Each Friday, in honor of the #FollowFriday tradition on Twitter, we will be featuring one of our own Featured Users on the blog.

Today we hear from Aliza Sherman. Aliza is the original Cybergrrl, and by her own description, holds many other job titles as well. She is a web pioneer and a Twitter powerhouse, and can be found on Twitter as @alizasherman. She lives in the wilds of Alaska.

Tell us about yourself.

I’ve been called a Web pioneer for my early work on the Web in the 90s helping empower women via the Internet. I founded Cybergrrl, Inc., the first woman-owned, full-service Internet company and Webgrrls International, the first hybrid online/offline women’s organization. I call myself a writer or speaker or blogger or podcaster or consultant or wife or mom, depending on the day and moment. I’ve published 7 books and working on my 8th. I love being creative, and I love my work.

How (and when) did you first come to be on Twitter, and how has the experience evolved for you?

I first got onto Twitter around the first time I got into Second Life so that was March 2007. At first, I thought Twitter was ludicrous – who cared what everyone was doing and thinking and saying all the time? Then I dove into the Twitterstream and found my community, my kindred spirits. Twitter has totally changed the way I communicate, in mostly good ways, I think. Although I do sometimes dream in tweets!

Where are you located? What’s your favorite thing about where you live?

I’m based in Tok, Alaska at the crossroads of the Alaska Highway, about 90 miles from the Canadian border. I like the fact that during the summertime, my little girl can walk out our front door, cross a long green lawn, and go play in her sandbox without any of the usual dangers of living in other parts of the country. OK, there are unusual dangers like moose in the yard, but otherwise I feel she gets to be exposed to nature at a young age which is a really good thing.

What are you most excited about sharing with your followers?

I love sharing both my professional and my personal sides. On the professional side, I love sharing what I’m thinking about social media and reading about social media. Personally, I love sharing moments of my life in Alaska, my travels, my life in Tok, my adventures being a mom to a precocious 3 year old daughter and being married to a wildlife biologist.

What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not online?

Remind me again when I’m not online? Oh, yes, right, when I’m spending time with my family camping in our trailer in the summertime in Alaska. I’ve enjoyed learning to ride an ATV. I enjoy cooking for my family which is a big challenge for me because I seem to have recipe dyslexia so I mostly experiment in the kitchen. I love traveling. I love meeting people who I’ve met online (Twitter, Second Life) in person. I’m in a good place now. I just love my life.

Thank you so much, Aliza!