SPENDonLIFE.com Announces $2000 Blogging Scholarship Winner

Dallas, TX, January 08, 2009 --(PR.com)-- SPENDonLIFE.com awards $2000 to Arizona State University student and personal finance blogger Joseph McClellan. The contest guidelines required entrants to blog about the pitfalls of credit and identity theft. By researching these important topics and writing about them online, students help their peers learn how credit can significantly affect their lives.

Scholarship winner Joseph McClellan is a Global Business major at ASU, and plans to pursue a career in financial advising upon graduation. He has worked in the banking industry since 2005. Joseph decided to start his blog—http://debitversuscredit.com—after a friend came to him with some questions about credit. The blog post that won him the SpendonLife.com scholarship— Identity Theft is No Laughing Matter—discusses the dangers of identity theft by using an example from the popular TV show The Office.

For additional information on the SPENDonLIFE blogging scholarship, contact Carrie Davis or visit http://students.spendonlife.com.

SPENDonLIFE.com is an online credit services provider that offers the tools and resources needed to achieve healthy credit and avoid identity theft. SPENDonLIFE.com makes it easy to get your credit reports and scores to see how you rate. Their goal is to help consumers and students build and maintain a positive credit rating.

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