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c2008 Allan M. Kleiman, Library Consultant(s)-on -Call Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Are You? Allan M. Kleiman Pennsylvania Library Association November 11, 2008

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c2008 Allan M. Kleiman, Library Consultant(s)-on-Call

Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Are You?

Allan M. KleimanPennsylvania Library AssociationNovember 11, 2008

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Thank You

Contribute to a “Green Conference”

PaLa Website Next Week Libraryolderadults.blogspot.com [email protected]

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites for Older

Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0!

Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites for Older

Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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Web 2.0, Web 2.0, Web 2.0

What’s Your Definition? What are Some Characteristics? What is Library 2.0? Today, Look at: What is (Senior) Web 2.0

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Words I Think About………………. Shared Content Enhanced User Participation Potential of the Web Rich User Experience Web Come to Me!

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Blogs Wiki Social Networking, like Facebook, MySpace LibraryThing Add: Technology Training Gaming What Else Can You Think Of?

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0

Background: Seniors and Web 2.0

Social Networking Sites for Older Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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America is Aging! Basic Doubling of Aging Population by

2030 Currently 35 Million Seniors Over 65 By 2030, 78 Million Seniors Over 65

The Baby Boomers Come of AGE!

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3 Generations of Older Adults 45-65 (Baby Boomers) 65-85 (Older Adults) 85-105 (Elderly)

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Pew Internet & American Life---- 35% (Up From 22%) of Seniors 65 and

Older use the Internet Translates Into 8 Million Seniors 70% of Age 50-64 Are Online 85% of Age 30-49 Are Online 90% of 18-29 Are Online

Seniors: 50% Women, 50% Men

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3 Percent of online seniors in the U.S. have created a blog

17% have read someone else’s blog

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The Second-annual “Evercare 100 @ 100 Survey,” sponsored by Evercare, polled 100 Americans turning 100 and older in 2007

1 in 7 had played Video Games 47% of online Games are

Downloaded by 55+ Population

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites

for Older Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Top Social Networking

Sites for Older Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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www.seniornet.com Founded by Mary Furlong Development of Senior Training Sites

around the US—to be international “Social” Learning Site

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Grandma‘s Doing Web 2.0! www.thirdage.com Founded by Mary Furlong (“First”

Social Networking (Learning) Site (1997)

Seniornet was Not-for-Profit—Thirdage is for Profit or a Commerical Site

Moves from “Learning” to Learning and Socializing

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Let the Competition Begin: More Friendly Versions of MySpace

and Facebook “Eons, Rezoom, Multiply, Maya’s

Mom, Boomj, and Boomertown. They look like Facebook — with wrinkles” NYT 9/12/07

“Old People are Sticky”

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Grandma‘s Doing Web 2.0! New Search Engine—It’s not crabby,

it’s www.cranky.com Outgrowth of Eons Taylor said in a written statement that

the company teamed up with online consumer research firm Compete to find the 5000 most popular Web sites among a group of 500,000 Web users aged 45 and older and rated each site in order to create Cranky.com

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What’s New— www.eldr.com, launching June 2007,

mission is to help baby boomers and their aging parents deal with the challenges and opportunities of aging by providing the most useful thought-provoking and trusted information available anywhere.

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites for Older

Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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Senior Blogs are a great way to meet people from throughout the world

It’s easy to share life experiences, wisdom and information through senior blogs

In some cases, senior blogs give the authors a bit of fame and recognition for their efforts

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Grandma‘s Doing Web 2.0! Blogs Senior Bloggers were interviewed by

AP and said that the benefits for them of blogging were:

Senior Blogs help older adults keep their minds sharp

Senior Blogs keep the authors up on current events

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The Ageless Project http://jenett.org/ageless/

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Grandma‘s Doing Web 2.0! The Ageless Project The Ageless Project is a website that lists blogs or websites of

people in order of their birth year.  There are a huge number of boomer blogs on the site and there are even 2 sites of people over 90.   To qualify, the sites are screened to make sure that they are personal sites that have no commercial content.  Below are the stats of the sites.

