Dear KivaFriends,
Many of you know me already, some of you know quite well what I am doing from this post here -
http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,2964.0.html - on
Kiva's Web-organizational chart and the same post, later in time, on a
survey I am still currently running through and about KivaFriends :
http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,2964.msg60502.html#msg60502.
The survey is
available here and nicely open to all who want to contribute to it:
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http://www.stellarsurvey.com/s.aspx?u=77320F3E-9B3C-4846-97E3-BB35D980D2DC& .
My name is Damien Lanfrey, Italian/French PhD Candidate at City University of London, Department of Sociology. I have been working on researching online activism and Web-native platforms for social change for the past two years.
I am opening a new thread here (should the right place) in order to ask you for some
final suggestions that does not involve filling new surveys - apart from the one already open (see above).
I might, as agreed already with some captains, open a quick survey on Kiva Teams to get Kiva some other final data and enhance my understanding of Teams, which I find very interesting.
Do you have any suggestion on what you'd want to know about Kiva Teams, or any interesting comment on what you find interesting/intriguing about them?Apart from some of the usual questions I ask in my survey, I was thinking to:
- How many teams people belong to and to which categories or combination of categories (although I can know this by studying a bit stats from Kiva site on most crowded categories).
- Which motivation for joining/participating in a Kiva team (for example fun, competing, simply lending, meeting likeminded, giving voice to something) --> This could also be in the form of a comment box, so to let people freely express their views.
- Team impact on people, for example bonding, changes in type of engagement, producing support to Kiva
- Whether the idea of so many different meanings/messages/competition attached to some teams could be considered confusing or generate issues or not
- Whether they have ideas about what could be improved about Kiva Teams experience
Hope this makes sense,
Thanks a lot,
Damien
