Over the last few months, we have worked hard to bring FiLife community members all the features they need to get help with their personal finances. What we have learned is that people have specific questions about their finances, and they want simple, honest, straightforward answers.

We heard you loud and clear, and today we launched a new version of FiLife, focusing on questions and answers.  Ask your personal finance questions and get answers from the FiLife community of experts and members with first-hand experience. All of the great FiLife Guides, stories and tools are still available on the site. They are just organized around specific questions.

For example, ask a question about Social Security and get related guides, stacker polls and calculators.

We also made it easier to post questions from anywhere via Twitter.  Just send a message to @AskFiLife from your Twitter account and we will notify you when you get an answer.

Take a second to ask your pressing (or not so pressing) personal finance question, and let us know what you think about the changes!

The FiLife Team

Today is an important day in healthcare reform as President Obama outlines his plans to congress.

We think the FiLife Community should be part of the debate, so we are launching a new Twitter contest where people can suggest how to fix our healthcare system in 3 words.  To enter, just go to our contest page and tweet your suggestions.  We will be giving away $100 to five random winners.

Here are the rules and press release for more information.

Now lets get started fixing our healthcare!

The FiLife Team

As you may have heard, we are growing quickly.  We are looking to expand our amazing marketing team to help get out the FiLife message.

If you are a social media ninja and are looking to join a growing internet company, check out these new opportunities.

• Senior Marketing Manager
• Assistant Marketing Manager

Should you decide to accept this mission, please contact us via the listings.

The FiLife Team

We recently got some exciting news that we wanted to share.  According to the ComScore numbers from July, the FiLife community doubled in size from June to July.  That is an increase from 1.2 million to 2.5 million unique visitors during the month.

FiLife is now the 5th largest financial advice destination on the web!  More details can be found in our press release.

Thank you to our great community, partners and FiLife Contributors that made this success possible.  We look forward to working with everyone to get to the next milestone.

The FiLife Team

Over the last few months, we have seen a huge increase in comments and reviews on the site.  Now, FiLife gives you the ability to not just make and respond to comments and reviews, but to rate them as well!  Rating comments gives FiLife the chance to surface them more quickly, giving you and all FiLife community members quick access to the best information. We think this will make comment and reviews even more valuable.

As always, let us know what you think.

The FiLife Team

As part of our focus on family finance, we realize that stocks and mutual funds are an important aspect of your overall financial health.  To make sure we are offering the most complete destination for family finance, we are very excited to announce the inclusion of stock, index and mutual fund quotes from our friends at MarketWatch.

In true FiLife fashion, we took a slightly different twist.  We wanted to make sure it was visually stunning and socially aware.  We added Twitter updates (ok, tweets) about each stock so you can see what people are saying about the company in real time.

Let us know what you think.

The FiLife Team

We have always had some of the best Family Finance resources online, but it wasn’t very easy to pull it into your favorite RSS Reader and browsers. We have updated all the RSS feeds on the site to make that easier and linked them from the related areas of the site with the trusty orange square .

Click on these around the site to get access to our content wherever and whenever you choose.

Here are some handy links to add to your favorite readers:

• Google Reader
• MyYahoo
• Bloglines
• RSS Feed

The FiLife Team (who we are)

As you can see, we have been hard at work getting out lots of new features.  We added another great feature that allows you to use your Facebook information to join the FiLife community.

For all you techies, we integrated with Facebook Connect which is what allows you to login to FiLife using your Facebook email and password.

Anywhere on the site where you needed to login before, you can now click on the button to complete your task.

Also, when you contribute to the FiLife community, that information can be pushed back to your Facebook news feed (but only if you want to) so that your Facebook friends can also contribute.

Here is an example of what it looks like in the Facebook newsfeed.

As always send us any feedback.

The FiLife Team

Over the last few months, we have been listening to our users about what you need in a personal finance site.  After weeks of late nights, we are very proud to introduce the new version of FiLife.

Here is what you can expect to see in the new version:

• Better organization around topics like Taxes, Credit Cards and Mortgages.  We even run through things like Identity Theft Protection.
• New navigation with drop-down menus and tabs, to make it easy to find the information that helps you most.
• Improved Q&A Section where anyone can ask or answer (yes, even you) questions about personal finance.
• Integration with Twitter that allows you to see what people are saying about topics and companies in real-time.
• Comment on stories from our featured partners like The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch
• New Inside FiLife blog for company news and corporate developments. Posts from the previous blog can be found alongside their related topics on the main site.

In the future, we will be sure to tell you about features and changes with each new release of the site. Make sure you check back or subscribe to us in your favorite RSS feed reader.

We look forward to helping you live the FiLife (as well as making and saving more money).

The FiLife Team