Born in the 1910s:     2    0.12%Born in the 1920s:    16    0.94%Born in the 1930s:    40    2.36%Born in the 1940s:    99    5.83%Born in the 1950s:   190   11.19%Born in the 1960s:   310   18.26%Born in the 1970s:   642   37.81%Born in the 1980s:   379   22.32%Born in the 1990s:    15    0.88%

Total Listings:     1698

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites for Older Adults Senior Blogs

Generations Online/Big Screen Live

Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites for Older

Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Conclusion(s)

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Why Wii Gaming in the Library for Seniors?

Mental Stimulation (Using the Brain) Eye/Hand Coordination Social Interaction Inter-Generational Activity Group/Lifelong Learning Exposure to New Technology

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Trace Steps – My Personal Experience Last June 2007, ALA Conference Internet Librarian, October 2007 First Gaming Day with Teens and

Seniors, November 2007

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How Did we do It? Used Teen Advisory Board Basic Training on how Older Adults

Learn Pretend Your Teaching Your Grandma Be Patient, Expect Questions, Keep

Your Cool! After Senior Done—Open Play

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First Session: 2 Play Stations Wii Bowling on Large Screen Big Brain Academy Second Session: Added Guitar Hero

Results: FANTASTIC!

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What Have “Wii” Found—

Great Social Interaction Helping Each Other Learn Great Relationships Between Teens

and Seniors Feeling of Accomplishment at

Learning New Technology

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Wii and Persons With Disabilities

Visually Impaired (Large Screen) Wheelchair Bound Used in Wiihabilitation, with

Persons who Have had a stroke, surgery, etc.

Interactive and Entertaining

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Wii and Persons With Disabilities

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What are Libraries Doing?

Receive an Average 2-3 Inquiries Per Week How to Set-up a Wii Event for Seniors Cost, Equipment, Staffing How to Train the Teenagers Funding for the Wii and Games Why do I Think They are not Getting

Seniors in?

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What are Libraries Doing? Wii on the Move!

Bowling, Golfing, Tennis Tournaments with Senior Groups, Other

Libraries Seniors are Playing With Grandchildren Library, Nursing Homes & Retirement

Centers State Libraries Giving Grants LSTA Funding in NYState

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Grandma’s Doing Web 2.0! Definition of Web 2.0 Background: Seniors and Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites for Older

Adults Senior Blogs Generations Online/Big Screen Live Gaming & Older Adults Consumer Health

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NIH Senior Health: nihseniorhealth.gov/toolkit/toolkit.html

Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online:A Toolkit for Trainers

Welcome to the Toolkit for Trainers, a resource developed by the National Institute on Aging. Use these free, easy-to-use training materials to help older adults find reliable, up-to-date online health information on their own. The training features two websites from the National Institutes of Health -- NIHSeniorHealth.gov and MedlinePlus.gov. Trainers can use the toolkit with beginning and intermediate students of the Web.

Here's how to proceed: Watch the introductory video to find out what the toolkit is all about. Browse the lesson plans and download those that fit your students' skill

levels, time limitations, and interests. Check out the training tools and download tips on setting up a senior-

friendly classroom, recruitment flyers, and more.

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Grandma‘s Doing Web 2.0! Conclusion

Web 2.0 & Grandma is Still is Still Growing Not Facebook with Wrinkles Entirely New Direction Learning, Social Interaction, Information Fun and Entertaining Provides Useful Information What’s Next? (Senior) Web 3.0, of Course!

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Conclusion

Adding Senior Blogs, written by Seniors Add Library 2.0 with Seniors in Mind,

such as Book Reviews Teach Classes on Blogging, Social

Networking Sites Introduce New and Innovative Classes,

like Second Life, Blogging, etc.

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Conclusion

Develop Your own Online Community Using a Blog Around a Community Issues That Effects Seniors

Introduce Genealogy Online Courses Introduce Consumer Health Online Invite Speakers from the Apple Store to

Introduce iPhone

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Finally, Most of All……………

Find Ways to Get Your Seniors Engaged Find Ways to Get Them Interested Find New Ideas to Introduce Find Opportunities to Volunteer and

Teach Finally….Yes, Finally, Make it Fun!

Entertaining! And Exciting!

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Thank You

Allan M. Kleiman, Chief Consultant Library Consultant(s)-on-Call

Libraryolderadults.blogspot.com [email protected] 732-738-5183