What are the best accounting blogs?

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A few notable accounting blogs

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Although I am no longer employed in the accounting industry, I spent a few years in it. Because my father is an accounting professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN., I remain on the periphery of the accounting universe.

I recently created a list of some of the best small business blogs, and one of the best-of business-blog lists I reviewed included at least one accounting blog (Re: The Auditors). I sent the link to my father, and he knew of it and also listed a few other accounting blogs he visits from time to time – and thus was born the idea to create this list.

The first section of resources below consists of articles and blog posts that list and comment upon favorite/top accounting blogs of the last year or two. For the most part, I limited my review to 2011.

The second section of resources are direct links to what appeared to be some of the better individual accounting blogs.

This list of top blogs in the accounting industry will be updated from time to time, so – if you are among the handful of accounting professionals who actually finds this list – you might want to bookmark it for future reference.

Lists of top accounting blogs/ Best lists of accounting blogs

  1. Accounting Blog List – Golden Practices Blog – This is the best list of accounting blogs I’ve seen yet
  2. The Best Accounting Blogs of 2010 – CPA Site Solutions
  3. 50 Best Blogs to Read When Getting Into Real Estate – Accounting Degree
  4. Five Accounting Blogs You Should Be Reading and Why – The Modern Accountant
  5. 50 Best Business Accounting Blogs – Accounting Degree Online
  6. Best Accounting Blogs of 2010 – Brumley’s Blog


Top accounting blogs, categorized (well, eventually…)

  • General accounting practices
  • Auditing blogs
  • Frauds, scams
  • Tax blogs
  • Related sites, blogs

General accounting blogs

  1. Alltop accounting blog – a huge accounting site/blog, possibly an accounting aggregator
  2. Golden Practices Blog: Practice-growth advice for professional accountants, lawyers, financial advisors, consultants – by Michelle Golden
  3. Empower Your Business: Accounting is Just the Beginning – by Nick Roberts – Good record-keeping and accounting are key to the proper management of any business, but they are only the first stages in running a successful business… A good accountant should be proactively providing his or her clients with the information they need to maximise their profits and reach their full potential – knowledge and information are empowering… With that in mind, my goal is to provide as much useful, relevant, practical and up-to-date information to business owners as I can, to enable them to grow and take control of their businesses. [ More ]
  4. The Potts Report
  5. The Small Business Blog – Cherry Bekaert & Holland CPAs & Consultants
  6. Social CPAs: Social Media Insights for the Accounting Profession -Technology for CPAs
  7. DeepSky Accounting blog – We readily admit that we are not a traditional CPA firm who just happened to have a bookkeeping service. In fact, we are very proud to say that we are a company designed to become a replacement for in-house accounting departments. Just get us the source documents and we’ll provide you with a set of meaningful numbers that you can actually use to grow your businesses…
  8. Life and Times of Accounting
  9. Beancounter Ramblings – Charlotte CPA firm, Bordeaux & Bordeaux, CPAs, PA, was established in 1996 with a strong background and emphasis on strategies for saving on taxes and the entrepreneurial spirit.
  10. Appletree Business Services – Steven A. Feinberg, CPA of Appletree Business Services, LLC has more than twenty five years experience in New Hampshire and Massachusetts small business taxes, accounting and financial issues. Steve has spent his career working in all aspects of accounting and business management, from his early experiences at Price Waterhouse Coopers to establishing and owning Appletree Business Services of Londonderry NH in 1988.
  11. CPA Success – CPAs are on the cutting edge of business strategy, professional services and staffing issues. CPA Success, a blog run by the Maryland Association of CPAs, tells those stories. Find out what makes CPAs leaders in the business world.

