About Us
Description
Boomster.com is an information and social network website for baby boomers who are looking toward their next ventures in life. The site is aimed at successful, educated, and experienced baby boomers, who have 20-30 more years of productive work experience, and are ready to make a transition to something meaningful and different in their lives.
This can be:
- Starting a new business or career
- Volunteering and not-for-profit work
- Consulting
- Getting training and education in a new field
- Exploring interests
Through articles, video and audio interviews, and links, Boomster provides information to baby boomers to help them formulate what they want to do next, learn how to do it, and provide support once they have landed in their new venture. Most importantly, the website provides a social network in which members can meet other like-minded people, with whom they are able to explore ideas, exchange advice, and form working relationships.
Features
On Boomster.com, members can:
- Meet people with whom they have interests in common or who have sought-after skills and experience.
- Find links to all kinds of resources, such as:
- Career counseling and coaching
- Volunteer organizations and positions
- Educational programs for new careers
- Advice on starting your own business
- Creating business plans
- Resume writing
- Start a group or join a group about a specific interest or topic.
- Read original articles on topics of interest to baby boomers, see video interviews with experts, and listen to baby boomers who have made a transition to their next careers.
Team
Gail Ross is a psychologist specializing in the research and evaluation of human development and personality. She received her Ph.D from the Development and Personality Program at Harvard University and is on the faculty at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She, herself, is a baby boomer who developed the concept for this enterprise through research and discussions with friends, colleagues and clients.
Steve Campus is the president of the Campus Group companies, a wholly owned subsidiary of IDNA a publicly held company. The Campus Group specializes in film and video production and is the owner and developer of the audience polling system marketed by the Audience Response Systems division. The interactive conferencing network division provides videoconferencing technology for both satellite and ISDN-based programs, uplinking, network coordination, and full meeting planning collateral activities. Mr. Campus was also the CEO of Voice-Express Corporation that employs researched and patented technology for voice chip applications.
David Bushnell is a marketing specialist. A pioneer in technology-based marketing programs, he has created high-impact, high-concept online promotions and marketing programs for such clients as E! Entertainment Television, ESPN, Major League Baseball, Polygram Records, the NBA, and 20th Century Fox.
Robert Russotti, a web-business consultant, has over 20 years experience in marketing, new business development and strategic planning with well known companies such as Sony, Olympus, MSC Industrial Direct, American National Standards Institute and others such as Devise Associates and Voltaix. He has published hundreds of news and feature articles, is a member of the standards committee for the Web Analytics Association and speaks at industry conferences about web analytics and online advertising.
Andres Galante, web designer, a graduate in Industrial Design from the University of Buenos Aires with graduate design courses at NYU, has designed and developed a social network website, campus.com. His clients have included: Hilton, Heineken, ESPN Brasil, and Nike.
Ellen Freudenheim, writer. Ms. Freudenheim, has written seven books, including the non-financial lifestyle guidebook, Looking Forward: An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement (Stewart Tabori & Chang, Inc., 2004), the popular booklet A Boomers Guide to Good Work: An Introduction to Jobs that Make a Difference (Met Life Foundation and Civic Ventures, 2005) and HealthSpeak, a public health dictionary (Facts on File, 1994). Other publications include her 2005 online column for Marketwatch; an award-winning guidebook to Brooklyn and a guidebook to Queens (St. Martin’s Press).
