It’s that time to look back….so let’s get started. Back where it all started… At the start of 2010, my new year’s resolution was to blog more. I think I achieved that, with at least one blog post for every day of this year. This was not a purely selfish endeavor either, as I know [ Read More ]
Browsing around while i was waiting for some web work to upload to my client’s hosting service, i stumbled upon this site: http://www.jumo.com/ They say “We connect individuals and organizations working to change the world.” It’s a new concept by one of the Facebook.com co-founders….the same guy who helped the online social organizing campaign for [ Read More ]
I realized this week, that i have not really blogged about something that is very important to me, and that’s the concept of micro-financing. I’ve been a member on Kiva.org since April 9th, 2008, and have since made 32 loans to a multitude of countries. My lender page (linked through the image above) lists all [ Read More ]
For those that have been following me for a while now, I am an avid loaner on Kiva.org. It’s a microfinance organization, that allows anyone to make small loans to people in developing nations (mostly…although they did open up a USA branch recently). They are zero-interest loans, so they are easier for these people to [ Read More ]
