Single Edition on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show

Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert

Listen to Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show, where Sherri Langburt, founder of SingleEdition.com shared her mission of creating a lifestyle site to help singles in many areas of their lives.

Sherri, herself, is an online dating success story. After 10 years of online dating, she met her husband on JDate.

Single Edition provides dating and relationship advice from experts, along with suggestions for traveling solo, as well as health and beauty advice.

Find out Sherri’s secrets on why her online dating profile led to her marriage and hear her inspiration for singles looking for love online.

Listen to the program where you will hear more about dating, love and romance in a Web 2.0 World.

iDate 2010 Update – The Internet Dating Conference

Ravit Abelman, Omnidate and Julie Spira, Cyber-Dating Expert at iDate

Twice a year the online dating industry gathers in the U.S. to discuss the latest trends in Internet dating. The conference, called iDate, was held last week in Beverly Hills at the SLS Hotel concurrently with the Social Networking Conference. The event started with a 3 hour presentation by Google followed by the evening party at the Stone Rose Lounge hosted by Elitemate.

This year I was a speaker and presenter on Web 2.0 Dating: Using Social Media to Create Brand Loyalty.

I spoke about Twitter marriage proposals and celebrity breakups and how Facebook has become the third largest country in the world. Social media is successfully keeping users engaged and informed with meaningful updates, dating advice, and well-deserved bragging rights of their success stories.

One of the examples of dating 2.0 I spoke about was, social dating site Zoosk. Zoosk has done an excellent job in creating brand loyalty through social media. When they reached their 1 millionth “fan” on Facebook, they celebrated by creating a video called What is a Milion to thank those who now like their page. They posted it on the Zoosk blog, on their Facebook page where over 200 fans commented and over 600 said they liked it.  They posted their video on their YouTube channel for Zoosk TV, where they have over 4500 views for this one celebratory video.

Other examples I presented included online dating newcomer, Brainiac Dating. Their Facebook page features profiles and photos of singles looking for love online. Several online dating sites use social media to engage their fans. eHarmony‘s Facebook page gives advice to daters. A sample update of theirs is, “Picnics make great casual dates, especially in the summer. What are some good picnic ideas?” Lavalife has a contest on their page where you can vote for the Top 10 singles. Match.com congratulates their success couple of the week, and JDate include their success stories on their pages.

I provided a list of online dating sites on Twitter. Sample tweets from online dating sites included eHarmony_Jack: “Are you in love or are you infatuated?”  Match “How do you break up with someone you met online? 25% of Happen readers said on the telephone.” OkCupid: “Speaking of faced and attractiveness..has the recession made you more beautiful?”

iDate 2010 - The Final Debate at the Internet Dating Conference

I participated in the conference highlight, The Final Debate, along with Elitemate’s CEO Victor Daniel, Mark Brooks from Online Personals Watch, Karinna Kittles-Karsten from Sacred Love, Tai Lopez from Niche Enterprises, Violet Lim from Lunch Actually, and Frederick Vallaeys from Google adwords.

Mobile dating was clearly a hot topic at the conference. Thank you to Marc Lesnick, head of the Internet Dating Conference and Mark Brooks from Courtland Brooks for the opportunity to speak at this well-respected event about Dating 2.0 and Social Media.

The next two Internet Dating Conference events will be held in Paris, France on September 15-17, 2010 and in Miami, Florida on January 19-21, 2011. If you missed my presentation and would like to hear more, contact me at CyberDatingExpert.com/contact or Social Media and More.

JDate on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show

Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert

Listen to Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show, where my featured guest was Greg Liberman, President and Chief Operating Officer of Spark Networks, Inc.

Spark owns and operates over 30 online dating sites including JDate.com.

JDate is the largest Jewish community and online dating site on the web with members in over 100 countries worldwide.

In this program we talked about JDate’s features including:

• JMAG – Where you can find the Chanukah Gift Guide
• JDate Events – With over 600 events including the Shmoozapalooza and Matza Ball on December 24, 2009
• JDateTV – Webisodes featuring real people
• Do We Click – Hear about how one woman’s rejection resulted in a marriage proposal

Greg shared some of his favorite JDate success stories on the show, including this romantic video from Adam and Nell created on the night before their wedding.

Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show Featuring JDate

Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert

Join Cyber-Dating Expert Julie Spira on Saturday, December 19, 2009 as she welcomes Greg Liberman, President and Chief Operating Officer of Spark Networks, Inc. to Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show.

On the last day of Chanukah, we are featuring the number one online dating community for Jewish singles, JDate.com. JDate was founded in 1997 and currently has over 650,000 members worldwide. With more than 21,000 success stories just last year, JDate has been building the Jewish community for over a decade.

Call in at 646-929-0012 at 2PM/Eastern Time, 1PM/Central Time, 11am/Pacific Time with your questions and to learn more about the online dating site, JDate.

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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Haleh and Itai

Cyber Love Story of the Week

Haleh originally joined JDate because she wanted to try and meet a nice Jewish guy. While she was not a super-religious, she knew that Judaism was important to her. She knew that one day when she wanted to have children, she wanted to share the culture with a family. In 2006, Haleh was dating, but not meeting Jewish men. She thought if she signed up for the online dating site, JDate,  she might meet a Jewish guy.

Haleh was on JDate for only a few months, when she contacted someone with the screen name “NJGuy” in a simple flirt that said, “There is an opening in the sweetheart department, please send resume.” What she didn’t know then, was that Itai was a day or two away from ending his subscription after months of trying to connect with someone. Timing is everything because he immediately responded to her flirt.

Haleh had no idea that she would meet the man that she would spend her life with.

In early December 2008, Itai asked  Haleh to be his wife and  she said “YES!”  The two were married in October, 2009.

Congratulations to Haleh and Itai, our Cyber Love Story of the Week. Sometimes it pays off to pay attention to those casual flirts.

For consideration in the Cyber Love Story of the Week, send your submissions to CyberDatingExpert.com

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The Ball 2008 – 16 Cities, 1 Big Night

December 24th will be a big night for Jewish singles in the cyber-dating world. While some online daters stay home and put out cookies and milk for Santa, every year for the past 12 years, JDate has hosted a fabulous party for the others on Christmas Eve. This year, The Ball 2008, in conjunction with letmypeoplego.com will be the largest Jewish singles event in the nation. The parties will be held in 16 major cities including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, New Jersey, New York City, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington DC. Dress up in style and meet other members of JDate as you dance the night away.

If you are in Boston, you can attend their annual JBall in one of two locations depending on your age. If you live in Philadelphia, they are holding their 10th annual TO LIFE party at Cuba Libre. In Los Angeles, their famous 15th annual Schmooze-A-Palooza will be held at the House of Blues on Sunset Strip.

For tickets to these events, go to www.jdate.com/events and find a party in a city near you. Go ahead and find that special someone who’s profile you have hotlisted and ask them to dance!