Amazing ‘failures’
“If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived” – best motivational video ever (hat tip Mark McReynolds via one of his contacts) – what a great closing statement: “Life = Risk”.
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Reserve your name at social media sites
(cross posted from ulvog.wordpress.com) As you ponder how to develop a social media strategy (or just try to figure out what is going on at Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter), reserve your names in those places.
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“Rework”
Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansonn – ISBM 978-0307463746
Great ideas and encouragement to break out of the box you are in. I wrote an Amazon review for this book on September 7. I’m reading again now (mid-November). It is that good. Lots of great ideas that apply for a local CPA firm. …
Great video explaining one perspective on why QE2 is a lousy idea
One semester of econ in 6 entertaining minutes. A few cute quips from the video in very loose paraphrase:
The Fed is engaged in quantitative easing because they believe there is danger of deflation. But aren’t food prices higher than a year ago? Yes. …
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“The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate”
The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate – Clara Shih – ISBN 978-0137085125
From the cover: “Whether you know it or not, Facebook and Twitter are transforming your business in profound and significant ways.
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PTIN registration
Don’t forget you must register with the IRS to get or renew your PTIN for 2011. Fee is $64.25. You probably received a letter recently giving you the web address to register: www.irs.gov/taxpros
I just registered. Took 25 minutes. Might want to have your CAF and EFIN (electonic filing number) handy. I noticed that my renewal will expire 11-30-11, which I suppose means I will have to renew next year before 11-30. So if such trivia matters, you might want to wait until after 12-1 to register.
Welcome to my new blog!
Greetings, and welcome to my new blog. I am still blogging at Nonprofit Update, found at www.ulvog.wordpress.com. Why the new site? I am talking to two very different audiences: the nonprofit community and CPAs working in the attestation area. Thus, I will split my writing between two different blogs.
Many of the previous posts of interest to CPAs have been brought into this blog. Some of these posts are deleted from the other blog and some are left there. In the future, posts related to the NPO world will be at www.ulvog.wordpress.com, comments specific to the CPA community will be here, and comments of interest to both will be cross-posted.
I hope this will be of help as you keep up to date with the torrent of changes in the attestation world. Enjoy!
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One easy way to monitor everything said about you on the internet
Do you know what is said about your business on the internet? Would you like to know a simple, FREE way to find out every time you are mentioned on the net? …
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Cooks Source claims to be victim of copyright infringement
For background on the Cooks Source magazine fiasco from last week, see my post here. For today’s update, see John Bredehoft’s post: The new Cooks Source tactic – blame Facebook, and praise the non-existent Western New England Food Bank. …
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Why does it matter to you that advertisers can use ads to identify gays?
Recent stories indicated that advertisers could identify gays through targeted advertising. If that is not a part of your life, why does it matter to you? Let me explain the process so you can see that the advertising technique should give us all pause. …
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Mandatory Peer Review deadline getting really close
For California CPAs who perform attestation work, deadline for mandatory peer review is just around the corner. …
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Easy-listening explanation of Quantitative Easing
Quantitative Easin’ is a new song in easy listening style that explains what the Fed is planning for the very near future. Fun explanation. Watch out for the depressing graphs though.
The singer, Curtis Threadneedle, is on facebook here.
Update: Fed announced the QE2 will be for $600,000,000,000 spread in $75B purchases per month of longer-term treasuries. Typo in title of this post corrected.
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Rapping Economists debate how to improve the economy? Rapping? On economics?
As news reports indicate the Fed plans a half trillion dollar quantitative easing, it is a good time to revisit the Hayek and Keynes debate. If you would like a rap explanation, check this out: “Fear the Boom and Bust”. Yes, Hayek presented in rap. …
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Rapping Economists debate how to improve the economy? Rapping? On economics? Read More »
Engage with the world as it is
Sometimes we see trends or patterns and think they are pretty dumb. Maybe even reach the level of stupid. When those dumb things are at a societal level, we need to realize that is the way the world is working and engage the world as it is, not as we think it ought to be. …
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