Enhance Your Practice with MPAN Community

Accounting Technology,  December, 2005  

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In his 1993 book, The Virtual Community, Howard Rheingold anticipated, well before the proliferation of the World Wide Web, a mediated version of reality that's rapidly become familiar to us: interconnected computer networks linking people anywhere into public discussions for purposes of edification, communication, and collaboration. Central to the empowerment of individual knowledge workers, online communities today provide us with access to one another-wherever we may be-and the means to develop alliances of shared interests for mutual benefit.

Many in the accounting profession already participate in a wide variety of online communities, ranging from electronic mailing lists to message boards of professional associations. A new and unusually compelling online space for the accounting industry is growing around the Microsoft Professional Accountants' Network (MPAN), a community designed expressly to help public accountants grow their practice by supporting the critical role they play in helping small businesses meet their ...