Aliza Sherman

Aliza Sherman is considered a Web Pioneer who helped pave the way for women on the Web. She started the first woman-owned, full-service Internet company - Cybergrrl, Inc. - and the first hybrid online/offline women's networking organization - Webgrrls International - that at its peak had over 30,000 participants in over 100 cities around the world.

Newsweek magazine named her one of the Top 50 People Who Mattered Most on the Internet, one of 5 women on a list of 50. Aliza called Newsweek and bitched that women were underrepresented on the list even though she could name dozens of women doing significant things on the Web at that time. She is still pissed that the lists continue to underrepresent women's tremendous role in new media and technology.

Aliza consults companies and nonprofits about their Internet strategies - including Web 2.0, social media, microblogs, virtual worlds and podcasting - and assembles teams to produce results while staying true to mission. She develops multimedia content for Internet, print, video, and audio; builds online communities and social networks, and does business and organizes events in virtual worlds including Second Life.

And in her spare time, she is a pro-blogger, a mommy blogger (babyfruit.com), a freelance writer for web sites and magazines, the author of 7 books including "The Everything Blogging Book" and "Streetwise eCommerce," an international speaker, and a wife and mom of a 2-year-old living in Alaska.