Archive for February, 2009
Baby Boomers on Twitter
Here is a special list of baby boomers – in response to our story, “Baby Boomers Jump into Twitter” – who are active on Twitter, one of today’s most popular online social media sites to stay in touch with friends, and for networking. We invite you to share additional names, and they will be added [...]
Baby Boomers Jump Into Twitter
As we reported recently on BoomerCafé, baby boomers are flocking to use the online social media site Twitter as much or more than any other age group. BoomerCafé co-founder David Henderson is active on Twitter (@davidhenderson), and provides some tips for boomers who want to get the most out of this online phenomenon. Get into a conversation [...]
Boomers Embrace Online Social Media
Who says today’s exciting and interactive online world is just for kids?! Baloney! Baby boomers are online with Twitter and Facebook and all the other online technology as much or more than younger generations, according to Forrester Research. That’s one reason President Obama is using online to communicate with Americans. Chances are we baby boomers [...]
A Magical Place called Český Krumlov
BoomerCafé co-founder and publisher David Henderson has travel in his blood. And writing. And photography! In combination, it makes for a worthy piece of guidance about where you can go if, like David, you have the opportunity to strike out and see the world. As David describes it, it’s a magical world to see. We [...]
No More Little Old Ladies!
Just because you’re hitting, say, 50, you’re not supposed to give up certain things just because you’re over that hump. Same for 60. In other words, don’t live by the inevitable and unstoppable progress of the calendar. Barbara Morris doesn’t, and she’s 80! She has written two books about staying young, not for her generation, [...]
Special Moments in Boomer History
One mile marker of Baby Boomer history is remembering exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, writes Paul Briand for The Washington Examiner. There are other seminal mile markers as well, and two of the bigger ones — the Beatles in America [...]
Only Skin Deep?
If we’re honest — and some are still coming to terms with that — we will admit that the fountain of youth doesn’t flow forever. Columnist Cindy LaFerle has decided to face the fact, and explains in this essay for BoomerCafé what it cost her. As a seasoned female journalist in her early fifties, I’ve [...]
Facebook: Favorite Among Boomers
Five years ago, a Harvard University student created a social networking website known as Facebook. It quickly grew in popularity among college students across the world. Today it claims to have 150 million users. Missouri public radio/KSMU’s Kristian Kriner reports on a new demographic getting into the Facebook craze: baby boomers. Tina Jarvis, or as [...]
Baby Boomers Hit by Sex Cancers
BBC News reports from London … The arrival of the “swinging 60s” may have heralded a rise in sexually-transmitted cancers, say researchers. Rates of anal, vulval and vaginal cancers rose for “baby boomers” born in the decades after the Second World War. The culprit is the human papillomavirus (HPV), acquired during sex, said the King’s [...]
