September 15, 2006 in
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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.
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:
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:
Very, very cool.
I should add that 50% of one loan and 30% of the other have already been paid back.
Just stopping by to note that the founder’s blog has been changed to as we have moved it over from blogspot directly to Social Edge.
Take care