Tom Hood leaped into the next generation when he started CPA Island, a virtual land in a 3-D world called Second Life. Hood has served as the executive director and CEO of the Maryland Society of CPAs since 1997 and is striving to connect members of the American Institute of CPAs through some of the latest technology including YouTube videos, MySpace, podcasts and blogs to attract the next generation of accountants who are interacting with those tools and to establish a sense of community among existing accountants. Hood spoke about his journey from the pre-Internet age to Second Life, where he appears in a purple suit as an avatar named Rocky Mad-daloni.
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