Frauds, scams, scandals

  1. The Fraud Files blog: Daily commentary on fraud, scams, scandals, and court cases – Tracy Coenen is a forensic accountant and fraud examiner in Chicago and Milwaukee who investigates white collar crimes, including cases of financial statement fraud, embezzlement, tax fraud, and insurance fraud. She is the author of Expert Fraud Investigation and Essentials of Corporate Fraud and more than 100 articles on fraud featured in industry publications. [
    More about The Fraud Files blog - Tracy Coenen ]

Tax blogs

  1. Don’t Mess With Taxes – by Kay Bell – Taxes. Sure you hate ‘em, but you’re stuck with ‘em. Either that, or you’re stuck in a federal jail cell. Texas journalist Kay Bell helps make your tax tasks less, well, taxing. Don’t Mess With Taxes has been named one of the Internet’s 10 best tax sites by Top 10 Sources; cited by Moneysmartz as one of the Web’s best tax information blogs; recognized as a Web Star of the Week by WebCPA; twice tapped as one of Austinist’s best Austin blogs (February and August 2006); and included in the Top 10 Tax Stories of 2005 by TaxProf, a listing that was subsequently reprinted in the respected tax journal Tax Analysts… But one blog is not enough for Kay. She also writes Bankrate.com’s Taxes Blog, a perfect complement to her journalistic contributions to the website… In 2009, her first solo book, “The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes” (FT Press) was published. It examines ways individuals can make the tax code work to their filing advantage, whatever their stage of life. [ More about Don’t Mess with Taxes – Kay Bell ]
  2. It’s Taxing
  3. Phil Hogan: Chartered Accountant – Mostly tax issues
  4. Taste of Taxes: Timely Tax and Accounting Information

Related sites, blogs

These sites turned out not to be accounting blogs, but were notable enough to list; includes general business, etc.

  1. The Leadership Notebook: Insight, Intelligence & Inspiration for Leadership and Change
  2. Business Pundit

Best accounting blog list started on Friday, December 16, 2011

The best blogs for small businesses

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Inc.com’s list of 19 must-read blogs

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There are more than 130 million blogs on the World Wide Web today, and 1.5 million more are created each week, according to the blog tracking service Technorati. It is unknown how many of these are tainted by shameless self-promotion, mindless ranting, and other nonsense — but you can bet the figure is extremely high. So Inc. scoured the Internet, tabbed through Twitter, and asked the smartest people we know to help us come up with a list of bloggers who, if you pay attention, can help reshape your perspective. Here’s what we found. (Source: 19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now – Inc.com

In late 2009, Inc.com scoured the Web and came up with a list of 19 of the smartest business bloggers whose advice just might help you run a better company.

Ethan Zuckerman
A senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center, he’s also the blogger with the best worldview.

Penelope Trunk
The Brazen Careerist is the voice of the new guard.

Guy Kawasaki – How to Change the World
The ubiquitous Garage Ventures founder is also the Web’s ultimate realist; Kawasaki, who also runs a Web start-up called Alltop, is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has written nine books, most recently The Reality Check.

Jason Fried – Signal vs. Noise
This Chicago software entrepreneur offers the most interesting rants and raves. Fried, whose Chicago-based company created the popular collaboration program Basecamp, distinguishes himself from most bloggers by being suspicious of buzzwords, hoopla, and trends that have yet to turn into sustainable businesses. For more on Fried, see The Way I Work.

Mark Cuban: Blog Maverick
The bigmouth you gotta love. How has Mark Cuban greeted the economic crisis? With the Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan, of course. Earlier this year, Cuban asked entrepreneurs to post business plans on his website. It resulted in more than 2,000 comments, and Cuban eventually invested in four companies. Although Cuban’s blog is marked by a sense of bluster, it can also be candid, smart, and inspiring.

Matt Mullenweg
The blogger’s blogger. Seven years ago, at age 18, Mullenweg started a blog for fun. He has blogged ever since, and along the way, he created one of the world’s largest blogging platforms.WordPress powers 14 million blogs, including many on this list.

Charlene Li – Altimeter Group
The wonk you gotta love. Li, whose Groundswell is a great primer on using social media to connect with your customers, is a former analyst for Forrester Research. That means she is comfortable with stats, buzzwords, and long papers on corporate strategy. But as the founder of her own consulting firm and a longtime blogger, she is also a practitioner, which means she knows not only what is supposed to work but also what actually does.

Howard Lindzon: Trends – Find them, ride them and get off! Stocks, ventures and civilization; the CEO of StockTwits is also the best antidote there is to CNBC.

