An Open Comment Night @ Liz Strauss’ is like an open mic. You just show up, say “Hi” and then say jump into any conversation. You don’t have to read all the comments as you are typing yours — though you really should read all the comments at the end of the Open Comment Night to pick up whatever information and links that you’ve missed earlier.

OK, so, we were all talking about Twitter and our favourite Twitter apps and the million-dollar-question “What happens if Twitter starts charging?” A total of 232 comments were posted in 3 hours (isn’t this crazy?!) and after the dust has settled, as they say, I have gone back and picked up 9 interesting Twitter-related links that Liz herself suggested. I think we were all supposed to share some links but I guess we were all too hyped up we forgot about the sharing part

As the name suggests, Twitterfeed feeds your blog to your Twitter. All you need to do is sign up for an account for free, provide your blog’s RSS feed URL and Twitterfeed will do the job for you! Alternatively, if your blog is self-hosted, you may also install Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin (which is what I am using). Twitter Tools places a check box on your WRITE POST page and you can uncheck it if you do not want a particular post to be announced on Twitter.

Twitturly is a service for tracking the links/URLs that people are talking on Twitter. It doesn’t matter whether you use the entire long URL or if you have shortened a link using TinyURL, or Snipurl (snurl) or any other URL shortening services, as each “mention” or “vote” will be verified and counted. And to keep things fresh, Twitturly only shows the 100 most popular URLs over the last 24 hours. If you want to know what people are tweeting, Twitturly is the place to go.

Not sure if you should follow your new followers on Twitter? My Tweeple is designed to help you decide whether or not to follow certain people on Twitter when they follow you. You sign up for a free account, sync your My Tweeple account with your Twitter account, and maintain your list of Twitter followers and friends either by following them, unfollowing them, or blocking them.

TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter! Put in a keyword or website, and get emails when others tweet it! You can easily keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, your favourite subjects, or anything at all! You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL. Just sign up for a free account and you’re ready to go!

TweetScan is like TweetBeep with a search function. Once you sign up for a free account, you can receive updates via email, RSS, or you could use the Click button. TweetScan can also be used to find lost or multi-user replies. TweetScan scan up to five phrases for daily or weekly delivery and best of all, you can turn it off anytime. If you’re like me, trying not to sign up for accounts that you don’t use, you can just type your keyword and hit the SEARCH button, and it will return a list of tweets that mention your keyword.

TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code (if you live in the United States), choose the range of miles you want to include, and hit the GO button. You’ll instantly get URLs to add to your RSS reader. I have tried searching for “Malaysia” within a range of 20 miles and the search returned a list of tweets from Twitter users in Malaysia. It really isn’t too bad

Monitter is a Twitter monitor that allows you to “monitter” the Twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying. All you need to do is just type any 3 keywords (maximum) into the search boxes and within seconds you’ll start seeing relevant tweets streaming LIVE.

Twitter 100 shows you your 100 followers’ last tweets. If you have too many followers, you may not be able to follow your of them but with Twitter 100, you can see up to 100 of your followers on one screen!

Tweet Clouds generates a keyword cloud for you so that you can tell, at one glance, what you have been tweeting about. Check out my Tweet Cloud.

There you have it — 9 Twitter apps that you might not have heard of. If you know of any other Twitter apps that you think some readers aren’t aware of, please do share them in the comments!

Also, my Twitter account is http://twitter.com/pelf81/ and I tweet mostly about turtles and conservation (what else?) whenever I can And I use Twitter occasionally to network (make new friends) and touch base (keep the old ones).

3 Comments

• At November 21, 2008, Abhishek wrote:

  Long list of great tools. surely try them out. !

• At November 21, 2008, kristarella wrote:

  Thanks for the summary!

  I've just signed up for Twitterfeed. I've found that Alex King's plugin adds a custom field every single time you save, which I don't really like...

  Wonder if there's a tool that can help me keep up with tweets!

• At November 21, 2008, ColourfulWorld wrote:

  You open up my eyes. Thanks for the tips on how to utilizing Twitter effectively...

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I’m not sure about you, but I do have a tonne of online accounts — from emails to online banking accounts to my blogs to the forums that I am a part of to photo sharing sites to social media sites to online bookmarks, you name it, I (think I) have it!

So today, I started doing some account-housekeeping. I have just sent an email each to Bloglines, Amazon Associates and PayPerPost to request that my account be deleted from their respective systems because “I did not utilize it as much as I thought I would”.

