THE WOODLANDS, TX, February 10, 2010
/24-7PressRelease/ -- The User-Friendly Phone Book, LLC has updated its GoLocal247 network of 32 hyperlocal business directory sites in 8 states to enable visitors to interact with the site using their Facebook account and share media between the two sites.
Besides a visitor using their Facebook account to login and interact with a GoLocal247 site, users can let their virtual network of friends learn more about their favorite local business services and providers. Facebook Connect users can perform 20 additional tasks on the site that can be shared across both social networks. Some of the tasks include posting business reviews, rating a business, recommending a business, notify friends about an event they plan to attend, and alert friends to changes made on their online social networking profile.
"This feature makes it easier for registered members of the sites to share their favorite local businesses with their friends and the world across multiple sites at one time. For the small business owner, this creates additional and invaluable Internet exposure they would not otherwise get," said Mary Beth Brendza, VP, Operations at The User-Friendly Phone Book and GoLocal247.com.
Facebook Connect allows Facebook members to easily transport their virtual identity and online network of friends from one site to the next without having to create a unique identity on each site a user visits. Facebook's 2008 press release announcing the Facebook Connect feature says users who opt to use their Facebook login on third-party sites benefit from trusted authentication, dynamic privacy features and the ability to quickly share actions on partner sites with their network of friends on Facebook.
About GoLocal247.com
The GoLocal247 network is one of the fastest growing community-focused website companies in the country with Web sites in parts of California, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas. The company took the hyper-local approach by building community portals with a robust Yellow Page business directory. The first site launched in June 2008 and is now comprised of 32 local sites in eight states.
The heart of GoLocal247 is a robust Yellow Page business directory. Users can locate thousands of in-depth profiles on local businesses, rate and review them, and utilize money-savings coupons. They also can browse and post free classified ads, view and add events to the community calendar, and catch up on the latest news, entertainment and sports happening in the community and around the world.
Golocal247 is the internet division of The User-Friendly Phone Book, a portfolio company of VS&A Communications Partners III, LP -- the private equity affiliate of media industry merchant bank Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Learn more about GoLocal247.com at http://www.golocal247.com. For more information about The User-Friendly Phone Book, visit http://www.ufpb.net.
For more information about becoming an affiliate or advertising, contact Andrea Mooney at (877) 235-0708.
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