Jason Calacanis
The guide for tough times. Calacanis was one of the first entrepreneurs to turn blog writing into a business. He co-founded Weblogs — the publisher of Engadget, Autoblog, and Joystiq — in 2003 and sold it to AOL for a reported $25 million in 2005. More recently, he has chronicled the travails of his search start-up, Mahalo, in a series of essays that he publishes in his e-mail newsletter and on his blog.

Tim Ferriss
Want to work less and accomplish more? This productivity guru can help. He parlayed his experience running a modest online sports-nutrition business into The 4-Hour Workweek, a wildly successful book about how not to work hard. The book made Ferriss a hero to productivity junkies for its radical prescriptions — it recommended ignoring most e-mails, for instance — but part of its appeal was how seriously its author takes fun. On his blog, Ferriss drops wisdom on how to overcome self-doubt, how to become a better power lifter, and how to make sure that your life of leisure will survive the collapse of the U.S. economy.

Rashmi Sinha
Thoughts about people, technology and running a company; the founder and CEO of SlideShare offers a view from the weeds. Sinha is a serial entrepreneur whose current company, SlideShare, allows people to share their PowerPointpresentations and other documents online. Her blog is worth reading as a chronicle of a company in the making and because, as a woman running a venture capital — backed technology start-up, Sinha writes from an unusual perspective.

Paul Graham
Y Combinator’s founder on the view from on high. “I tried blogging once,” says Graham, “but a blog post is too short and quick for me.” Instead, he spends weeks crafting long essays and posts them on his website. His writing — informed by experience helping to start more than 140 companies through his seed fund, Y Combinator — deals mostly with the ins and outs of getting started.

Seth Godin
The master of pithiness. One of the world’s most popular bloggers, Godin is a master of the thought-provoking one-liner, the grand pronouncement, and the deeply contemplative paragraph. His subject matter is online marketing, but he transcends the genre by writing like a human being — he frequently talks about love, trust, and happiness. Also, for a guy who knows a ton about search-engine optimization, he’s very funny.

Fred Wilson
A venture capitalist on the art of the deal. “The venture business used to be a club — a little mystical and not well understood,” says Wilson, who started blogging in 2003. Since then, he has led a vanguard of VC bloggers who have brought transparency to that rarefied world. He writes honestly about deal terms, rates of return, and disputes with founders.
I am a VC. I have been since 1986. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn’t the easiest place to build technology companies, but it’s getting better.

Tim O’Reilly
The founder of O’Reilly Media offers the best glimpse of the future. O’Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades. His company created the first commercial website, and it helped pioneer the ideas of open-source software, social media, and the do-it-yourself movement. One of the next big things as far as O’Reilly is concerned? Something called Gov 2.0

Michael Arrington
TechCrunch‘s founder offers the clearest view of the mood in Silicon Valley. TechCrunch is required reading in Silicon Valley, but Arrington’s posts are relevant to entrepreneurs everywhere. Since starting TechCrunch as a home-based hobby, he has grown it into a 20-person company that has spinoff websites in the United Kingdom, France, andJapan. Like any good blogger, Arrington loves a controversy and is most entertaining when he decides to pick a fight with the outside world.

Dave Winer: Scripting
An entrepreneur who is also the voice of experience. Winer is a software entrepreneur and creator of RSS, the technology that allows people to skim lots of blogs in a short amount of time. He also maintains one of the oldest and longest-running blogs. He started DaveNet, an e-mail newsletter, in 1994, and began his online journal,Scripting News, in 1997, years before blogs were called that.

Anonymous Banker
In the realm of business, the Web’s most shameless agitator. “There is a part of me that feels like a traitor,” writes the mystery blogger who has worked as business banker at large lenders for the past two decades. “[But] in addition to being a banker, I am also a citizen of the United States.” As the media and politicians have portrayed the recession as a problem confined to large financial institutions, Anonymous Banker has become a lonely (but loud) defender of small companies.

Craig Newmark
The founder of Craigslist consistently presents the most unconventional views about business and technology. Newmark, whose company publishes one of the largest websites in the world, has never seemed particularly interested in running his business or even in making money. But that’s exactly what makes him interesting. Today, Newmark spends much of his time answering customer service e-mails at Craigslist and the rest speaking and blogging about other ways in which social media can change the world.

