Kiva on MySpace

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[Joe]

I've taken over the responsibilities of Kiva's MySpace page from the previous volunteer who has moved on. The MySpace community currently has over 5,700 friends. If you're on MySpace, send a request!

http://www.myspace.com/kivaloans

Hopefully a lot of those folks will slowly migrate over here for a better organized/spam-free discussion about Kiva. It'll also be a nice place to plug our future projects and contests.

[Julia]

If you haven't already thought of this, you might want to put 'thanks for the add' to the friends comment pages with a link to KIVA.  I do this for garb the world and it gets hits and increases our friends.

(this is supposed to be an example not a shameless plug for my business)
 

[Joe]

That's the first thing I did, actually With the 200 or so pending requests that were waiting. I've got a program that approved them and left a "Thanks for supporting Kiva!" comment on their page. That alone spawned more requests from people that might have not heard of Kiva, so it's a nice cycle that should pay off.

[RichardF]

Myrlia Purcell of Look to the Stars suggested we contact celebrities with MySpace pages and tell them about Kiva.  Has anyone tried that?  Sent them a gift certificate?

[Joe]

I've "friended" various A, B, C and Z list celebrities on there. They add us to their list, which is nice, but don't really say anything other than that. Of course I haven't had the time to follow up with everyone and see who is really interested or just building their list.

That Look to the Stars site is very cool. 

[RichardF]

What about the D-List?  I'm thinking Kathy Griffin should be good for a loan or two! 

[tarzan113]

Great job on the page!

Glad to see that Kiva is using all of the media tools out there!

Sincerely,

David Cox