Aliza Sherman
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Aliza Sherman (Uh-LEE-zuh; also Aliza Pilar Sherman and Aliza Sherman Risdahl) born December 19, 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a new media entrepreneur, author, women's issues activist, and international speaker.
Sherman received recognition for her role as an entrepreneur focused on women's issues, particularly women's role in the new media industry and their participation on the Internet.
She founded the first full-service Internet company owned by a woman - Cybergrrl, Inc. - and the first global women's new media networking organization - Webgrrls International, a hybrid of online and offline networking, education and mentoring for women interested in technology-related fields.
She also launched the first three general interest web sites for women - Cybergrrl.com, Webgrrls.com, and Femina.com - all predating other major women's web sites including the iVillage site iVillage.com and Women.com.
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[edit] Past work
Sherman was named by Newsweek magazine as one of the "Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet" in 1995, one of only five women on the list. She is credited with coining the term "Webgrrls" to refer to women with Web sites. ("Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World" by Carla Sinclair; Henry Holt, 1995).
She spent 1995 through 1999 speaking about the Internet for women at colleges and universities including Harvard Business School, Simmons College Graduate School of Management, Rutgers, New York University and Columbia University School of Business. She was also invited to speak internationally about issues pertaining to women and the Internet at events including Technology Conference for Women's NGOs, De Haag, Netherlands; Links Education Technology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden; 1999 Women Leaders Conference, Wellington, New Zealand and 1999 Women's Summit of the Americas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She was part of the American Association of University Women's Educational Foundation Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education exploring the technology gender gap in schools culminating in a report called Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age (2000).
She has been an advisor to nonprofit organizations for girls including GenAustin and numerous websites and women-owned Internet businesses including HipGuide and College Broadband.
[edit] Books
- "PowerTools for Women in Business: 10 Ways to Succeed in Life and Work" (Entrepreneur Press, 2001) ISBN 1-891984-32-2
- "Cybergrrl @ Work: Tips and Inspiration for the Professional You" (Penguin Putnam, 2001) ISBN 0-425-17656-8
- "Cybergrrl: A Woman's Guide to the World Wide Web" (Ballantine, 1998) ISBN 0-345-42382-8
[edit] Current work
She is an avid blogger with several blogs of her own including Babyfruit and Aliza Sherman Rants and Raves.
Her sixth book is "The Everything Blogging Book" (Adams Media, July 2006) - ISBN 1-59337-589-1.
[edit] Sources
"Considered by many to be a great leveler, herself, Sherman's development in 1995 of three Web sites -- Cybergrrl, Webgrrls and Femina -- today has been parlayed into a singularly visible career. Her professional persona is almost synonymous with the title of her first book, "Cybergrrl: A Woman's Guide to the World Wide Web" (1998, 272 pages, Ballentine Books)." "Aliza Sherman: Cybergrrl at the wheel" [1]
"Cybergrrl" author aims to get more women on the Web" [2]
"Aliza Sherman as `Cybergrrl' propels women and girls into cyberspace" [3]
