Weekend Highlights, December 14, 2008

This week Moolanomy feed was transferred from FeedBurner to Google, and there was some problems. The results? I had to burn a new feed, the subscribers count is down to 570, and I lost all email subscribers in the process. Darn. If you wants to get free daily email updates, you’ll have to go through the email subscription process again…and I hope you’ll.

For this week, I would like to highlights a few things.

Slight Design Update

In the past week or so, I have made some slight adjustments to Moolanomy’s design in hope that it will be easier for you to use. The first place to start is the updated help section which will guide you through all the major features of Moolanomy — most of which are accessible from the home page.

The primary changes are (1) the new navigation side bar on the home page and (2) addition of three new hub pages:

Making Money – A hub page for all the articles about making money and building alternative income.
Frugal Living – A hub page for all the articles about frugality and saving money.
Investing – A hub page for all the articles about frugality and saving money.

12 Days of Christmas – Personal Finance Style

Every year, the M-Network write a series called the 12 Days of Christmas – Personal finance style. This year we started on December 1st and completed our journey on the 12th. I believe this year series is excellent, much better than our first year’s effort. The 12 articles that make up the series include:

Day 1: The First Rule Of Personal Finance at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
Day 2: Two Financial Goals – Less Debt, More Income at Cash Money Life
Day 3: 3 New Year’s Worksheets at Mrs. Micah
Day 4: 4 ways to be better prepared for Christmas next year at Gather Little by Little
Day 5: 5 Golden Rules To Follow During The Holiday Season at My Two Dollars
Day 6: 6 Ways To Give at Moolanomy
Day 7: 7 Savings Strategies at Being Frugal
Day 8: 8 Simple Snowflakes at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
Day 9: 9 Year-End Money Moves at Moolanomy
Day 10: 10 Personal Finance Essentials at Cash Money Life
Day 11: 11 Ways To Decorate at Plonkee
Day 12: 12 Steps to a Prosperous New Year at Being Frugal

Top Articles From Around The Web

Here’s some of the top articles from PF Buzz this week:

Let Your Children Handle Their Own Finances at Money Ning – I always love the subject of teach children about money.
50 Frugal Gifts You Can Give This Christmas at Bible Money Matters – Still need frugal gift ideas? Here are 50 of them to use.
Freecreditreport.com Isn’t Free at Amateur Asset Allocator – I fell for this one and took me a while to realize that they were billing me each month.
Dividends – Cash or Reinvested? at ABC of Investing – Excellent question. This is the question that you should know the answer to before investing.

By the way, I’ll be traveling over the next few days and may be sporadic about posting articles, responding to emails and comments, etc.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

5 Comments

Peter
December 14, 2008, 16:29

Thanks for the link!
Steve Borgman
December 14, 2008, 17:43

I like your ideas on the new look. The only question I have is, it seems that the descriptions for Frugal Living and Investing are the same. Are they going to differ significantly from one another?
ABCs of Investing
December 15, 2008, 0:05

Thanks so much for the link! Enjoy your trip.
Mike
Mr. ToughMoneyLove
December 15, 2008, 2:02

Pinyo – Congrats on the new design – looks very nice.
Pinyo
December 17, 2008, 13:50

@Steve – I think you mean Making Money and Frugal Living. Yes, they will different significantly. As mentioned, I believe the 4 pillars of money management are: making money, spending less (frugality/expense reduction), investing, and debt management/reduction.