Happy Friday DINKS! This time last week many Personal Finance Bloggers gathered in Chicago for the 1st Annual Financial Blogger Conference. The Financial Conference was created and organized by Phil @ PT Money. It is a full day of expert panels, round tables, seminars, and discussions between Financial Bloggers, Financial Authors, Money Enthusiasts, and Financial Professionals. I am sure that the 1st Annual Financial Blogger Conference was a weekend full of helpful information, lots of fun, and good times that will forever become memories. Unfortunately I was unable to attend this year, but I will definitely try to be there next year.
Some Financial Bloggers attended the 1st Annual Financial Blogger Conference to meet and connect with other online Bloggers who have become their online friends, some Bloggers attended the Conference to learn about managing a successful Blog, and some other Bloggers went to Chicago to meet their money mentors such as JD Roth from Get Rich Slowly and Ramit Sethi, who is a best selling author.
I wish I could have attended the 1st Annual Financial Blogger Conference because I have always wanted to visit Chicago, but also because I would have really loved to connect with other Financial Bloggers. I would have loved to (finally) meet J. Money from Budgets Are Sexy in person. He has been my colleague, my friend, and my boss for almost two years…and he seems to be a lot of fun. I would really like to meet Amber from Blonde and Balanced because we are both young professional women who work in Finance, she is a CPA and I am a CFP. I have connected with Carrie Smith @AppleCSmith on Twitter and she seems like a great person, I would have loved to meet her. As you know I am Canadian and I would have loved to meet up with my fellow Canadian PF Bloggers Krystal from Give Me Back My Five Bucks and Young at Young and Thrifty. I hope that everyone had a great time in Chicago and I hope to see you all next year!
Check out what some Financial Bloggers had to say about FINCON11
- Amber @ Blonde and Balanced left her newly wed husband for the weekend and took a short flight to attend the Financial Blogger Conference. She discusses her goals for the conference in the post Heading to the Financial Blogger Conference. You can Follow her on Twitter @AmberBalanced
- Carrie @ Careful Cents talks about how attending a conference can help your career in the post 5 Ways Going to a Conference Can Really Pay Off. Follow Carrie on Twitter @Apple Smith
- MD @ The Financial Blogger discusses his business reasons for attending the Financial Blogger Conference in the post I’ll be Part of the Expert Tables at the Financial Blogger Conference and Nominations. He was nominated for 3 Plutus Awards, which are the Annual Financial Blogging Awards. The winners were announced at the Conference in Chicago.
In case you couldn’t attend the 1st Annual Financial Blogger Conference in Chicago check out the official website: http://FinancialbloggerConference.com
(Photo by ElvertBarnes)
Hey Kristina, it would have been great to meet you at the conference. I hope you are able to attend next year. Your blog was one of the first that I read when I got started, and I think you’re doing a wonderful job with it!
Thanks so much for mentioning my site. It would be great to meet you next year at the conference, hope we can both connect. I love reading your articles and find great inspiration in this blog. :)
Hopefully next year we will all meet. I vote for The Financial Blogger Conference to be in Philly…I have always wanted to go there. But since I love Pizza if it’s in Chicago again I will definitely try to make it.
I wish I could attend to. However my financial independence blog is about personal steps I am taken, rather than generate financial advices blog.
It it for people seeking financial independence, not generating income from the ones who are on this path. That is I why I did not attend. Looking forward to read feedback from the conference.
@ Financial Independence – From what I have read there were all types of financial people there, you don’t have to be giving advice. A lot of the time blogging is about our own personal path and experiences. Hopefully we can both make it next year!