Digital GrandParent, Maryan Pelland’s alter-ego, was born of DemystifyingDigital.com, Maryan’s home on the Web for four years. Maryan Pelland is the web’s Digital Grandparent, steeped in every-day tech looked at from a baby boomer point-of-view for baby boomers. But we’re ok with any one else coming along with us to explore tech news. Digital Grandparent provides reviews of digital products, advice for those enjoying a digital lifestyle and blogs for tech-happy people. Read the expert’s eye-view from those baby boomers immersed in digital living – the digital grandparents — Maryan Pelland and Dan Pelland.
Maryan has written on tech topics for about a dozen print and Web publications since 1995. she’s covered all the major tech changes and has working relationships with major players like Apple, Nuance, Nintendo, the Discovery Channel, Microsoft, Adobe, and others. They keep her tuned in to what’s coming up and what’s happening. Maryan’s writing has won Editor’s choice awards and has been reprinted all over the world.
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Technorati Profile
Digital Grandparent. An apt description for a baby boomer who came to technology late and took to it like a shopaholic to a Macy’s sale. For five years, Maryan Pelland has built her personal brand, “Digital Grandparent” helped by terrific Web sites like DemystifyingDigital,which originally christened her Digital Grandparent. Pelland is a professional ghostwriter with a hand into freelance writing/blogging on topics that excite her.
Ten years ago, Maryan Pelland was non-digital. She could login to chatrooms and send email. Now, this digital grandparent takes PCs apart and rebuilds them. She knows Windows inside and out, speaks Linux, and gives guru advice when asked. It was a long road, but she enjoys the heck out of her topics and editors know her as a savvy, thorough, accurate writer.
