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Best Non-Google Search Tools for Accountants

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2.00 Credits

Member Price $89.00

Non-Member Price $119.00

Overview

The course explains why you need more than Google to search the Internet and highlights a rich constellation of alternative search engine applications. The session also explains how to set up your own customized online research management platform, and discusses dynamic search strategies (two-step, vertical and lateral searching) that can be used to gain an extra edge when using any search engine. Participants will walk away with scores of new knowledge sources and streams that will complement their use of Google and improve their online research power. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

  • Why Advanced Search Skills Are So Critical for Accountants
  • Why You Need More than Google to Search the Internet
  • GARP: Generally Accepted Research Principles
  • Alternatives to Google
  • Advisory Search
  • Social Search
  • Specialty search
  • Search Engine resources
  • What's Ahead in Search

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Practitioners who want to go beyond Google and explore alternative search platforms that can be used to diversify their online due diligence and sharpen their digital intelligence gathering.

Objectives

After attending this presentation you will be able to...

  • Identify at least 7 ways Google information needs to be interpreted to ensure the results are taken in their proper context
  • Use at least 4 general search engines that complement their use of Google
  • Recognize at least 5 cluster search engines that group information by topic and discover unexpected relationships between topics
  • Recall at least 4 privacy search engines that do not store your queries or track your steps on the Internet
  • Access at least 12 user-generated content search engines that index content-text, videos, images, reviews-created by people, rather than brands

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CPA Crossings.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Garrett Wasny

Garrett Wasny, MA, CMC, CITP/FIBP is a professional development consultant to accountants, attorneys, engineers and doctors worldwide and a former management consultant with Price Waterhouse. He advises high-skill knowledge workers how to thrive in the digital age and unleash their online potential using productivity, search, mobile and social technologies. He’s authored two books (Global Business Resources.com by McGraw-Hill in New York and How to Conquer the World by Government Institutes in Washington, DC), 20 e-books, and over 100 published articles on Internet strategy for dozens of leading business publications. He’s also delivered more than 1,000 webinars and seminars on Internet topics to hundreds of organizations in North America, Europe and Asia. He lives in Vancouver.

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Non-Member Price $119.00

Member Price $89.00

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