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Friday, May 18, 2012

Life of Dad announces introduction of "The Life of Dad Show" podcasts

First four episodes discuss Life of Dad story, Congenital Heart Defects (CHD), "Dad-chelor Parties" & social networking

Los Angeles, CA, May 18, 2012 — Life of Dad, the first social network for fathers, announced today the introduction of "The Life of Dad Show", a series of podcasts hosted by Life of Dad founder, Tom Riles, and co-hosted by Art Eddy. Riles is an audience warm-up and comic professional known for his work in Hollywood, most notably on "The Ellen Degeneres Show." Eddy is a New Jersey-based writer, podcaster and stay-at-home Dad. "The show follows much of the same [...]

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Monday, April 30, 2012

In the age of large, multi-billion dollar social networks of Facebook, LinkedIn, smaller niche online community of Life of Dad continues to grow, thrive

First social network for fathers provides unique user content, blogs, videos, podcasts, Man Caves, charity; membership, website hits increase

Los Angeles, CA — When Ellen DeGeneres audience warm-up comic, Tom Riles, hears of the valuation for the upcoming initial public offering for Facebook, he can't help but to think about the success of his own social network. Unlike Facebook's estimated $100 billion price tag, success has not been measured in monetary figures for Riles' website, Life of Dad. Instead, it is viewed as the achievement of growing from a small blog to the first, and fastest growing, social network for [...]

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Monday, February 6, 2012

From the Heart - A Father’s Story

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week February 7-14, 2012

If you’ve ever met Tom Riles, the audience warm-up comic for the hit show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, then you know he is a bundle of energy. Upon discovery that his daughter would be born with a serious congenital heart defect (CHD) Riles could not simply sit around and do nothing. He turned to blogging to share his thoughts, feelings, and tales of woe, and later, his overwhelming happiness when her health began to improve. Turning 2 years old this month, Riles’ daughter [...]