If you are a relatively new reader, you might not even know that I do really embarrassing music videos. I’ve sung a love song to a Roth IRA and I’ve even dressed up like a girl. Unfortunately, I haven’t really had time to do music videos in the last 2 years. The last song I did was 11 months ago and it was at the Financial Blogger Conference as I was the MC for the Plutus Awards.
Well apparently FINCON is collectively tone deaf because they have asked me to come back and MC again for the 2013 Plutus Awards. Yes, that means another song and dance performance. Actually I don’t want to call any moments I make “dancing”, so let’s call it a song and awkwardly move around performance.
I’ve always been willing to embarrass myself in front of large groups of people, and I’m excited to do it again this year. If you are going to the Financial Blogger Conference, make sure you attend the Plutus Awards on Thursday night!
Now onto the more important stuff: there are some incredible websites that deserve to be nominated for Plutus Awards, and that’s where you come in.
If you are a fan of this and/or other personal finance blogs, it would be awesome if you nominated your favorite blogs for awards this year.
In the last year I’ve gone from posting 3-4 articles a week to just 1, and I don’t really feel like I’ve earned a Plutus Award this year so I would actually prefer if you don’t nominate me for anything. However, there are some really great blogs out there that deserve it.
As the MC I don’t want to name any names and play favorites, but you can check out my blogroll for some of my favorite blogs and I’ll definitely be hoping each of them wins something this year!
If you want to nominate blogs for awards this year, all you have to do is go to this link and fill out the nomination form. You can nominate blogs in as many or as few categories as you like, so don’t feel like you can’t fill out the form just because you don’t read tax blogs or Canadian blogs.
So hook a brother or sister up with a Plutus nomination, and then make sure to come to FINCON13 and watch me make a fool of myself!
Kevin McKee is an entrepreneur, IT guru, and personal finance leader. In addition to his writing, Kevin is the head of IT at Buildingstars, Co-Founder of Padmission, and organizer of Laravel STL. He is also the creator of www.contributetoopensource.com. When he’s not working, Kevin enjoys podcasting about movies and spending time with his wife and four children.
You rocked it last year Kevin! You’re a natural. Stop fishing for compliments with your modesty.
Looking forward to it! I thought you were pretty funny and it made for an epic night. Thanks for hosting again!
The truth is, it was me who wrote the majority of the negative comments about your wedding plans several posts back. I made up at least 12 different aliases and posted different things about how it’s dumb to spend all that money on a wedding. I just thought I would get all the negative vibes flowing and then the nay-saying floodgates would open up, but the majority of people actually came to your defense. Probably only 5 people agreed with me. Anyway, I just wanted to be honest about that…mostly because I feel bad that TAG got involved…It made me feel like a jerk when she personally responded and came to your defense…I don’t really want to take anything away from her special day. If you want to know which posts were mine and which posts were genuine blog readers, just ask me and I’ll go through the list and let you know. Anyway, I’m sorry for the hassle man. #Applesauce
Haha, that sounds awesome.
There’s an entire little personal finance blog subculture that I’ve been completely unaware of.
A word of caution, don’t try and go over the top to beat last year. I’ve seen it before when people get invited back for different presentations always trying to be zanier and cooler than last time.
They invited you back for a reason, they enjoyed last time. Don’t try and push the envelope, just do what you do.
Good luck.
You must be doing something right! Can’t make it this year, but will you post your performance later? Agree totally with Frugal Sage, don’t try to outdo yourself. You’ll be great so go out there and break a leg!