Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Eighty Is the New Fifty
Daniel Gross
Newsweek
June 16, 2008
Overview: “Until recently, aging big-shot executives were happy to play golf, become ambassadors or just fade away.”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140455
Red Hat Society, CARP, Toastmasters and Lions: Top Groups for Semi-Retiring Boomers, Author Says
CNW
June 11, 2008
Overview: “‘Ten million Canadian boomers are starting a new lifestyle by re-balancing their time, their talents and their resources. Most will not retire, but will invent semi-retirement. They will transform the ‘me’ generation into the ‘we’ generation.’”
http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/June2008/11/c2644.html
One in Four Share Photos Online Monthly, One in Ten Send Greeting e-Cards
Marketing VOX
June 12, 2008
Overview: “Nearly one-quarter of US adults shared photos via a Web site in the last 30 days, while Baby Boomers made the most use of digital greeting cards, according to new data from Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI) - via MarketingCharts.”