FitBloggin' does things a little differently than some conferences. We don't have traditional “volunteer” positions or your run-of-the-mill “scholarships.” FitBloggin’ will now be accepting applications for assistantships to help bloggers who are unable to attend the conference for financial reasons. Here’s how it works: In exchange for a free ticket to FitBloggin’14, each assistant will … [Read more...]

Thank you to everyone who submitted a spark for the FitBloggin'14 keynote event: Ignite Fitness.  Today we announce the final list of speakers. After much consideration (it was SO hard to pick, guys!) we would like to extend speaker invitations to: … [Read more...]

Thank you to everyone who applied to speak and everyone who voted. Today we announce half of the speakers for the Ignite Fitness keynote event at Fitbloggin'14. These first speakers have been selected by you, the Fitbloggin community, with a weighted vote that closed yesterday. Meredith Olney - 9 Miles (@mereditholney) Sarah Bramblette - Just Keep Splashing (@born2lbfat) Michelle … [Read more...]

When you start a business, any business including a blogging based one, it's important to have a basic and fundamental understanding of Accounting Principals. "…accounting literacy underpins financial literacy… which in turn is the basis for truly understanding business.  This understanding is often called 'business acumen'. …we believe that accounting-based business acumen is better business … [Read more...]

It is that time in our conference planning when you decide if you want to put it all out there for yourself and your fellow attendees during the booty-kicking keynote known as Ignite Fitness.  This is one of the few times in the conference where we all convene to let our hair down, laugh, learn in quick spurts, then get silly with the karaoke after.  If you have no idea what Ignite is, watch this … [Read more...]

Every year we look to the blogging community help define the content offered at FitBloggin'. If you are interested in applying to speak but don't know what topic is best suited for our community, here's a list of requests from last year's attendees: … [Read more...]

With the venue finally set, it's time to hit the ground running! Speaker applications are now open and will remain open until November 15, 2013, at midnight ET. This year we are doing things a little differently. Instead of tracks based on the type of presentation (discussion, workshop, etc) we are creating 3 content-based tracks: … [Read more...]