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Congratulations, Jared.

AwayFind is a great product that has certainly helped me be away and found the way that feels right for me.

Here's to big days on launch day +1 and beyond.

As usual, Nick, you deliver great information and perspective ahead of the curve. Thanks!

Great update, Nick! Thanks!

Great post, Nick. Completely agreed that we should all be making sure we pay attention to the Boomers in our work. I think our stereotypes and tendencies as bloggers, website runners, etc are to assume that anyone over the age of 40 is set in their ways. Obviously it's completely untrue.

Sites like Eons - the Facebook for Boomers (www.eons.com) - are exploding in membership and as you obviously saw Facebook itself is growing tremendously in the over-50 crowd. There was a great article written recently (can't find it at the moment) about how many Boomers with adult children were getting on Facebook first to stay connected to their kids (like my mother for instance), but then started finding other virtues to being part of such an online network as they found other friends...and of course Scrabulous.

At Idealist we hired someone last year to focus entirely on people in a mid-career stage of life and in retirement and it has paid off tremendously. As you said, these folks are not retiring. Instead many are taking on what we and others are calling "encore careers" (a term coined by Mark Friedman in his book "Encore"). One of the great organizations we've been working with on these ideas has been Civic Ventures out of San Francisco which has all kinds of great information about what the most active and innovative Boomers are up to these days. www.civicventures.org

Also, ironically enough, the American Society of Aging Conference is going on today and tomorrow here in DC (www.asaging.org) for anyone interested.