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In the summer before tenth grade I hosted my first real party, the memory of which still evokes the impulse to hide behind the planks of my formerly mousy brown hair in an effort to become invisible. By a real party I’m not talking about the birthday parties I used to have as a younger kid, where I and my two best friends (one of whom I didn’t really like) were driven to the indoor roller...

What Happens When you Take the 'Social' out of Social Networking? What happens when the 'Social' gets left out of Social Networking?Well, the answer is P.O.'d people. This I know from experience as both the receiver and being flamed when I did it myself without being aware. There is an etiquette that is expected in networking. Often, I have experienced this etiquette and respect at 'live'...

Recently I discovered my daughter was connected to one of her teachers on Facebook. Mr. Knight is a very nice young man. In fact, we all attend the same church. When I inquired about the connection, my college daughter told me they connected after she graduated from high school because Mr. Knight said he didn't think it was appropriate to be involved in social networking with current students....

Grandma’s A Techie by Sunie Levin What’s this world coming to? I’m an 80-year-old techie now! Me! With nine grandkids. How could this possibly have happened? Well, truth of the matter is that perhaps I’m not really a techie, but I’m farther along than I’d ever dreamed--so far along that people actually call me for help. Between you and me, most of the...

The Growing Bolder Media Group received the prestigious Senior Vison Media Award for 2008, presented by the Florida Council on Aging. In just it’s first year online, GrowingBolder.com has presented a vision of the 50+ population unseen anywhere else. In less than a year, GrowingBolder.com has taken the lead in smashing the stereotypes of aging. They do it by documenting the new reality:...

Facebook = Business Growth = Law of Attraction I have had so many comments about my last blog post on Facebook and my interviews, that I thought I would share some of my own ‘quantum leaps’ with regard to my business. I was sharing some of my stories last week at one my networking meetings, and I was surprised that so many small business owners do not use Facebook because they are ‘not...