Who says older adults don’t know anything about blogs?

Welcome to the blogsite of Generations Incorporated. We are a leading intergenerational literacy organization in Boston, MA, mobilizing older adults (ages 55+) to serve as mentors and literacy tutors to children who are struggling to read at grade level.

For 15 years we have united older adults and youth in service to strengthen individuals and communities. This year marks our first venture into blogging, and we hope that it becomes a space for connecting older adults with mentoring resources, providing insight into our literacy and mentoring programs, and giving a better look at what’s going on in each of our 19 partner schools and after-school sites.

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"Blog" is derived from the ancient "web log" meaning an online journal. According to Wikipedia, the blogging phenomena began slowly in 1991 and in the late nineties rapidly gained in popularity: the blogging site, Xanga, launched in 1996, had only 100 diaries by 1997, but over 20 million as of December 2005. Well, sign me up! Because who says older adults don't know anything about blogging?