Other top business blogs

Brian Solis
Defining the convergence of media and influence; Brian Solis is principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm. Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging media on business, marketing, publishing, and culture. His current book, Engage, is regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to build and measure success in the social web.

Ben Casnocha
A blog about entrepreneurship, books, current affairs, intellectual life

Drew’s Marketing Minute
Drew McLellan’s a 25+ year marketing agency veteran who lives for creating “a ha” moments for his clients, clients’ customers, peers and audiences across the land. Sadly, for his daughter, he attempts to do the same thing at home… Drew’s favorite tools for creating these moments are vivid story telling, Italian heritage inspired hand gestures and the occasional tipping of a sacred cow.

Neuromarketing: Where Brain Science and Marketing Meet
Neuromarketing is the place to talk about using brain science in Marketing and Sales. We cover both breaking news about relevant brain research as well as “big picture” topics like ethical dilemmas posed by cutting-edge technology… Neuromarketing is published and authored by Roger Dooley, president of Dooley Direct, LLC. Dooley is a consultant and entrepreneur who combines knowledge of emerging phenomena like neuromarketing and social networking with decades of hands-on marketing experience. He helps companies understand the implications of new technologies and techniques, and guides them in the implementation of practical strategies to adapt to them.

All Things Workplace – Steve Roesler

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur – Mike Michalowicz
“Never started a company before? Struggling with little or no cash? Have no experience, no baseline to judge your progress against? Thank God! You’ve got a shot at making this work.” So says Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, a business book that is so uniquely useful, so raw and entertaining, it reads like the brainchild of Steve Jobs and Chris Rock… Whether you’re just starting out or have been at this for years, Mike’s “get real” approach to business is a much needed swift kick in the pants. In this book, you’ll discover:

  1. Why a business plan is a total waste of your time
  2. Why fulfilling your own needs is the first and last order of business
  3. Which three sheets of paper you need to successfully launch, manage and grow your business
  4. How to get started in business with little or no money
  5. The one little change to make with your income statement that will make your profits grow fast
  6. How to find and exploit resources that no one else knows about
  7. How to stop procrastinating and take action NOW!

A Clear Eye – Tom Asacker: Marketplace Ideas that Open New Doors
Tom Asacker has been teaching and inspiring organizations and entrepreneurs for over 20 years. World-class brands including Procter & Gamble, UPS, and G.E. have called on Tom, a renowned speaker and strategic advisor to shake up their audience, fill them with ideas and charge them with inspiration.

David B. Wolfe’s Ageless Marketing – Internet Marketing Agency for the 50+ Markets

tripwire magazine
Web professionals have to master many skills and technologies to create the modern, effective web applications that clients demand these days. It can be hard to stay at the top in the web field – it’s a never-ending task! … If you’re a web designer or developer, welcome to tripwire magazine – a weblog that aims to offer you useful information, tools, tips and tutorials to make your life easier. Explore this site for articles about everything from fonts to Photoshop, CSS, jQuery, web design, graphics, typography, advertising, SEO and much much more.

Artbizblog – for the business of being an artist – Alyson B. Stanfield
I began consulting with artists informally 18 years ago as part of my position as a museum curator. When I left museums, my old artist-friends continued coming to me for help and advice. Everyone wanted an agent! …The neat thing is that almost everything I teach artists to do, I’m doing myself for my business. See? The art business isn’t so different from the rest of the world. We all need to know how to promote ourselves and our businesses—online and off. To that end, I keep up with marketing, business, and artworld goings-on. And I started this blog in 2004 so I could understand blogging an help my clients better understand WHY they needed a blog and WHAT to do with it.

