Remember "We are the World"? Well now we have "If I Were an Auditor".
CPAs, Accountants, and some of the top bloggers in the accounting world came together earlier this week on CPA Island for the filming of the first second life accounting music video.
The video featured a year-long project from the creator, Edith Orenstein - chief blogger for Financial Executives International who signed on The Singing CPA, Steve Zelin, to produce the music and then MACPA(Maryland Association of CPAs) to produce the Second Life set and choreography on CPA Island in the virtual world of Second Life.
Read Edith's post on FEI's blog and a link to the video
Read the story behind the video here
The cast list was like a who's who in accounting & finance including the following influential bloggers (many who experienced CPA Island and Second Life for the very first time).
- Dave Albrecht The Summa
- Colleen Cunningham Resources Global Blog
- Michelle Golden Golden Practices Blog
- Tom Hood The Biz Learning Blog
- Mark Jankowski Shapiro Negotiations Institute Blog
- Edith Orenstein Financial Executives International Blog
- Gail Perry AccountingWEB
- Tom Selling The Accounting Onion
- Bill Sheridan CPA Success
- Darla Sycamore IFRS News & Views
- Mark Jankowski Shapiro Negotiations Institute Blog
Other cast members included members of MACPA's Second Life team (yep, we actually have a team devoted to this): Dee Day, Marsha Draa, Mike Tobias, Megan Gratz, Andrew & Thomas Hood (Accounting student interns from Salisbury University). Steve Jackovitz from Resources Global was also part of the cast. He and Colleen joined Edith live at MACPA offices as they worked on final shooting scenes.
Check out the photos of the event here
For more information about MACPA's work in Second Life visit our blog:
See our other videos about CPAs and Second Life:
Panel of our SL instructors on CPA Island featured at AICPA Tech + Conference
XBRL International broadcast from CPA Island
MDBIZEXPO showing mixed reality in Second Life
CPAs in Second Life- video that debutted at Association Leadership in the Digital Age
I love the music video! What a riot - so fun and great job!
Posted by: Amy Smith | August 11, 2010 at 03:45 PM
I'm blown away that there's a cpa community on second life. Clear evidence that accountants are way more web savvy than they might get credit for!
Posted by: Jim Tourville | March 24, 2011 at 03:03 PM
Great video, so entertaining! Accountants need to be given more credit for not only their creativity but their ability to relate to their clients and potential clients.
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Posted by: טויוטה לנד קרוזר | September 23, 2011 at 02:40 PM
Great stuff. I can really relate to the CPA's second life.
Posted by: Accounting Business for Sale | December 24, 2011 at 12:40 PM