Financial Aid Podcast

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Add to My Profile | More Videos About the Financial Aid Podcast The Financial Aid Podcast started back in April 2005 as a way initially of providing audio training to a new employee who… well, to be charitable, needed to hear things more than once. After a few test runs, the consensus at the office was that the podcast might do well for the public as well as just for employees. At the end of June 2005, iTunes announced that it was bringing podcast support into the latest version, 4.9 - and the revolution was on, as millions of iPod owners would upgrade and have podcast software available to them. The Financial Aid Podcast became a daily show at that point and we haven’t looked back since. About Your Host, Christopher S. PennIn addition to being your host every weekday morning on the show, I’m also the Chief Technology Officer of the Student Loan Network and its parent company, the Edvisors Network. Prior to joining the Student Loan Network in 2003, I worked at a regional credit union data processor, which sounds far more impressive than it actually was, and did technical consulting for legal and accounting firms for a few years prior to that.
The thing I love the most about podcasting and what I do at the Student Loan Network is that it really allows me to express myself in new, creative ways. For me, financial aid and the student loan industry is almost a kind of passion. So much of modern American society revolves around money in one way or another, and the more I learn about it, the more I see, the more I understand. When you understand money and its power, you can look at a newspaper headline and instinctively get a sense for what’s really going on, for the discussions in the back rooms, the deals being made, and the real story behind the story. Want to understand why Washington DC does what it does? Money. Money, economics, all that stuff is so important, so vital to understand, and it’s what really drives me to crank out a podcast every single day. Each day, another piece gets added to the puzzle, and I know a little bit more about how to make the world work for me - and for my listeners. Stuffy Corporate-Style Biography Christopher Penn is the Chief Technology Officer of the Student Loan Network and Edvisors Network, as well as Chief Evangelist and Podcaster. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Political Science and a Master’s Degree in Information Systems from Boston University. Prior to joining the Student Loan Network, Mr. Penn worked as IT Director at Credit Union On-Line, a regional credit union data center in Waltham, Massachusetts and CTO of CASCAP, Inc., a non-profit based in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Penn has also been featured in books, newspapers, and publications for his role as co-founder of PodCamp, the New Media UnConference.
Sites I recommendhttp://www.StudentScholarshipSearch.com - free scholarship database http://www.ScholarshipPoints.com - activity-based scholarships http://www.FAFSAonline.com - free FAFSA information
Next:

http://www.StaffordLoan.com - for federal Stafford loans http://www.ParentPLUSLoan.com - for PLUS loans for parents http://www.GradLoans.com - for graduate PLUS loans http://www.AlternativeStudentLoan.com - private student loans, no FAFSA

After Graduation:

http://www.StaffordLoanConsolidator.com - make your loans affordable after graduation