This decision is also spurred by something that happened quite recently. A Malaysian government department used a picture of mine (which I uploaded into Flickr) in a brochure that they designed and circulated nationwide. My picture was used on the front page of the brochure but as the photographer, I wasn’t given the credit that I so deserved. I wrote to the said department, and the Deputy Director said that the picture was downloaded by one of their interns and they thought the picture belonged to that intern. I accepted their explanation, and I explained that they could be sued for using pictures without crediting the photographers.

I have this cute little notebook into which I wrote all my online accounts and passwords, so in the next few days, I shall be combing the little notebook, removing whatever online accounts that I am not active in (so that I can sign up for other stuff that I am currently interested in) It is going to take a while, but I guess this is something that needs to be done sooner rather than later. Plus, I can’t go to bed knowing that I have revealed too much personal information on the internet

Are you worried about your online presence? Do you think you have revealed too much personal information on the internet? What do you do about it?

Updates: As of Nov 14th, I have opted out of 13 online accounts that I very seldom use. THIRTEEN!

22 Comments

• At November 10, 2008, Jim Gaudet wrote:

  Have you heard of a program called True Crypt? It is free and it will create a virtual hard drive that is encrypted with one password. This drive can be configured with many different types of encryption, you get to choose your level. Speed or Security.

  This password for your encrypted virtual hard drive should be your strongest password and something you can keep in a safe deposit box.

  Now you can store all your documents, without their own passwords in this virtual drive. Load it whenever you want and close it when you log off. I also keep a passwords file inside this drive for all my online accounts.

  So even if you system gets hacked they need either your strong password or a real long time...

  Since you are at the beginning of your organization, I think this is a great start for you. I have no affiliation with True Crypt, I just think it is perfect, since its free.

  http://www.truecrypt.org/

  ~ Jim

• At November 10, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Hi Jim, I have never heard of True Crypt, but the strong points of using the virtual drive are also the same points why I am afraid of trying it. Words like "virtual drive", "encrypt", "strong passwords" scare me, LOL.

  But thanks for the recommendation. I am sure some of my readers will be brave enough to try it out :D

  But True Crypt doesn't solve the issue if we reveal too much information on the internet. For example, you have a Facebook account, a Twitter account, a blog and what-have-yous, how do you ensure that you do not reveal too much personal information? When it gets "too much", it comes to a point where the information controls you, not the other way round. But this is just my point of view :D

• At November 10, 2008, Nicole Price wrote:

  It is never too late to regroup and eliminate all the accounts that are useless. Unsubscribe brutally. I keep doing this every now and then.

  Wherever possible, and where it is allowed, you should also delete all details from your social network portals.

• At November 10, 2008, Derrick Kwa wrote:

  I think it's....just a changing world. Yes, it's risky, but eventually social norms and all will evolve to adapt. Maybe it's because I've grown up with these technologies all my life. Yes, there's a lot of personal information about me online, for example. But it's opened more opportunities than anything else.

  In any relationship (friendly, professional, whatever), you are taking a risk. To build any relationship, you need to reveal things about yourself, and that is always risky. The web opens up new opportunities for new relationships, but in doing so, it opens more risks as well. In my opinion, it's worth it. These relationships - and the communities built from those relationships - can be really powerful, and so, yeah. That's why I'm willing to reveal that much personal information about myself.

At November 11, 2008, Mangkuk wrote: Comment deleted because:
1. the commentator's name is not a valid name,
2. the email address is not valid, but most importantly,
3. I don't like being called st*pid on my own blog.

• At November 11, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Derrick, I am glad that you see the value of putting much of your personal information on the internet, but unfortunately, I don't see it. I used to think that the internet is just that -- inter net.

  But these days, like you said, times have changed. Soon, I believe, our personal information on the internet will no longer be something that we have control over. I am sure you'd want to control what you put on the internet, wouldn't you?

• At November 11, 2008, Horizon wrote:

  Don't worry. ^^ We have anti virus and firewall. :)

• At November 11, 2008, ColourfulWorld wrote:

  I'm not sure about other parts of the world but apparently in Malaysia, there is hardly any awareness about intellectual property (IP) so that is why software piracy is still running wild. Recall your undergraduate years, did you or your coursemates happened to copy and paste text and photos from the Internet and submit them in your assignment?

  Well, at least in Malaysia identity theft is not a big issue compared to the US and Europe but with more and more people getting into the IT industry, and some of them have hidden agendas, there might be possibilities that our identity could be forged, fabricated, manipulated to do not so good things.

