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Grandma Betty Fox:
Webmaven
and Public Speaker
 When Betty Fox of
Bayside, New York, found herself involuntarily "retired" from her job due
to the relocation of her employer, she turned to the Internet to stay active. With a WebTV
setup provided by her son, Marty, she made her first foray into cyberspace, searching for
a recipe for peach pie. She typed in "peaches" into a search engine, and pulled
up 85,870 pages -- everything from on-line porn to peach wholesalers. An attempt to search
for sites of interest to seniors, turned up some relevant sites along with thousands of
others way off the mark. So Betty Fox, a widow and grandmother, decided to do something to
tame the chaos of the Internet for seniors like herself.
With Marty’s help and her own
penchant for order, she launched her own site for people over 50. www.grandmabetty.com went on line in
September 1998 with some original material and hundreds of links to other sites (including
this one), precisely categorized: entertainment, government, health, investing, travel,
magazines, memorabilia, news and weather, to name a few. The site gets about 150 visitors
a day. You can email Betty by clicking on "Ask Grandma." About 30 people do
everyday. She will always answer, but she won’t give legal, medical or financial
advice. The site is exactly what Grandma Betty intended: "a starting point for
seniors who want to go on line." So the next time you need a recipe for pie, a movie
review, suggestions for how to spend the weekend or want to keep tabs on what the
Government’s Administration on Aging is doing for you, begin your surfing with www.grandmabetty.com. In
October, 2001, GrandmaBetty.com and OceansofHope.com,
a health site, joined forces to cope with the effects of terrorism. Betty Fox is a
nationally known speaker.
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