The downturn of the economy has hit most of us hard. The gather community has been chatting a lot about the trials they have been going through just to pay the bills, keep food on the table and pay medical bills. Many have already lost their jobs and even more are very concerned that they may loose theirs any day.
Gather as a company is no different. Tom Gerace, founder and CEO has submitted a post to explain how the economy is affecting Gather as a whole. Sadly many of the staff at Gather has been let go. I really hate to hear this because Gather is my online world. You can read Tom's Post for yourself and I encourage you to do so: Gather Update.
With that being said I wanted to spotlight a few Upbeat posts, photos and videos today. I hope you enjoy them:
2. How Does My Garden Bloom? Come Take A Look
3. Peek-A-Boo
4. Yellow Iris.
5. Last Night I Dined Like A Queen---Come and See.
6. Spring flowers in the Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bellevue, Washington
7. What's your favorite springtime vegetable?
8. Recipe: Garlic Shrimp with Avocado Dip
DON'T FORGET OUR DATE ON WEDNESDAY
Join Us for a Desktaurant Date - Get Free Deli Creations from Oscar Mayer!
Beginning April 8th in The BreakRoom group will be having a weekly chat every Wednesday. Each chat will be from 12 PM EST - 3 PM EST. This way everyone can participate. Make sure to join the new group on April. Hope you can attend each of the chats.
Desktaurant Date Schedule:
- Wednesday April 8th - Sorry you missed this one. It was a Great Chat!
- Wednesday April 15th- Sorry, you missed this one. See you next week
- Wednesday April 22nd - Sorry you missed this one.
- Wednesday April 29th - Sorry You missed this one
- Wednesday May 6th
- Wednesday May 13th
- Wednesday May 20th
- Wednesday May 27th
Everyone is looking for cheaper ways to cook and eat without loosing flavor. The Incredible wants to know about your favorite incredible, edible egg recipes that cost less than $2.00 per serving.
Share your best affordable egg recipe and the first 100 members to enter will automatically receive 50 Gather PointsTM! Photos and videos are encouraged.
All recipes must be posted by Tuesday May 5 at 11:59 PM EST to be eligible.
We Need More Product Reviewers for Deli Creations from Oscar Mayer!
Gather is giving away more coupons for Deli Creations from Oscar Mayer to 75 members in exchange for reviews in The Breakroom group. If chosen, you will receive 2 coupons each to
redeem at your local grocery story and try at your office. Better yet, enjoy your Deli Creations from Oscar Mayer during our Desktaurant Date series. The dates are listed below.
Gather will choose the 75 members randomly based on their answer. Comments must be posted by May 5th to be considered.
Crystal Light Product Reviewers Needed for the Eight Glasses a Day Challenge
Gather is challenging each Gather member to drink EIGHT glasses of water for at least eight straight. This challenge will run from Monday May 25th through June 1st. There will be more upcoming announcements at the Delicious Change Group.
The challenge gets even better as Gather is giving away FREE Crystal Light and water bottle to use during this challenge to eight participants. Your comments must be made by Thursday May 7th.
Join Delicious Change for a chance to receive 1,000 Gather PointsTM!
Are you drinking as much water as you should on a daily basis? Join us in the group DeliciousChange.gather.com. Get tips on drinking more water, talk to others for support, and win prizes!
By joining the group, you could win Gather PointsTM. Gather will draw 10 members who join between now and May 11th to receive 100 Gather PointsTM each. Of them, one will be drawn to receive 1,000 Gather PointsTM!
Expand Your Voice, Find New Readers, Submit Your Content to be Featured on Divine Caroline!
Gather is excited to announce a new program aimed at sharing some of the best content on Gather with a handful of trusted partners. To start, Gather will team with Divine Caroline in a program that will feature great Gather content on their site. In return, you will see the best of Divine Caroline within Gather's Family and Health Essentials. We believe this "best of" content share is a win-win for members on both sites.
Only content submitted to the Divine Content group will be considered. New content will be selected regularly and we will do our best to inform members when their content is featured.
Enter the "Banish Your Boring Breakroom" Photo Contest and Win $500 and a Microwave!
Does your office breakroom scream for help? Do you want to just get away and eat rest somewhere else?
Gather is asking members to submit photos of their boring breakrooms for a chance to win $500 to spruce it up and make it a place where you want to eat and relax!
Prize Awarded Includes:
- $500 AMEX Gift Card to be used toward improving a boring breakroom
- 100 Deli Creations coupons
- One microwave
- $150 Spafinder Gift Card
Open submission period for this contest ends on May 11
T-Mobile Wants to Help You Honor Your Mom with a Gather Scrapbook and Win a $100 AMEX Gift Card!
Mother's Day will be here soon. Surprise your mother with a totally unique gift - and save money, too. With Gather's new groups format, you can create a beautiful online scrapbook just for her!
Gather wants to help you honor your mother too, so we're rewarding five members who make Mother's Day Scrapbooks with $100 AMEX gift cards to use on something special with their moms!
Note: All scrapbooks must be created by May 12th to be eligible.
Custom Headers for Your Mom Scrapbook Group - Get Yours and Win 500 Gather PointsTM!
In anticipation of Mother's Day on Sunday, May 11th, Gather has given you a fun way to celebrate either your own mom or yourself by creating your own Mother's Day Scrapbook!
To help make the scrapbooks easier for those who are not as design savvy as others (that would be me, believe me!), we've created 4 custom headers that you can choose for your group! Just email Stefanie Plum, Gather Partner Team with the custom group header you'd like and we'll upload it to your group!
Remember, five members who create scrapbook groups will receive $100 AMEX gift cards! We've also decided to give away 50 Gather PointsTM to the first 100 members who create their scrapbook and 500 Gather PointsTM randomly to five group creators!
There are lots of winners to announce today. If you are not on the list, don't get discouraged. You may be on the list tomorrow. Congratulations to all the winner!
Announcing the Winners of the April 29th Desktaurant Date!
Winners of the Book Of Weeds chat won a copy of The Book of Weeds and 250 Gather PointsTM. They are:
DiAnA D.
Princess Spanky Pants ~ The Real, Original, Heather T
Sandy M.
The winners of our National Poetry Month Book Giveaway have been drawn and are as follows:
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Have a great day!
Thanks for letting us know what is going on around Gather!!!!
Thanks for the update Connie.
You are welcome. I wanted to spotlight upbeat things today and your qualified. :)
I am glad I could help. Your photo essay was wonderful and it was very upbeat.
I pinged you twice.
And congrats to the winners...
Connie thanks for keeping us in the know.
I just found your sight here and will be back to visit!
You are very welcome. She was such a cute child. :)
I'll head over to look at some of the posts probably tomorrow, still got some more catching up to do.
Just enter the contests that I have listed in the Today on Gather posts.