Archive for October, 2009

RT: @mattflannery: Kiva passed…

October 31, 2009 No Comments

RT: @mattflannery: Kiva passed $100M in loans at 2 PM today. Stunning achievement for the whole community.

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RT @mifos: Just launched Mifos…

October 30, 2009 No Comments

RT @mifos: Just launched Mifos Blog! – highlighting community-driven #technology 4 microfinance http://bit.ly/GVYk1#tech4mf #SocEnt #4change

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Congrats! RT: @mfinsider: Down…

October 30, 2009 No Comments

Congrats! RT: @mfinsider: Download a PDF of the first issue of The Microfinance Insider here: http://ow.ly/xDqL

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Review of “Freedom from Want”….

October 30, 2009 No Comments

Review of “Freedom from Want”. Book about BRAC founder Fazle Abed. http://bit.ly/eDvSu

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Correction to the last tweet. …

October 30, 2009 No Comments

Correction to the last tweet. Find SeaMo’s #microfinance twitter list here: http://twitter.com/SeaMoMicro/microfinance

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Thanks, Twitter, for giving us…

October 30, 2009 No Comments

Thanks, Twitter, for giving us “Lists”. We set up @seamomicro/microfinance Who are we missing?

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Israeli Finance Ministry consi…

October 30, 2009 No Comments

Israeli Finance Ministry considers plan to use post offices as #microfinance branches for the poor: http://tinyurl.com/yzy4m7f

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New Social Performance Metric …

October 29, 2009 No Comments

New Social Performance Metric blog by the Mix: http://www.spblog.org/

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Solar power for millions of ru…

October 29, 2009 No Comments

Solar power for millions of rural Africans through #microfinance http://tinyurl.com/yzle8dp

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RT @eyesonchina: join @wokai a…

October 28, 2009 No Comments

RT @eyesonchina: join @wokai and oriented for the first south bay happy hour in redwood city tomorrow night ! http://bit.ly/4g0PoP

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