Today I’m giving a talk to the volunteers of SeniorNet (Wellington): Starting a blog. It’s to forewarn them about a short course I’m doing with SeniorNet on this topic soon. Starting a personal blog can bring creative and social rewards—both powerful benefits for older people in isolation. If you’re in Wellington and belong to SeniorNet, […]
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OK, the analysis of the Older Bloggers Survey is done and dusted. My two hypotheses have been confirmed. But what shall we do with this information? Ideas, strategies.
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The Older Bloggers Survey covered a lot of factors, but inevitably excluded others. So we asked one final question, and found that many participants saved their most important comments for last. Q. 22. Do you have any further comments about your experience as a blogger? We’re interested in anything you’d like to share on this topic. […]
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Our survey asked older bloggers whether their blogs reflected one of three theories of ageing, how important their blog was in their lives, and how they measured their blog’s success. To generalise and paraphrase, they replied “Bad question!” to the first, “Moderately important” to the second, and “I measure the success of my blog by […]
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Blog technology is a remarkable tool that is used in hundreds of different ways. It’s old by internet standards but brand new and unprecedented in the history of publishing. With a single, simple process, anybody of any age in any place, with unknown qualifications and few skills can: publish personally and independently publish instantly in […]
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