Meet Julie Spira

Julie Spira is known worldwide as a leading online dating expert.  She’s a sought-after media guest  with her expert dating and relationship advice. In 1994, while she was a technology executive, Julie created her first online dating profile and started helping singles on the dating scene. She is the author of the bestseller, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online and is writing her second book, The Rules of Netiquette: How to Mind Your Manners on the Web.

As a celebrity dating expert, Julie has been featured in and quoted on over 350 media outlets including:

ABC News, BBC, CBS News, CNET, CNN, Crains New York Business, Cosmo Radio, Cyberguy, E! Entertainment, Elle, Glamour, FOX News,  iVillage, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, NBC News, The New York Times, PC World, Psychology Today, Redbook, Sydney Morning Herald, WIRED, Woman’s Day, KTLA-TV, and WPIX-TV.

Julie’s articles and dating advice have appeared on relationship and online dating sites including Betty Confidential, Date Daily, eHarmony Advice, Galtime, Genconnect, iVillage, Jazzed, JDate, Match.com, MSN-Glo, She Knows, Yahoo! Shine, YourTango, and Zoosk. She writes about the marriage of love and technology on Huffington Post and is the LA Dating Advice Columnist on Examiner.com.

Julie Spira was named one of the Top 10 Columnists to follow on Twitter by YourTango, nominated for the Women Making a Difference Awards by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and was the recipient of the WOW Award by JBBBS – Los Angeles. Her dating advice site, Cyber-Dating Expert was voted as a finalist for best dating blog in the New York Times owned About.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards. Julie was listed as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Social Media” in Fast Company and the “Top 10 Most Influential People in Dating” on Klout.

As an early adopter of the Internet, Julie served as a top executive for several leading-edge Internet and communications companies. She started her career as the first female radio show host and voice-over announcer at WAAL in Binghamton, New York.  Julie’s digital career started when she was the youngest female executive at RKO Radio Networks, the country’s first digitally-delivered satellite radio network. Julie has remained on the leading edge of technology, and as an executive at InterPacket Networks, she was the first to provide high speed Internet via Satellite to Third World and emerging countries such as Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.

Julie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Television-Radio from the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. She is currently writing the screenplay adaptation of The Perils of Cyber-Dating and speaks frequently at social media conferences worldwide, while providing private dating coaching clients the tools they need to be successful in finding love in the digital age. Julie believes in giving back to the community and she sits on the board of several non-profit organizations in Los Angeles.

Visit her at CyberDatingExpert.com where you can sign up for the Weekly Flirt, receive dating advice, and share your online dating stories.

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