Brief overview of #AcctgChat, a Twitter chat for accountants, auditors and other financial professionals. Topics discussed cover a wide range, from news to regulations to ethics to enterprise and more. Included is a very brief overview of Twitter's use as a conversational medium.

1. The World of
Accounting
on Twitter:
What Is
#AcctgChat?
AcctgChat.com - @AcctgChat

2. What’s #AcctgChat?
It’s a Twitter chat for accountants, auditors and other
financial professionals from around the world.
AcctgChat.com - @AcctgChat

3. What Do You Talk
About?
A wide range of topics from news pertinent to the
accounting industry to professional ethics to
technology to the future of the profession and more.
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4. Why Twitter?
Twitter provides a unique mode of ambient intimacy in
real-time, enabling people from all over the world to
express themselves, exchange knowledge, share
experiences and find the latest developments around
the world.
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5. Who Can Join?
You
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6. How Do I Participate?
There are several ways...
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7. Hashtag: #AcctgChat
Hashtags (keywords prepended with a “#”) demarcate
tweets into searchable metadata - in the case of Twitter
conversations, they signify a rallying point for
participants.
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8. Search Twitter
Search Twitter (Search.Twitter.com) for #AcctgChat to
view a real-time chronological order of tweets
demarcated as Accounting Chat.
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9. Twitter Clients
Following a Twitter chat can very difficult to follow
since regular tweets and tweets marked with a hashtag
can be difficult to segregate real-time.
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10. TweetChat
Third-party applications enhance the value of Twitter.
TweetChat (TweetChat.com) is an example of one such
client. It displays only the tweets bearing the hashtag
you wish it to display, thus focusing your attention.
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11. Other Applications
TweetDeck - Seesmic Desktop - Twazzup
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12. 8:30 am EST
(12:30 pm UTC)
Saturdays
AcctgChat.com
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13. Follow
@AcctgChat
The World’s First Accounting Chat on Twitter
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14. #AcctgChat
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15. Questions?
Follow and reply to @AcctgChat
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