frugal living, couponing and everything in between. The Welcome To Gather group is a great place to start. It is a place where you can meet other new member on the site as well as seasoned members. The Welcome To Gather group goal is to help you learn your way around Gather and let you find friends who share your interests. Welcome!

 

The Today on Gather post is posted each weekday to keep the community informed of all the happenings in the community.  You can find the post in the Today group as well as my profile page on gather.