Small Business Boomers

Ziggs.com is a new social networking site that sends you an email when someone Googles you.  So, why should you care?  Well, I might want to know who is checking up on my, I guess.  Susan Gunelius comments on this new tool on her b5media site, BrandCurve.
I get 6 or so invitations to LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, every day, and I am too busy writing to check up on them.  I tried Twitter for a while but people either talked about stuff like the cat that caught a mouse or they were doing blatant advertising.
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As a blogger on b5media, I’m very aware of social media.  And I’m wondering if other baby boomers are too.  I recently read a blog post about boomer women using social media to promote their businesses.  And I’m wondering, do a lot of baby boomers use social media?
It’s pretty overwhelming, even for someone like me who has been around the Internet since the days of Mosaic and Pine Mail (pre-GUI – really!).  Apparently, many baby boomers are going to social media sites like FaceBook and LinkedIn (41 percent of us) and streaming video sites like YouTube (61 percent of us).
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