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