FinCon: Finance, Blogging, and New Media
A peer conference for financial bloggers. Learn to blog and discover the latest trends in the financial world.
When I was thinking about producing the conference guide/agenda this year, I wanted to improve upon the basic stapled-together handout that everyone tosses in the recycling. I wanted something that added more value to FinCon attendees and even was a resource for people in the community who weren’t attending FinCon. I’m pleased to introduce you [...]
The excitement for #FinCon12 is building. Bloggers are taking to their blogs to share tips and inside info about attending: Jen from Master the Art of Saving shares her proposed budget for spending on #FinCon12. Carrie from Careful Cents, inspired by her recent trip to #FinCon11, shares 8 ways to attend a business conference for [...]
This is republished with permission from the WiseBread 1000 team and Elizabeth Lang. #FinCon12 is on track to be one of the most affordable blogging conferences in the world. Conference fee, flight, hotel, and transportation all add up to less than the conference fee alone for many conferences. That said, there are still ways to [...]
Here’s another video in our series of videos of talks from #FinCon11. In this video, J.D. Roth, #FinCon12 keynote speaker and creator of Get Rich Slowly, gives a great opening day talk entitled, “Why We Write”. In this 20 minute talk, J.D. shares his vision for the goals we should have with our blogs and [...]
For the State of the Financial Blogosphere talk at #FinCon12, Greg Go from Wise Bread wants to hear (and share and celebrate) your stories from the blogging trenches. What has happened to you personally or professionally in the past year? Share your milestones and stories (and pictures!) by emailing Greg at wise1000@wisebread.com with the subject [...]
Over the last couple of months, we have had 17 amazing submissions for Ignite talks at FinCon12. Sadly, though, we don’t have time for everyone to speak. That is where you come in. How to Vote The selection of “sparks” (Ignite lingo for a 5 minute talk) is a democratic process. We need you to [...]
GoBankingRates.com will be sponsoring an evening event again this year and they plan on using the event to announce the winners of a community-wide project, the PF Olympics, that you will want to be a part of. Here’s more… FinCon and GoBankingRates.com are teaming up to honor the best personal finance experts in the industry. [...]
If one wants to take over the world using unique talents and ideas, it helps to have one’s finances in order. So it’s no surprise that at this past weekend’s World Domination Summit (#WDS2012), many financial bloggers were in attendance and actually a big part of the program. The World Domination Summit is a three [...]
Editor’s note: In this blogger spotlight, Romeo Clayton, shares his latest community-wide project, the Wealth Number Challenge, aimed at encouraging action with retirement savings. If you are a financial blogger and have a community-wide project in the works, please contact me about sharing it here on the blog. Here’s Romeo… Last year at the first [...]
Who: Financial bloggers, financial professionals, columnist, authors, financial companies, new media types.
What: FinCon is a four day conference designed to bring together the best of the financial blogging community for networking and learning. Read more...
When: October 17-20, 2013
Where: Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch [Book for $119/night]
