The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur

In 2000, Harry Wagter moved to Ontario from Alberta and like many out-of-work baby boomers, he had difficulty finding in job in spite of pundits telling us employers need to court older workers. “I was a dinosaur,” says Harry.
He began looking at purchasing a franchise. “I wanted to buy myself a job.”
Harry was interested in [...]

When I first started using Twitter I didn’t expect it to be an effective social media marketing tool. Imagine my surprise at the almost immediate impact on traffic to my blog. It jumped dramatically. Since I hadn’t changed any other aspect of my blog promotion - and hadn’t won significant attention from a blogging superstar [...]

The “Last Lecture” is a common tradition for retiring university professors. It’s their last chance to “impart wisdom” to their students and an opportunity to stray from the regular curriculum and talk about what they’ve learned about life.
On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch delivered his last lecture to a [...]

It’s that time again. Ann Harrison over at Contemporary Retirement Coaching has posted another edition of Blogging Boomers Carnival.
Ann Harrison is the owner of the Contemporary Retirement Company. She’s a Retirement OptionsTM coach, a pre-retirement trainer and the UK’s only 2young2retire certified facilitator. Her blog offers tons of resources to help people make the transition [...]

I was at a networking meeting this week and we began talking about our favourite podcasts. For the uninitiated, a podcast is an audio recording distributed over the internet. It’s like radio except you can download episodes, listen at your convenience, pause and re-listen at will.
For business people, business podcasts can be an invaluable learning [...]