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The Kiva Journals

Posted by Sloane Berrent in Giving Back, Initiatives Supporting Women and Girls, Kiva, Microfinance, Tech, Technology for Social Good on July 7, 2009 | View Comments

Made a loan on Kiva before?

If not I mean, come on, join the fun!

If you have, then you have probably (hopefully) received a Journal from Kiva. The Journal is the update on the progress of the Kiva Borrower you made a loan to. This journal goes to everyone who made a loan to that person, it could be 5 people, it could be 25. The journal is the interaction directly to YOU.

Part of my workplan (my full workplan) is to both audit and assess the process for journaling here at my MFI. How long does it take them to do each one? Can the process be made more efficient? Part of my role is also to go out and meet the Borrowers, check and make sure all of the information matches what it says both on the loan proposal and also on the Kiva website and then write journals for those women.

I invite you to visit the 3 journals I wrote today:

Amalia Discutido
Amalia


Conchita Zapanta
conchita


Gloria Riosgloria

What else would you like to see from Kiva, as a Lender, that would make you lend more or increase your loan? I’m interested to hear your feedback as I’m working on another post with my suggestions for the Kiva roadmap (like this one I did for Twitter). Leave a comment with your suggestions!

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    • Hmmm... how about short video clips, maybe 1-5 minutes in length of the lenders, similar to what Kiva offers on it's Youtube channel. Kiva should (if they don't already) provide all Fellows with point-and-click camcorders like the Flip.

      There should also be YT vid links *directly on the homepage* so as to attract more lenders. In this age of web surfers with little/no attention span, a video... *any* video would certainly help!

      Perhaps I missed it... however, is there a link *anywhere* on Kiva.org about the YT channel or videos being available? Using the rudimentary search engine, no mention of "video" was found in the help section. Well, that's my 2 cents, for whatever they worth - about .0000000000001 cents in this economy! ;)
    • Sloane Berrent
      Great tips. I will certainly include those in my post - which I'm working on for later this week.

      The amazing thing about Kiva is they haven't focused on being the "most" web 2.0 site and kept it simple. At the same time, there is SO much great content and it's hard for people to find it, the Kiva Fellows Blog, Journals, YouTue videos - these are all absolutely things that they should be doing. Thanks!
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