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Joel M. Ungar, CPA is a lifelong resident of the Detroit area and a graduate of The University of Michigan. He is a principal with Silberstein Ungar, PLLC, a Top 15 auditor of SEC public reporting companies. Joel writes observations on different matters and especially on working with and using LinkedIn. He thinks he has a sense of humor.

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Sep
10
I had a brainstorm last night. From it, I've made a new connection and a meeting at a conference I'm attending next week.
Sep
07
If you spend time on LinkedIn, you are bound to find some people whose profile's proclaim them to be a "LION." It took me a while, but along the way I learned that LION stands for LinkedIn Open Networker.
Sep
06
Yesterday I posted about a change in LinkedIn notifications on the website, and I mentioned that their blog said that updates were coming to the mobi
Sep
05
Just read the latest blog entry from LinkedIn called New: Get Notified on LinkedIn.
Aug
31
Corey Lord is the Chief Accounting Innovator at Lord & Associates in Saline, MI (near Ann Arbor).
Aug
28
Opened up Outlook this morning to an email from AICPA titled "Claim your personal email address Joel.Ungar@cpa.com; I'd paste it in but my skills are falling a little bit.Here is the text: Dear Joel,
Aug
27
As I'm writing this, I'm going to randomly (ok not truly) go to 10 LinkedIn connections profiles and copy their headlines (any names have been changed for privacy):
Aug
26
My daughter is heading off to her freshman year at The University of Michigan, so of course she needs her own computer. There are really only two choices: PC or Mac. PC is a wide open universe. Mac isn't.
Aug
22
It's back to school shopping season in metro Detroit. My wife and kids were doing their economic duty yesterday and, among other places, shopped at Sears.
Aug
19
The plane pulls back from the gate about 10 minutes late. It's a Delta 757, with the narrow aisle and 42 rows that takes forever to load, especially when the overhead bins fill up.

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