  There is no longer a clear border between private information and public information as we march into an era of ever evolving intelligence systems. Nevertheless it's still ok that we are not overly dependent on technology in our daily activities. I fully agree to what Derrick says but Internet is just like everything else, a double edged sword which could get what you want and at the same time hurting yourself. So I suggest balancing yourself between the online and offline worlds.

  Horizon, there is no such thing as invincible / impenetrable antiXXX system (whatever you call it). Each system is being built with a backdoor so that if something went wrong the programmer can override to bypass / shutdown /debug the error. If this backdoor is being known to the bad guys then everything will be chaotic. Therefore there is always a war happening daily without our knowing, the battle between black hats and white hats.

  I agree to Kevin Mitchnick, one of the world's famous hacker/cracker that it's is human factor that causes a system to go nuts, and this happens especially when you are dealing with more advanced system which requires real time response from the users. Take COMODO firewall Pro and ZoneAlarm Firewall for example, they are very poweful yet very complicated to the extent that not every average user knows how to harness the full power. One click by mistake and you will accidentally allow well hidden and camouflaged malicious code to be excecuted. In the end, the computer (smart) still need us (dumbass) to work flawlessly.

• At November 11, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Thanks for sharing the information with us, Loony. I guess not many people are scaredy cats like me :)

  I can't stand the thought that I have revealed too much of myself online (this includes my personal information, my photos, my writings, my everything), especially now that I have realized how much my intellectual property means to me, and how easily other people can make what belongs to me, theirs.

• At November 11, 2008, pelfy wrote:

  I am afraid too especially when people google your name ever now and then to check on you. And to me, they are more spying! *yuk* That is why I rarely post any pictures of my face in my blog anymore. *teeheehee*

• At November 12, 2008, Steve wrote:

  That is crazy that the government used your picture like that. On the one hand, I think it could be a little flattering, but on the other, it is a violation of your property and probably your privacy. I remember not too long ago Virgin Mobile, a cell phone company, did pretty much the same thing in Australia. It is things like this that really drive home how small the World and specifically the Internet really is.

  Personally, I also tend to be pretty paranoid about putting my personal info out there. I am pretty particular about the services I sign up for.

• At November 14, 2008, silveraven wrote:

  that was why i closed my old blog from public. :) i couldn't bring myself to delete it yet though...

  i agree with what you said about exposing ourselves too much online. it started to scare me when someone told me it could be used against us when we're looking for jobs and such. i'm also starting to delete some accounts i have which i'm not active in...but i don't have a "cute little notebook into which I wrote all my online accounts and passwords" so it's gonna take a longer time. :p

  good luck to eliminating useless accounts!

  p/s: start to watermark your pics now perhaps?

• At November 14, 2008, pelf wrote:

  I used to watermark my pictures at the bottom right corner, but apparently that is not enough. That corner, as with other corners, can be cropped out easily.

  I guess the only more efficient way to watermark our pictures these days is to place the watermark ON the focal point of the picture, or across the picture. Sad, huh?

• At November 15, 2008, Zhu wrote:

  I think it is smart to think of how much info we leave behind us on the web. Within the last ten years, I probably registered to hundreds of websites, left my address a few times (online purchases) etc.

  I google myself once in a while to see what comes up and I do keep an eye on it.

  I liked Eagle Eye as well ;-)

• At November 15, 2008, Life for Beginners wrote:

  There's some fear, certainly, of exposing ourselves too much online. But isn't that some sort of self-love of exhibitionism running in all of us anyway, these days? The internet is just a tool, and there are days when I wonder if it isn't a boon, after all, helping lonely souls connect when they otherwise would not have.

  This is partly why I blog, to be honest, to connect. And it IS self-love, I'll admit, to share a certain portion of my life with complete strangers. And I've been paid poorly some days with spammers and racists and other manner of personalities I would not wish to associate myself with... but when someone says they get something, out of all our ramble, that's rewarding, there.

  P.S. Have not caught Eagle Eye on account of spending too much time online! :P

• At November 15, 2008, ColourfulWorld wrote:

  WOW, 13 accounts? That's way too much... I only have 4 to 6 accounts at max... No wonder you need to do housekeeping...

  To me, I love to see people using my stuff. That shows that my work is up to expectation but there must be a balance. You use then you state the source. That's all. Anyway, I didn't know about the "state the source" thing until 2 months later after I started to blog. So basically blogging teaches me quite a number of new things.

  Well said LfB, I agree with you, especially the last sentence "but when someone says they get something, out of all our ramble, that’s rewarding, there."

