about blogging clientsinternet podcasting presentations services social media social networks web 2.0 Aliza Sherman, Bio “It’s a man’s world out there in cyberspace - but not if Aliza Sherman has anything to say about it. Her mission: empower women and girls through technology.”
-- The Wall Street Journal
Aliza
Sherman is the Original Cybergrrl - an Internet thought leader, highly
sought-after online marketing expert and passionate evangelist for the
Internet, particularly as a valuable and useful tool for our personal
and professional lives. She is a motivational and inspirational speaker
who has spoken around the world about the Internet, social media,
virtual worlds entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment.Named by Newsweek as one of the “Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet,” Aliza Sherman is a Web pioneer, online marketing expert, published author, international speaker and regular contributor to national magazines and web sites. Pioneering Work Aliza founded the first woman-owned, full-service Internet company - Cybergrrl, Inc. - in the early days of the World Wide Web,. She also founded Webgrrls International, the first women’s Internet networking group that grew to over 100 chapters worldwide in its first year. She has been building online communities for women since the early 1990s. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her innovative work on the Internet including the prestigious Avon Spirit of Enterprise Award. In 1995, she built the first 3 websites for women (Cybergrrl.com, Webgrrls.com, Femina.com), preceding both Women.com and iVillage.com, and is considered the pioneer who helped pave the way on the Web and in the New Media industry for women. Today, she is at the forefront of Web 2.0 and keeping an eye toward Web 3.0. She currently consults companies and nonprofit organizations on their Social Media strategies, soup to nuts, social networks to blogs to microblogs to audio and video podcasting to widgets to virtual worlds and more. She is working on her 8th book which will explore the intersections of Web 2.0 tools with our Web 1.0 tools, our work and our lives. She has been profiled internationally as well as in U.S. publications such as PEOPLE, USA TODAY, WALL STREET JOURNAL, US NEWS and WORLD REPORT, TIME DIGITAL, and ELLE magazine. She has been featured on CBS News with Dan Rather, CBS “This Morning,” Fox “Good Day New York,” Lifetime TV’s “New Attitudes,” and has had frequent appearances as an Internet expert and book author on CNN, CNN-FN, MSNBC, and CNBC. Radio credits include NPR, CBS Radio, Newsweek Radio and numerous local radio talk shows and Internet radio shows. In 1999, she appeared on the cover of USA TODAY as part of a technology summit and was the only woman and the only small business owner on the panel of today’s technology leaders including Michael Dell of Dell Computers and the CEOs of Lucent Technologies, 3Com and Comcast. Aliza Sherman is the author of 7 books including: Streetwise Ecommerce (Adams Media, 2007) The Everything Blogging Book (Adams Media, 2006) PowerTools for Women in Business: 10 Ways to Succeed in Life and Work (Entrepreneur Press, 2001), Cybergrrl @ Work: Tips and Inspiration for the Professional You (Penguin Putnam/Berkeley Books, 2001) and Cybergrrl: A Woman’s Guide to the World Wide Web (Random House/Ballantine, 1998) among other books… Personal Aliza spent all of 2001 on an extended double booktour promoting her 2nd and 3rd books, traveling the country in an RV with her chihuahuas. Her travel diary can be read at RVGirl.com. She is married to a wonderful man, and they live in Alaska with their beautiful baby girl, a Black Lab & a little Chihuahua. Business Contacts: mediaegg AT GMAIL dot COM 307 - 631 - 8539 WY 907 - 244- 8681 AK Media pitches ONLY to alizapilar AT MSN dot COM |