Richard Sherman, AKA
Mr. Modem, is an author, syndicated columnist and technological humorist.
President of
Get-the-Net, Inc., Sherman is the creator and publisher of the popular, online
computer and Internet help service (www.MrModem.com) and weekly subscription
newsletter Ask Mr. Modem. He is the online computer expert for GE
Capital’s Internet-based Center for Financial Learning and serves as a member of
its Advisory Board.
As a member of the
National Speakers Association, he has presented more than 500 “Bringing
Cyberspace Down to Earth” seminars and keynote addresses. He has appeared on
approximately 300 radio and TV talk shows, and hosts the Mr. Modem Minute segment produced by FOX-TV. In addition, he co-hosts the weekly
PC
Chat computer radio show.
A nationally
syndicated columnist, his Ask Mr. Modem! column appears in more than 90
publications throughout the U.S. and Canada. As publisher of the Ask Mr.
Modem weekly newsletter, his vast knowledge of the Internet and computers,
coupled with his unique sense of humor, help provide easy-to-understand,
non-technical, computer and Internet answers to questions received from readers
worldwide.
As "Mr. Modem,"
Sherman is a featured columnist in Smart Computing magazine and
the financial publication, Making Bread magazine. His
Mr.
Modem's Desktop column provides readers with geekspeak-free computer and
Internet tips, Web site profiles, virus and hoax alerts, news and related
information.
Among his eight books
is his latest, Ask Mr. Modem!, 2nd Edition, a collection of
answers to hundreds of frequently asked computer and Internet questions.
Mr.
Modem’s Internet Guide for Seniors was named Internet Book of the Year by
the Independent Publishers Association and heralded by ABC Radio personality
Paul Harvey as “the book that takes the gobbledygook out of computers.”
An Internet pioneer,
Sherman first ventured onto the Internet in 1988, and as “Mr. Modem,” has been
providing an online helping hand to millions of computer users worldwide ever
since.
