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(1888PressRelease) Digital LA’s Love Goes Digital panel to feature local dating sites and relationship experts in a pre-Valentine’s event in Los Angeles.

Julie Spira, bestselling author of “The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online” and a frequent media guest on the subject of online dating, will be a featured panelist on the first-ever Love Goes Digital Panel hosted by Digital LA on February 13, 2012.

Spira will be talking about how she successfully used social media strategies to help her online dating book become a bestseller. She will share how she engages with her followers and helps singles by creating their online dating profiles and coaching them on finding love on the Internet.

“For our pre-Valentine’s Day Digital LA – Loves Goes Digital panel, we want to celebrate by getting LA’s experts in online dating and love together, to share tips, trends, and success stories in building dating and love related blogs and businesses,” said Kevin Winston, Digital LA founder. “It’s the first time we know of that local dating and love experts have been gathered on a panel in Los Angeles.”

Spira is no newcomer to the digital space. She started her digital career in 1981 as the youngest female executive of RKO Radio Networks, the nation’s first digitally delivered satellite radio network. She late…………… continues on Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Last year, Nick Paumgarten wrote an interesting article for The New Yorker that detailed the rise of online dating and the effects it’s had on web culture. What struck me most were some of the eye-opening statistics he shared about the size and popularity of the industry, beginning with the fact that fee-based dating sites have become, collectively, a billion-dollar industry — that “one in six new marriages is the result of meetings on Internet dating site.” What’s more, online dating is now the third most common way for people to meet.

It’s clear that much of the early blush (read: stigma) around using online platforms to meet new people and pursue relationships has worn off. But anyone who’s spent any time on dating websites knows that plenty of friction still exists, whether it be in the awkwardness of online-to-offline interaction, the inherent dangers of meeting an eStranger, or the problem of having to rely on algorithms and science to find your perfect “match.” As much as dating sites strive to find a scientific method (or a more efficient way) by which to introduce us to the loves of our lives, many of them still feel impersonal and gimmicky, and, as Paumgarten points out in his article, it’s for this reason that online dating remains an isolating pursuit.

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