Nov 7: Money Matters for Kids

Money Matters for Kids: Earn it, Save it, Spend it, Share It! Traveling Exhibit and Workbook Launch * Nov. 7, 10 AM
It is never too early to teach our children to be financially literate.  When we start young, we can be wise savers, careful spenders and smart consumers!  Through a sponsorship grant [...]

Analysis Paralysis: What are the Best Financial Products for You?

Ok.  So you’ve  decided that 2009 will be the year in which you will commit yourself to putting your financial house together.   You’ve done a financial health check and discovered the vulnerable areas which need additional attention e.g  too much debt, too low a return on savings or onerous finance charges which could be restructured.   You’ve [...]

Free Ebook: Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan

I bet you are scared. Angry, too. And confused.

 These are the opening lines to Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan:  Keeping Your Money Safe and Sound, echoing the feelings in most households around the world.    In it,  she shares advice that we can all start using today to better manage our money and start living our best [...]

From Blog to Printed Baby Book

Springwise regularly trawls through the world wide web searching for new business ideas spotted around the world.  My favorite this week is the great new offering by Kidmondo & Baby Chapters.
Here’s the Springwise entry:
Online and offline are no longer mutually exclusive realms, as we’ve already pointed out in numerous examples. The latest illustration comes from [...]

Freebie picks of the week

I’ve come across some website gems which I’d like to share with everyone.

Open Yale Courses – Lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses are made available to the public free of charge via the internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

Finetune [...]

Tikatok: Book Publisher for Kids

We should do all we can to encourage our kids’ imagination and creativity.  What better way to encourage the next Charles Dickens or JKRowling than have their book(s) published?
Tikatok is offering a great service by providing children and their parents with a platform in which they can write and illustrate their own stories,  share them [...]

Private Iris: a comic book that teaches money management

Gosh,  I’m really feeling my age.  I’ve made the transition from Mythology Class to Private Iris.  =) 
The comic book series created by Jamie Bautista and Arnold Arre follows the young detective Private Iris as she solves mysteries while imparting useful facts and money savings tips which are relevant to today’s youth.  
The first case – “The Cashbox Caper” introduces the lead [...]

2008 Manila International Book Fair

I’m so sad that I’m stuck here in KL in the upcoming week.  
Booklovers across the Metro have been counting down the days to the 29th Manila International Book Fair will be held from September 12 to 16, 2008, 10:00 A.M.to 8:00 P.M. at Halls 1-4, SMX Convention Center in SM Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay [...]

Build or Remodel Your Own House: free ebook

Build or Remodel Your Own House
Save 25% without Lifting a hammer
Be the General ContractorCarl Heldlmann,  author of the bestseller Be Your Own House Contractor is letting visitors to his website download this ebook for free for a limited time period. 
Hurry,  download it now and learn how to : · Get Started
· Select Land Wisely
· Select & Read House [...]

Saving and Investing: Michael Fischer makes the complex, simpler

I was surfing through youtube the other day and came across the savingandinvesting channel of Michael Fischer.  A former Goldman and Sachs man,  Michael has made financial literacy his personal advocacy and seeks to demystify various financial concepts for the man on the street. 

He writes: 
“This subject is not about greed, short-cuts, opinions or speculation – it [...]