DIYSEO Blog

Resources: The top business blogs, sites

Top 15 Most Popular Business Websites | December 2011 – ebiz MBA: eBusiness Knowledgebase

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/business-websites

10 Top Business Blogs and Why They Are Successful – Social Media Examiner

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/10-top-business-blogs-and-why-they-are-successful/

Top 20 Small Business Blogs and Entrepreneurship Websites – YFS Entrepreneur

http://yfsentrepreneur.com/2011/11/03/top-20-small-business-blogs-and-entrepreneurship-websites/

19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now – Inc.com

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/19-blogs-you-should-bookmark-right-now.html

Best Business Blogs 2011 – Strategist News

http://strategistnews.com/best-business-blogs.php

This is our third year publishing this ranking. The business blogs field is getting more competitive than ever! Seth Godin continues to dominate the business blogosphere, while Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble still rule… we will only include standalone blogs of individuals; we’ve excluded all companies, newspapers, brands and groups because we want to celebrate the individual writers – not corporations. We do not want to be influenced by business models or advertising to skew the results. We just want to rank the best writing, period.

Best SMB Marketing Blogs: The Definitive List of Small Business Marketing Blogs – DIYSEO

http://blog.diyseo.com/2011/03/best-small-business-marketing-blogs/

Financial blogs
The 25 Best Financial Blogs

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2057116_2057343_2057278,00.html

This list was started on Thursday, December 15, 2011

Critical thinking: Teaching critical thought to accounting, business students

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Critical thinking defined

According to studies, critical thinking is not typically picked up by most students on their own. Critical thinking is not an innate ability – and this indicates that critical thinking should be specifically taught to students. Unfortunately, the trend toward standardized testing has an overall tendency to undermine instructors’ ability to address critical thinking in the classroom – making critical thought an even more important subject than it would otherwise be.

Suggested resource: $20 handbook

Critical Thinking Handbook: Basic Theory and Instructional Structures – This handbook provides an outline of the most fundamental theory of critical thinking. In addition, the Critical Thinking Handbook provides ideas for incorporating the theory into the structure of the higher ed curriculum. Included is theory on the elements of reasoning, intellectual standards, intellectual traits, content as a mode of thinking, the affective dimension of thinking, along with structures for student self-assessment, grading policies, and general tactical/ structural recommendations. We consider the handbook to be essential for understanding basic critical thinking theory, as well as for developing a curriculum with critical thinking at its very foundation. (Source: Critical Thinking: Basic Theory and Instructional Structures Handbook)

Sample assignment from the Critical Thinking Handbook (above)

Directions: This assignment is designed to assess students’ critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills. Answers will be judged for clarity, relevance, coherence, logic, depth, consistency, and fairness. More specifically, readers will be asking the following questions:

  1. Is the question/ issue well stated? Is it clear and unbiased? Does the expression of the question do justice to the complexity of the matter at issue?
  2. Does the writer cite relevant evidence, experiences, and/or information essential to the issue?
  3. Does the writer clarify key concepts when necessary?
  4. Does the writer show a sensitivity to what he or she is assuming or taking for granted (insofar as those assumptions might reasonably questioned)?
  5. Does the writer develop a definite line of reasoning, explaining well the arrival at the conclusion(s)?
  6. Is the writer’s reasoning well-supported?
  7. Does the writer show a sensitivity to alternative points of view or lines of reasoning? Does the writer consider and respond to objections framed from other points of view?
  8. Does the writer show a sensitivity to the implications and consequences of the position taken?

Teaching critical thinking: The kinds of questions to ask and assign

The best and most practical advice for teaching critical thought is as follows.

In their research, Haynes and Bailey emphasized the importance of asking the right questions to stimulate students’ critical thinking skills. Other researchers also focused on integrating questioning techniques into class discussions to support an educational environment where students can demonstrate and practice critical thinking skills. Brown and Kelley’s book, Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, documented the premise that students’ critical thinking is best supported when instructors use critical questioning techniques to engage students actively in the learning process.

Sample questions from all these studies

  1. What do you think about this?
  2. Why do you think that?
  3. What is your knowledge based upon?
  4. What does it imply and presuppose?
  5. What explains it, connects to it, and/or leads from it?
  6. How are you viewing it?
  7. Should it be viewed differently?

These questions require students to evaluate the clarity and accuracy of their thinking as well as the depth and breadth of their thinking. Have they considered all the alternatives? Do they know why they think the way they do? Students need to determine whether the content they are using is relevant and if their thinking process is logical. By questioning their thought process, students can begin thinking about their thinking.

