What Is Happening Today On Gather - Tuesday May 4, 2010

Today I am going to spotlight photos in a new way.  I hope you enjoy this way of spotlight. You will have to click on the links to see what I am talking about. :)  Hope you enjoy them.  They are each unique in there own way.

 

1.  Very Colorful Photos

2.  These Will Put A Smile on Your Face

3. Just Dogs

4.  Variety and Beauty

5.  The Beauty Of Europe

6.  Vermont in September

7.  Natures Beauty

8.  It's All In The Color

9.  Look Up

10.  It Is All About The Water

 

 

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 A Gather Member's - Monthly BookShare Book Giveaway!!! SPRING 2010!

 

Gather member Love from Darlene! is giving away books for the month of May.  Some of these books are amazing. She has a post for each book with a review of the book.  For your chance to win, all you have to do is comment on the post of the book/books you would like to win.  To find the links to the books given in this contest, just click on the above link.

You will have to scroll down past the April list to see the May list.  Submit comments until midnight (12:00 a.m. EST), the last Day of May. 

 

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Win A Free Book- "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer

 

For your chance to win a copy of Stephenie Meyer's book, The Host, all you have to do is answer a quick question.

Comments must be posted by Thursday, May 6th. Gather will randomly select 3 winners.

 

 

 

 

 

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What are your best tips for spicing up your weeknight menu? Come share & win Gather Points!

With the McCormick Recipe Inspirations Flavor Challenge, you can learn how to make meals easy and inspiring – any night of the week. We want to hear all about your best tips for spicing up your menu each night.

There will be two discussion guides where you can share your best tips, secrets and stories. Please leave your comments in the comments field of each discussion article. Gather will randomly choose 10 members to receive 20 Gather Points!

Check out the post for this week’s discussion

Please comment no later than May 14.

 

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Quesadilla Casserole is McCormick’s Featured Product of the Week! Answer the Trivia Question and Win McCormick Recipe Inspirations!

The new McCormick Recipe Inspirations, a collection of top recipes from McCormick, complete with a collectible recipe card and six pre-measured spices and herbs that puts flavorful twists on traditional recipes that will impress everyone at your dinner table. Recipe Inspirations makes trying top recipes from McCormick fun and easy. Each includes pre-measured McCormick spices and herbs and a collectible recipe card. With just a few of your own fresh ingredients, you’ve got inspiration to make a memorable meal any night of the week.

This week the featured recipe inspiration is Quesadilla Casserole.

Add your answers to the question by May 5. Five winners will be selected at random to receive McCormick Recipe Inspirations!

 

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Friday Freebie: Win a $50 Eastern Mountain Sports Gift Card!

For this week's Friday Freebies, Gather is  giving away two (2) $50 Eastern Mountain Sports gift cards.

Each Friday, Gather will announce a new, great freebie that you could win just by sharing a thought on our weekly topic.  Check out the post by clicking on the above link to get all the details.

 You must comment by 12pm EST Tuesday, May 4th to be eligible

Gather will draw three members to win

 

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Maui, Hawaii is HomeAway's Featured Property of the Week! Two Members Will Win Gather Points!

 Wow!  This place looks amazing.  Looks like a great place to relax and leave your worries at home.  Have you ever been to this week’s featured location? If so or even if you have not, please comment on the main post and share your stories, tips and secrets. Two members each week will be drawn to receive 50 Gather Points™ for doing so!

 

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Win A Free CD- "Essential" by Carole King

 Gather is giving away 3 copies of Carole King's new album, The Essential. The dual CD set profiles Carole’s career as America’s best know singer and songwriter, with disc one devoted to her own recordings and disc two highlighting Carole’s best-known and most beloved 60’s compositions recorded by major pop artists.

For your chance to win a copy of Carole King's CD, The Essential, all you have to do is answer one quick question.

Comments must be posted by Friday, May 7th.

 

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What was your favorite family vacation? Tell us and you could win Gather Points!

 

With the Best Kept Secret Series happening now in the Travel Essential you can unlock all the best kept secrets for the destinations you’re heading to. And now we want to hear about your travel secrets too!

Gather will  have a series of travel discussion where we want to hear your best stories, tips and secrets. Please leave your comments in the comments field of each discussion article. Gather will randomly choose 10 members to receive 20 Gather Points!

Topic: What was your favorite family vacation?

Please comment no later than Wednesday, May 5th.

 

 

 

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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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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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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.