There’s a new awards site you should check out: The Plutus Awards, run by Flexo of Consumerism Commentary. Inspired by the Greek God of Wealth, this site looks to find the best in personal finance in 2009. There are two general awards groups: Products and Blogs.
Readers have three weeks, starting today, to makes nominations to the various categories. Once the nomination process is over a panel of bloggers will pick the finalist for the public to vote on.
Take a look at the products categories:
- Best Savings/Money Market Account
- Best Checking/Transaction Account
- Best Banking Website
- Best Overall Bank
- Best Discount Brokerage
- Best Credit Card
- Best Personal Finance Management Software
- Best Budgeting Software
- Best Tax Filing Software
- Best Peer-to-Peer/Social/Micro Lending Service
- Best Mobile Personal Finance Application
- Best Personal Finance Book of 2009
And the Blogger categories:
- Best New Personal Finance Blog
- Best New Personal Finance e-Book
- Best Economics Blog
- Best Investing Blog
- Best Real Estate Blog
- Best Debt Blog
- Best Tax Blog
- Best Frugality Blog
- Best Deals and Bargains Blog
- Best Religious Finance Blog
- Best Non-Collaborative General Personal Finance Blog
- Best Collaborative Personal Finance Blog
- Best Canadian Personal Finance Blog
- Best International Personal Finance Blog
- Best Personal Finance Blog for Teens or College Students
- Best Personal Finance Blog for Generation Y or X
- Best Personal Finance Blog for Careers
- Best Personal Finance Blog for Retirement
- Best Personal Finance Podcast
- Best Multi-Part Series
- Best Microblog
- Most Humorous Personal Finance Blog
- Most Controversial Personal Finance Blog
- Best Written Personal Finance Blog
- Best-Kept Secret Personal Finance Blog
- Best Designed Personal Finance Blog
- BLOG OF THE YEAR 2009
It’ll be a lot of fun to see what everyone thinks are the best products and blogs. I already have an idea of some of the things I’ll be nominating!
Go over to the Plutus Awards and get your nominations in (and if you feel like nominating Free From Broke for anything like say Best Non-Collaborative General Personal Finance Blog, or Best Personal Finance Blog for Generation Y and X, or maybe Best Microblog (@freefrombroke), for example, then by all means go ahead)!
