April 13, 2009 in Social Media Tags:

10 Social Media Savvy Tips for Baby Boomers

By Barbara Rozgonyi

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While these tips were written specifically for those ages 44-63 to appear on Toby Bloomberg’s Diva Marketing blog, there is something in here for everyone.

Toby asked each of her guests, Des Walsh, Carlos Hernandez and Barbara Rozgonyi [me!] to submit social media tips as a companion to our appearance on her BlogTalk Radio show, Diva Marketing Talks. Pick it up as a podcast or listen on your computer.

Social media tips for Baby Boomers

  1. Own your age by celebrating your accomplishments
  2. Promote your technology heritage
  3. Connect cross-generationally via alumni, networking and social groups
  4. Position yourself as a mentor for people starting out in your profession
  5. Talk about your collections, hobbies and interests
  6. Post flattering and current profile pictures that look like who you are today
  7. Be a leader people seek out for social media connections
  8. Start out with LinkedIn and develop your professional profile
  9. Go through your network and invite friends to connect online
  10. Recommend and refer others when you see someone looking for help
  11. What would you add?
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Thanks for the tips. Its not very easy to find blogs like yours. Really enjoyed reading and will certainly bookmark this post. Will also subscribe to feeds.

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Hi Barbara, Congrats on the podcast! What a great topic. It would be funny for us Boomers to have a designated day when we use our high school graduation pictures as our avatars! :) Brad Shorr's last blog post..Twitter - The One Stop Social Media Shop

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Always proofread and edit everything you write, including tweets, Facebook updates, and Linked In comments/postings. It is easy to think that "I have to post this *now*. Resist the temptation and *always* review and clean up your published work. And every tweet or update is a published sample of your work.

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Always proofread and edit everything you write, including tweets, Facebook updates, and Linked In comments/postings. It is easy to think that "I have to post this *now*. Resist the temp[tation and *always* review and clean up your published work. And every tweet or update is a published sample of your work.

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I also like reminiscing back to those times where Click Clacks ruled and cartoons were actually decent.

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