Taking on the System or QuickBooks 2007 For Dummies

Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era

Author: Markos Moulitsas Zuniga

As founder of one of the most influential political blogs, DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga establishes the fundamental laws that govern today's new era of digital activism.

The Sixties are over—and the rules of power have been transformed. In order to change the world one needs to know how to manipulate the media, not just march in the streets. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, otherwise known as "Kos," is today's symbol of digital activism, giving a voice to everyday people. In Taking on the System, Kos has taken a cue from his revolutionary predecessor's doctrine, Saul Alinksy's Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, and places this epic hand-book in today's digital era, empowering every American to make a difference in the 21st century.

As founder of the largest political blog in the nation, Kos knows how it's done, because he's done it with tremendous success. In Taking on the System, he shares practical guidelines on how grassroots movements can thrive in the age of global information, while referencing historical and present examples of the tragedy caused without those actions.

The walls between the people and the power—the so-called rabble and the so-called elite—are being torn down by technology, and a new army of amateurs are storming the barriers to effect political, cultural, and environmental transformation. Readers will come to understand how they too can change the world.

The Washington Post - Suki Casanave

Moulitsas's book is a call to join the fray, and it is peppered with examples of people who are managing, against the odds, to be heard.

Publishers Weekly

In this primer for activists in the digital age, Zúniga, founder of the influential lefty blog DailyKos, argues that if activists harness new technology such as blogs, podcasting and YouTube, they can "bypass the old-world gatekeepers to communicate to the masses" in order to bring about political change. Tidily organized into pithy directives, including mobilizing, reinventing the street protest and feeding the backlash, this informative and entertaining book-inspired by Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals-moves easily among the current campaign cycle, pop culture phenomena such as Stephen Colbert and the successes and failures of the progressive movement in America. Zúniga's pragmatic, inclusive tone takes the edge off his sometimes didactic insistence that "there's no reason anyone should whine or complain that they are being shut out of the system." It should be noted, however, that the book is targeted directly to other liberals and wastes no time with conciliatory measures toward the right. Anyone in his camp, however, will be rewarded by the read. (Sept.)

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Library Journal

Zúniga, popular political blogger (dailykos.com) and reluctant leader of the netroots-those technocratic raiders now seen as a catalyzing political-action force fomenting populist action-gives us a set of tools and strategies for finding and exposing cracks within the social political-media system. With deft narrative ability, he insightfully dissects the hows and whys of many blog-driven political upsets over the past three years, from the unfortunate circuslike atmosphere unfolding around Cindy Sheehan outside of President Bush's ranch in Texas to the senatorial upset of George Allen in Virginia. Zúniga unfolds the nature and extent of netroots persistence, which is indicative of a seemingly new digital citizenship in which those with access to blogs as platforms can potentially expose and open gates to the democratic process. Zúniga's latest is focused more on practical tools and techniques of political action than his earlier Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics (with Jerome Armstrong). This book will be in demand in libraries serving communities with a blogosphere readership.-Jim Hahn, Univ. of Illinois Lib., Urbana

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QuickBooks 2007 For Dummies

Author: Stephen L Nelson CPA MBA MS

Keep your small business finances in tip-top form

Manage your business accounting and financial management tasks—quickly and accurately

If you're like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. That's where this handy guide comes in. Written by a CPA, it quickly walks you through bookkeeping basics -- and shows how QuickBooks can put your accounts in order so you can spend less time with the books and more time on business.

Discover how to

• Build the perfect budget

• Prepare customer invoices and record sales

• Produce common financial statements

• Manage inventory

• Simplify tax return preparation

• Balance accounts

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

Part I: Quickly into QuickBooks.

Chapter 1: QuickBooks: The Heart of Your Business.

Chapter 2: Answering Mr. Wizard.

Chapter 3: Populating the QuickBooks Lists.

Part II: Daily Entry Tasks.

Chapter 4: Creating Invoices and Credit Memos.

Chapter 5: Reeling In the Dough.

Chapter 6: Paying the Bills.

Chapter 7: Inventory Magic.

Chapter 8: Keeping Your Checkbook.

Chapter 9: Paying with Plastic.

Part III: Stuff You Do from Time to Time.

Chapter 10: Printing Checks.

Chapter 11: Payroll.

Chapter 12: Building the Perfect Budget.

Chapter 13: Online with QuickBooks.

Part IV: Housekeeping Chores.

Chapter 14: The Balancing Act.

Chapter 15: Reporting on the State of Affairs.

Chapter 16: Job Estimating, Billing, and Tracking.

Chapter 17: File Management Tips.

Chapter 18: Fixed Assets and Vehicle Lists.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: (Almost) Ten Tips for Business Owners.

Chapter 20: Tips for Handling (Almost) Ten Tricky Situations.

Chapter 21: (Almost) Ten Secret Business Formulas.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Installing QuickBooks in Ten Easy Steps.

Appendix B: If Numbers Are Your Friends.

Appendix C: Sharing QuickBooks Files.

Index.