Weekly Roundup – M-Network Website Edition

Hello everyone! Last week was an exciting one for me. The biggest news is that I was able to schedule two job interviews. This weekend was spent preparing for job interviews… The interviews are coming up this week, so hopefully I will hear some good news soon! Here are some other announcements:

M-Network Website. This week the M-Network launched it’s official group site. The site will be used to make M-Network group announcements, display current post excerpts from member blogs, and provide a centralized feed so people can subscribe to each of our blogs through one feed instead of individual feeds. Be sure to check it out!

CNN Recognizes 3 personal finance blogs! Money Magazine recognized three personal finance blogs as being part of the 100 best money resources. The three blogs were – All Financial Matters (Most Sensible pf blog), My Money Blog (Most voyeuristic), and Get Rich Slowly (Most inspiring). Congrats to JLP, Jonathan, and JD for this well deserved praise and recognition!

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Here are my favorite articles from this week:

Financial goals:

• The 5th Carnival of Financial Goals was held at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already.
• Single Guy gives us an update on his 2008 financial goals and his progress.

Career: I’ve been doing a little job hunting recently, and even have a couple interviews lined up for this week. These articles have a great deal of importance to me:

• 10 Things Not to Do in an Interview. These are solid tips from Gather Little by Little. I’ve read this article a couple times already, and bookmarked it. It that good!
• Trent from The Simple Dollar wrote about taking control of your destiny at work.
• How to survive a layoff. With the economy in the early stages of a recession, this may become more common. It’s unfortunate, but a reality. Frugal Dad has a lot of great tips.
• You don’t need a corporate job to survive. David from My Two Dollars shares how he and his wife made the leap away from corporate employment.

P2P Lending: Last week, Lending Club made a major announcement. There has been a lot of discussion in the pf blogoshere regarding this, and I plan to write more about it this week. Here is what a few others have to say about it:

• Lazy Man says Lending Club is dead. Personally, I don’t think so, but I’ll give my reasons later this week.
• Debt Kid gives his opinion on Lending Club’s current situation.
• The 7th Carnival of P2P Lending was held at Moolanomy.
• Quest for Four Pillars asks is Lending Club bankrupt?
• Dough Roller talks about Lending Club’s major announcement.

Spending / Frugality:

• JD asks several pf bloggers and his readers what they splurge on. I think everyone has a few things they spend a little extra on that they probably don’t need to. But money is or living, so enjoy it while you can!
• 168 tips to stretch your dollar. As brought to you by Being Frugal.
• My Dollar Plan has 30 Money Saving Tips.
• Consumerism Commentary has 10 tips for breaking the credit card habit.
• Being too frugal with your money can hurt your relationship.

Retirement / Investing:

• Jeremy from GenXFinance relates a story about how people can misunderstand how investments work, and make huge mistakes in the process.
• Should you keep you money in a pension plan, or cash it out? KMC from Advanced Personal Finance cashed his out – which is what I would have done as well.
• Frugal Dad teaches his daughter about compound interest.

Life, Money, and More:

• The Seven Traits of Successful People. This was a guest post at Get Rich Slowly, written by Pinyo from Moolanomy. It’s a great article.
• Plonkee says stupidity costs us our dreams.
• Are you in sleep debt? I probably am… I don’t sleep much during the week, mostly because I just like being awake. There’s always something productive to do.
• Mrs. Micah asks what’s wrong with being in the middle class? Absolutely nothing, in my opinion.
• Silicon Valley Blogger has some great tips for surviving a recession.

Thanks for stopping by everyone!