Critical thinking exercises for accounting and related areas

You could create an assignment similar to the one above, but in the area of accounting, finance, financial reporting, auditing, etc.

I believe the subject of auditing would be a very rich area for critical thinking exercises.

Definitions of critical thinking

Critical thinking has been described as:

  1. Reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do
  2. Thinking about thinking
  3. The intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
  4. The process of purposeful, self-regulatory judgment, which uses reasoned consideration to evidence, context, conceptualizations, methods, and criteria.
  5. Within the critical social theory philosophical frame, critical thinking is commonly understood to involve:
    • commitment to the social and political practice of participatory democracy,
    • willingness to imagine or remain open to considering alternative perspectives,
    • willingness to integrate new or revised perspectives into our ways of thinking and acting,
    • willingness to foster criticality in others

(Source: Wikipedia on critical thinking)

Resources: Teaching students to think critically

PDFs about critical thinking in higher education

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UberJournal – Campbell School of Business
UberJournal

The Campbell School of Business at Berry College is publishing the third issue of the Undergraduate Business and Economics Research Journal in April 2012. The goal of the journal is to become one of the foremost outlets nationally for the publication of high-quality undergraduate research in disciplines within business and economics, with original research from students across the nation.

The journal is student-run by Berry College undergraduates. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review, with student reviewers from Berry and other colleges. The submission deadline is Nov. 30, 2011. We have begun accepting submissions already, and we encourage early submissions. For further information regarding acceptable topics and submission guidelines, please visit our website www.uberjournal.net. Also attached to this email is a call for papers which can be distributed to interested students. There is no submission fee; however, we do ask that submitted manuscripts not have been published in another journal or be under submission elsewhere while we consider them for publication in the UBER Journal. Additionally, submissions must be authored by undergraduates only.

A free download of our first edition and additional information regarding the journal can be found on our website at http://www.uberjournal.net. We encourage you to make your students aware of this opportunity to publish their research, and we would love to hear from you as well.

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Accounting in a Future of Less

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(or) Kpartnerzarian Kupetzology Comes to Savannah

My father, a professor of accounting at Lipscomb University, will be traveling to Savannah, Georgia in a few days to attend the 2011 APLG/FSA annual meeting, which takes place at the Marriot Savannah Riverfront from Sunday, February 13 through Tuesday, February 15, 2011.

I’m a little bit envious of dear ol’ Dad; several of the subjects to be covered at the upcoming accounting seminar are technology oriented, including the Kupetz session. Allen Kupetz, author and recognized leader on the subject of technology and its impact on individuals and business, will be teaching a one credit-hour course called Accounting for the Future: the Impact of Technology on Professors and their Students.

Allen H. Kupetz is the president of Kpartnerz, Inc., an international management consulting firm and the Executive-in-Residence at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, a highly-ranked Florida MBA program (according to Forbes and BusinessWeek). He is a recognized thought leader on the present and future impact of technology on individuals and corporations. Allen is the author of numerous articles on the use of social media in the classroom and the book The Future of Less – What the Wireless, Paperless, and Cashless Revolutions Mean to You.

Allen Kupetz’s speaking engagements typically cover the most current thinking on these subjects:

  • A global view of cutting-edge wireless technology
  • Technology as a tool for innovation
  • Introduction to Web 2.0, blogs, social networking, and Twitter
  • Social Media Marketing – real-world successes
  • Using social media for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Wireless future
  • Paperless future
  • Cashless future

(Source: Page taken down)

I reviewed a copy of the PDF sent to the seminar attendees, and based solely on that, it’s probably going to be an interesting and practical course. Subjects like this – the application of technology in the university classroom – may have once been mere time-fillers, included only to round out boring, required professional seminars; however, considering the blinding speed of current technological evolution and its seemingly limitless applications, I would say this subject is about as pragmatic and useful as any other to the modern, savvy university professor.

After getting all pumped up about Mr. Kupetz’s credentials and his potential insights into cutting-edge technology in modern education, I realized that his participation is limited to a one-hour gig. Could this be right? Even so, it will be an hour well spent, IMHO; I look forward to hearing about it.

Resources – Accounting, Future of Less

Wednesday, February 02, 2011