Tom Gerace

Gather's Founder and CEO

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The Basics

Location: Boston, MA
Hometown:

Pittsburgh, PA
Gender:

male
Birthday:

December 21
Relationship Status:

single
Children:

I don't have children

Profile updated: Apr 17, 2008
Last signed in: May 11, 2008
Member since: Aug 31, 2005

Friends

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Samuel Gerace, Sr.	Tim T.	Bill D.
Mr. Mac Mr. Mac	David Woodrow	Julie Doumont
Dave Sandborg	Jennifer Hodge, Member Experience	Tyler Hoffman

Groups

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Nature Pictures	!!! The Green Train Team !!!	Unofficial Gatherholics
The Novelist Lounge	Free Thinking	Barack Obama for President
Music Corps	indie.gather.com	Wanderlust

Tom thinks he has the best Mom in the world.

Spotlight

Talk to Me: What Do We Value?

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Good afternoon fellow Gatherers! Thanks for joining me today. I am excited to have a different kind of conversation with you this afternoon. This week, and in the next few weeks to come, I want . . . more

Tom's Feed

Tom thinks he has the best Mom in the world. May 11, 2008 4:01PM EDT

Tom is content, for a moment, to lay beneath branches and wonder what words the birds sing. May 11, 2008 2:33PM EDT

Tom was pinged by David C. May 09, 2008 3:07PM EDT

Tom pinged David C. May 09, 2008 11:39AM EDT

Tom pinged Rose Sopko, Team Gather May 09, 2008 11:37AM EDT

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About Me

Describe Yourself:

I love the first sip of a Diet Coke. I am curious to a fault. I dig deep into people, ideas, songs, politics, film, art...things I don't understand make me a little crazy. I live life like I am pretty young, but have an old soul somehow. I think a lot. I change topics mid-stream.
On Gather, I'm Looking For ...:

"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."

- Mark Twain

I guess I have gone digging for that treasure. I am looking for people that want to dig with me.

Interests

Favorite Music, Artists, Genres:

Matt and Kim, Tokyo Police Club, Simian Mobile Disco, Brendan James, Yael Naim, Yo-Yo Ma, The Decemberists, Snow Patrol, Ben Folds Five, Sigur Ros, Eve 6, Anna Nalick, Mika, Elvis Perkins, Matt Pond PA, Joshua Radin, Cloud Cult, Death Cab for Cutie, Fischerspooner, Regina Spektor, The Postal Service, Belle & Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, Rusted Root, Guster, Enya, The Go! Team, The Killers, Fountains of Wayne, The Kinks, The Cranberries, Madonna
Favorite Books, Writers, Genres:

If On A Winter's Night a Traveler, A Separate Peace, The Master and Margarita, Ender's Game, Two Boys at Swim, Don Quixote, Red Mars, China Mountain Zhang, Tunnel in the Sky, Hyperion, The World of Normal Boys, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Separate Peace, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Italo Calvino, Mikhail Bulgakov, Kim Stanley Robinson, Orson Scott Card, Mark Twain, Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Movies, Actors, Genres:

Across the Universe, Casablanca, City of God, The Queen, My Dinner With Andre, Being John Malkovich , Garden State, Amelie, Snatch, Fight Club, Adaptation, Boys Don't Cry, Chocolat, The Godfather, L.I.E., In This World, Star Wars, The Outsiders, Dead Poets Society, Cinema Paradiso, Finding Neverland, I Heart Huckabees, Tootsie, Fargo, Fried Green Tomatos, Life is Beautiful, Gosford Park, A Home at the End of the World, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Me and You and Everyone We Know, On Golden Pond, Pulp Fiction, Fried Green Tomatos, The Usual Suspects, Snatch
Favorite TV Shows, Actors:

Battlestar Galactica, Alias, Boston Legal, The Daily Show, Bill Maher, The West Wing, Family Guy, Veronica Mars, Simpsons
Interests and Activities:

travel, vizlas, home remodeling, sky diving, diving, swimming, working out
Wish List:

Heath Company's Electronics LearningLab
Myers Briggs:

ENTJ

Affiliations

Employers:

Gather, National Leisure Group, Be Free, Harvard Business School
Colleges:

Harvard College

Major:

Social Studies
High Schools:

Bethel Park High School
Other Affiliations:

Only those that won't have me as a member
Websites:

www.gather.com, tom.gather.com, improve.gather.com

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David C., May 9, 2008, 11:56AM EDT

Sorry I was confused which week you were away. The 19th is fine, as is the June thing. I need to check which weekends I am going to get there early enough on a Friday night with traffic and all. So 5/19 is a go, and lets pencil in 6/20.

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Rose Sopko, Team Gather, May 7, 2008, 9:45AM EDT

Hey Tom, thanks for the congratulations! So is life after college as scary as I'm told?

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Basil A., May 1, 2008, 6:13PM EDT

Just saying hey, i miss you! You and Jason are in my thoughts everyday! I hope all is going amazingly!!!

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David C., Apr 30, 2008, 7:07PM EDT

A monday night, huh? Tuesday would be better, but you are a busy man. So 19th or 20th are good by me. But remember - you pick the place this time. I wish it would be at the Dbar gig - speedos at a bar sounds awesome.

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Kerry Dexter, Apr 22, 2008, 6:11PM EDT

Tom,
about getting back to learning guitar: the image you commented on is of Matt
Heaton, who lives in Boston -- and gives lessons... He plays in a duo with his wife Shannon, really good stuff. I've an interview with Shannon in one of my Voices columns from December if you'd like to learn more. and thanks for the comment.

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Laura Cushing, Apr 22, 2008, 5:49PM EDT

Hi Tom,

Sorry I missed the latest Gather chat - just wanted to drop in and say I like the G.A.T.H.E.R acronym. I think those are good values for everyone to remember.

--L

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Jo C., Apr 21, 2008, 6:22PM EDT

Thanks for actually answering some of my questions in your announcement about the upcoming chat. Being able to disable feed is a move that I think will help reduce security concerns for some Gather members while letting others use feed more effectively to promote Gather and network both inside and outside Gather to get more members on Gather. Also, members who want to promote their work can do so selectively.

As a professional writer, I like my "fun" chat on Gather to be just that but might want a more serious or informational article ( a book review) to go out on Google and get people to come back here. It is mutually beneficial.

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Marianne R., Apr 21, 2008, 7:57AM EDT

Morning Tom. I was wondering when Gather will address the current problems with this latest upgrade. The feed system is terrible and misses at least half of the articles and photos posted by my conntections. It has been a pain in the butt to have to go through 2-3 forms of site navigation in order to find missing content, when the feed should display it for me. I have posed this question several times and have yet to get an answer. I'd like to know when this issue will be fixed since it is ruining my Gather experience. Marianne

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Jim Manzi, Apr 19, 2008, 6:45PM EDT

This is very good..http://www.youtube.com/v/RyhIBXNfqMA&hl=en

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Kerry Dexter, Apr 19, 2008, 6:15AM EDT

Tom,
thanks for the information about social discovery. as someone who writes about non mainstream sorts of music (folk, Celtic, Americana) for a living, I've seen that process at work directly among friends and also through people who come to trust or at least be interested in my taste because of what they know of my writing. interesting to hear of the business evolution and applications of this.

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