links for 15 September 2006
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yet another great post from Kathy Sierra with some great tips on getting (and keeping) people’s attention
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I love this. Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Go, now! Check it out. Let someone else get more value from $20 than you ever will.
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This isn’t actually an article about design, but I think it’s really relevant to anyone who is trying to design a good and effective user experience.
3 Comments
Grant on September 18th, 2006
I should add that 50% of one loan and 30% of the other have already been paid back.
Taylor Cimala on May 16th, 2007
Just stopping by to note that the founder’s blog has been changed to http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/kiva-chronicles as we have moved it over from blogspot directly to Social Edge.
Take care
Grant on September 18th, 2006
Kiva is absolutely tops. I came across it about a year ago. I’ve currently provided part of two loans to businesses in Honduras.
The founders of the service are really passionate and have a great blog at:
http://kivachronicles.blogspot.com/
They’ve also funded Carl to set up shop in Uganda to teach programming whilst also developing Kiva’s site. Carl maintains another great blog (with tonnes of photos) at:
http://www.carlsbigadventure.com/
Very, very cool.