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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK/EWORLDWIRE/March 9, 2004—IDEA
OASIS, a not-for-profit association for the Online
Dating and Social Networking industries, will have
its inaugural meeting on July 15, 2004 at the
Internet Dating Conference in Nice, France.
IDEA OASIS is the Internet Dating Executive
Alliance/Online Association for Social Industry
Standards. It is for executives in both the online
dating and social networking industries.
The organization's mission will be to set ethical
standards for online dating and social networking
member sites. Such standards will include protection
of account privacy and membership verification.
The association will facilitate information exchange
between members, provide members access to its extensive
information repository, assist members in understanding
emerging technologies and their impacts, create
relationships for members with various third party
vendors and enable access to services and products
at discounted prices. We intend to change the economics
of the social networking business in a manner beneficial
to our members. We also intend to fully insure that
our members will have representation with lawmakers.
IDEA OASIS will also promote ethical social networking
and online dating management for both our members
as well as to the general community at large.
Member sites will be given a unique and numbered
IDEA OASIS insignia to place on their website to show
their clients they are in full support of the standards
and ethics that IDEA OASIS promotes. These standards
will increase the level of trust that members of the
public will have in our member sites.
That need for an Online Dating and Social Networking
industry association emerged as a topic at the first
Internet Dating Conference. IDEA OASIS is that discussion
becoming a reality. Acting members of the IDEA OASIS
Board of Directors that will inaugurate the first
meeting will be:
- Joe De Paolo, Vice President of Marketing, FriendFinder, Inc.
- Eric Straus, CEO, Cupid.com
- Jeff Titterton, Senior Vice President of Member Sales & Marketing, Planet Out Partners
- Robert Fisher, Principle, Great Expectations
- Michael Jones, CEO, Userplane
- Brad Hogg, CEO, Vintacom Media Group Inc.
- Morten Wagner, Director of Marketing, Dating.dk
- Marc Lesnick, President, Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. (Acting Chairman)
Also scheduled for the Nice 2004 event will be
the selection of an advisory board, tasked with
advising the Board of Directors on trends in
technology, demographic and social trends, industry
impacts, and other related issues.
More information on IDEA OASIS can be found at
http://www.ideaoasis.org.
More information on the Internet Dating Conference can be found
at
http://www.internetdatingconference.com
IDEA OASIS
410 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
PHONE. (212)751-0116
FAX. (212)223-4646
EMAIL: info@ideaoasis.org
http://www.ideaoasis.org
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