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The Boomer Generation is online BIG TIME. But can they keep up with the technology? Better yet, can they succeed in this highly competitive world of the online community?

If you are Baby Boomer somewhere in the midlife of your years on the planet, you’ve already lived through some pretty major technological advances. Remember 33 LPs? (They are actually coming back as highly prized collector’s items.) Remember the 8-track? Cassettes?…Boom Boxes? (They’re really big now, as well.)

ipods, iPhones, iMacs, Blackberries, Strawberries, Blueberries?—blogging, tweeting— they are just the next variation on what we already have experienced.

So can Boomers do well in this world of hi speed internet? Absolutely. You just have to decide where and how, and in which direction to put your focus. Wisdom and discernment are called for. You can’t grab hold and join every band wagon that comes down the pike. But you can succeed, and do it well, if you find your niche and really work it.

In the last few months the editors of midlifejourney.com have encountered a number of very successful Baby Boomers who are making second or third careers online by blogging, offering membership sites, creating affiliate sites or even joining online sites where they can do very well playing poker.

Here are a few of the successful boomers we have been following:

Jeff Herring who is a master and teacher of internet article marketing.

Stephen Beck who teaches online courses in webinars and membership sites.

Cathy Perkins, the WordPress Wizard.

Dotsie Bregel, founder of BoomerWomenSpeak.com and the National Association of Baby Boomer Women.

There are dozens of other Boomers doing well online. During the next week we will be reviewing the Best of the Baby Boomer Blogs and exploring the question of what it takes to succeed online. Check back.