Sock Puppets: How many fake profiles are you connected to on LinkedIn?

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Show Notes

• 01:25 – Why enjoy a nice relaxing Labor Day weekend, when you can go camping instead?
• 03:30 – Why are sock puppets writing accounting articles? 
• 05:23 -- Blake talks about how to suss out sock puppets on LinkedIn, and teaches us how to do a Google Image Search
• 08:35 -- Time to clean house on your LinkedIn profile? | LinkedIn
• 12:30 -- Something’s rotten in the state of accounting content | Leary Theory on Revue
• 13:13 -- According to a NY Times article, China is using LinkedIn for less altruistic purposes | New York Times  
• 14:06 -- Why do human work, when you can pretend to be a robot? | WSJ
• 16:45 -- Walmart one-ups UPS and sends their accounting jobs, some 600 of them, to India | Breitbart 
• 18:51 -- Get your Sage accounting advice Down Under -  Intacct opens in Australia | Accounting Today
• 20:04 -- The subscription economy grows again – Chargebee raise $14M in Series D round | Chargebee
• 20:30 -- AvidXchange is cozying up to banks with their acquisition of BankTEL | Verdict 
• 21:43 -- Going with the flow, Tesorio (think “Mint for Business”) raises $10M in a Series A round | TechCrunch
• 23:46 -- Intuit’s TSheets is losing the Race to Zero with increased user fees later this month | TSheets
• 26:32 -- Might be time to think outside the Box … | WSJ
• 29:18 -- Listeners – Are you using cloud storage, specifically Box, or Dropbox? Inquiring hosts want to know!  
• 30:57 --  Vanguard Active Funds Struggle to Beat the Market | Money
• 33:32 -- What to do when your cloud breaks | Journal of Accountancy
• 35:52 -- ABC – Always Backup your Cloud! Just because it’s in the cloud, doesn’t necessarily mean your data is backed up!  
• 36:40 -- Not even your teeth are safe from ransomware attacks! | Krebs on Security 
• 37:55 -- Is your cyber insurance making you vulnerable to ransomware attacks? | ProPublica
• 39:18 -- A deeper dive into the ransomware/insurance connection | ProPublica 
• 40:01 --  It’s not what you do, it’s why you do it | CPA Trendlines
• 43:43 -- Survey says: so long soft skills, bring on the tech! |  Accounting Today
• 45:51 -- News of the Weird: Liberty Tax, Sears Hometown, and Vitamin Shoppe make strange bedfellows! 
• 48:43 -- Sock-puppet-free, REAL awesome reviews! 
• 51:56 -- Blake and David are Boston-bound for Accountex 2019! 

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