Competition - Spreadsheet Descriptions

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[YowieFreak]

Maybe it's a little late to ask the question, but do all the entries meet whatever requirements Kiva might have for listing the description?

(After all, that was sort of the whole point of the exercise-- to get Kiva to explain what the spreadsheet does.)

Dan

I think all the entered descriptions are probably better than what Kiva currently has - i.e. "    ".  (Maybe they decided to use my user name for the description! )  And I doubt if Kiva has any specific requirements regarding the description - e.g. length.

Hopefully when people vote they will vote for the description that they believe will work best on the Kiva App Gallery page and the results of the voting will yield something good.

Although I will suggest the winning entries to Kiva, if Kiva refuses to use those winning entries for some reason then I will give them the full list of entries and let them pick one.

[YowieFreak]

A couple of people who have submitted entries have commented about the ethics of voting for their own entry.  (In both cases they have chosen not to vote for their own entry, believing that they shouldn't.)

I don't believe that there is any reason why a person should not be entitled to vote for their own entry if, after seeing the other entries, they still believe theirs is the best.

Because I am the all-powerful rule-maker for this competition, I get to decide that that is now an official rule:

• Entrants to the competition are free to vote, including for their own entry if they so desire.

Regards,
  Ian

[Unilove]

I think it is fine to vote for your own entry... you are a lender first, and a suggester second   And, I am only a voter and not a suggester...

[YowieFreak]

KivaFriends' Spreadsheets Descriptions Contest

Only two (and a little bit) more days to go to get your votes in for what you believe are the best descriptions of the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets.  Your vote is important - please submit it.

If you find the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets useful, help us select the best description for the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets from those listed in this post.

Once we determine the best description for each KivaFriends' Spreadsheet, we will be able to get Kiva to attach that description to each of the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets where the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets are listed on the Kiva Apps Gallery page.

Once there are better descriptions (and anything has to be better than nothing!) shown for the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets on the apps page, more users will make use of the KivaFriends' Spreadsheets (and hopefully come and join KivaFriends too).

Regards,
  Ian

(with apologies to Judy )

[Kathy]

My vote are for e, c and d.


e) The A-to-Z of your loans.  (maybe... "The A to Z" of managing your Kiva portfolio...a combination of two ideas)


c) Who's borrowing now. (maybe "Who can I fund now?" by using your lending criteria and a quick click your loan is in a basket and ready for checkout!...a combination of several ideas)

d) How big is your personal Kiva Community?  How many and which lenders have helped fund your loans?  Which lender(s) seem(s) to have the same lending criteria and are on virtually all of your loans?  This Excel-based tool helps you find out. (maybe just a simple..."My Kiva Lending Community" and what keeps us meeting in the same place...a combination of several ideas)


Looking forward to seeing the apps on Kiva no matter what!
 

[YowieFreak]

I received votes from eight KFers over the last seven days, and now declare the winners of the competition to be:


Category 1: Summary spreadsheet

a) Allows you to easily manage and make sense of your Kiva portfolio, whatever its size.

Submitted by Diane.


Category 2: FundraisingLoans spreadsheet

b) Browse, filter and search all currently fundraising Kiva loans in an Excel spreadsheet.

Submitted by Wolfgang.


Category 3: CommonLenders spreadsheet

a) KivaTrivia: Which lenders do you share most loans with?  Which loan(s) do you share with your best friend?  (Requires MS Excel for PC)

Submitted by Wolfgang.


Congratulations to the winners - commiserations to the non-winners.

I will now notify Kiva of these winning entries and try to convince them to add them to the Apps Gallery page.  (But I might wait a day or two - until after I release v2.0 of the Summary spreadsheet.  [I want to at least include stats based on "Currency Risk" into it, even if I can't do anything else with currency risk yet.])

P.S.  GCs will be on their way once I work out what info I need to PM people - I hope it's just the GC code and the email address I used to purchase them.

[Diane R]

Gee!  I hope our offerings help get your fine work the attention it deserves, at last, Ian.


--Diane.