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A few weeks ago we started help­ing one of our part­ners set up a suc­cess­ful pres­ence on Face­book. His name is Burt Gold­man, The Amer­i­can Monk.

I’m guess­ing he’s prob­a­bly the ONLY 81 year old monk with more than 1,000 true friends on the social net­work, which brings me to my story.

Owen Thomas, a blog­ger at Val­ley­wag (the Sil­i­con Val­ley ver­sion of Perez Hilton), a tech gos­sip blog, pub­lished an amus­ing post about The Amer­i­can Monk which cracked us up over here at Mind­Val­ley Labs.

He did this after I quickly pitched him — and other tech blog­gers — our unique Face­book story. We’ll take his post as a com­pli­ment. You can read it here.

The funny thing is (besides all the exag­ger­a­tions of course), is that they’re imply­ing Burt Gold­man may not exist. After all, this is what you’d expect from an amus­ing tabloid-like blog. Well, I’ve got news for Val­ley­wag. He’s real, and here’s a video of him cel­e­brat­ing his 81st birth­day.

All in all, Owen’s post was a good read with amus­ing com­ments. Do check out Val­ley­wag if you’d like to keep up with tech gos­sip and be enter­tained. It’s fun.

PS — Thanks for the expo­sure Owen. We appre­ci­ate it. Already, just from your post, we have peo­ple approach­ing us for advice on social media mar­ket­ing.

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Having been invited for conferences co-organized by Harvard University and attended international ones, Amir is a blogaholic and a passionate observer of the blogosphere who's built a number of successful blogs. On top of that, he's obviously a full-time web junkie at MindValley where he focuses on blogging, SEO and social media marketing trends.

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