  Pelfy, are you afraid of being stalked? If people are looking for your info on the net, you should be happy because you are a famous public figure. =)

• At November 16, 2008, jackie sheeler wrote:

  wow -- i doubt if i could even *find* all the accounts that i have. i'm not too worried about exposure, though. that's already done and the search engines will keep you forever. i do think that if you are a younger person, though, still in college or likely to be applying for different jobs and so forth, that you have to be sensible about this.

  funny, when i saw the headline of your post i thought it was about eagle-eye cherry. i've never heard of this movie, not sure if i have the nerve to watch it now that i know what it's about. i DEFINITELY spend too much time online!

• At November 16, 2008, littlebro wrote:

  Being an IT grad, I too feel that we have spent too much time online ever since the Internet was first introduced to us.

  I guess the only way to control our time spent online is by fully utilizing one word.

  Moderation.

  :smile:

• At November 16, 2008, FH2o wrote:

  I need to watch the movie.

  I have nothing but photos on my blog and they're being "ripped off" everyday - so so my web stats reveals to me. But it doesn't really bother me that much as I never expect that this will not happen. And I really have no time or want to bother to track or be bothered if my photos are being used for whatever purposes. It's easy to get upset over a number of things in life.

  But that govt dept's excuse is pathetic.

  But I do agree that we all must do whatever we can to protect ourselves - whether on or off line.

• At November 17, 2008, keeyit wrote:

  I can't go away from computer and internet. I rely a lot on internet. That's our life being IT personnels.

• At November 17, 2008, vasi b wrote:

  I'm having like 30+ accounts and having problems remembering the pass. Of course i don't use all 30. In fact i think i'm using only 3.

• At November 21, 2008, kristarella wrote:

  Mmm, sometimes I'm concerned by this. I've tried to limit personal information on my blog and related accounts and I think I've been successful. However, if someone really wanted to find my real name and address they could.

  I guess that this is a risk we take in using the internet. We can be 'out of touch' and exclude ourselves entirely, or just read, but never interact, or take the risk and get in it.

  There is of course place for wisdom and I think minimising your accounts is a good idea. I would consider doing this. Although I like that I have almost complete monopoly of my screen name. ;)

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Speaking of the reunion.. I just realized this morning — on the day I am supposed to give a talk on the summary of activities carried out by the TRRG — that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about the powerpoint presentation that I was working on for the past few days! I had forgotten about it — I forgot to save the presentation into my flash drive and I forgot that I would be the one giving a talk today.

Before I left my house yesterday morning, I picked up my flash drive, and put it down because I didn’t think that I would be needing it. My sister asked whether I would be bringing my laptop, I said no, because I thought I wouldn’t need my laptop. Why would I bring a laptop to a volunteer reunion? Plus, I was also pretty sure that the hotel we were going to stay in didn’t have WiFi (because it’s located on Jalan Alor, LOL).

Anyway, upon realizing that I was *this close* to breaking down, I called my housemate, told her where I kept the spare key to my room, asked her to switch on my laptop and email me the presentation. And I tell you, THANK GOD for my housemate, because I have just successfully downloaded the presentation and burned it into a CD.

I am now in a cyber cafe in KLCC, spending the remaining 30 minutes of the hour because I am spending 12-freaking-ringgits to download and burn the presentation.

But I am not complaining. In fact, I am thankful. Very, very thankful.

9 Comments

• At November 5, 2008, Nicole Price wrote:

  Nice to have you back blogging and yes indeed. You are very lucky that you could get someone to email you the PPP. I hope that all went well.

• At November 5, 2008, Grace wrote:

  That was close and you are lucky indeed that someone saved the day! :)

• At November 6, 2008, Anonymous wrote:

  I am spending 12-freaking-ringgits

  Sorry if I sound stupid but what is this?

  Glad it all worked out well for you in the end!

• At November 7, 2008, Steve wrote:

  In regards to the ringgits, I believe that is the dollar in Malaysia.

  It is nice that everything worked out for you, I did that with a final once. Fortunately, I remembered before getting to school, so I just ended up being late.

• At November 7, 2008, Puay Aun wrote:

  Ha Ha Ha... If I only knew at the time... :-)

• At November 7, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Yeah, Steve is right. "Ringgit" is the Malaysian currency.

  1 US dollar is equivalent to 3.5 Malaysian ringgits.

• At November 7, 2008, silveraven wrote:

  *phew!*

  have lots of fun in kl! :)

• At November 10, 2008, jackie sheeler wrote:

  i hope the presentation went well. maybe you'll post a copy of it here for us to share?

  glad to learn i'm not the only absentminded person on the planet. this really sounds like something i would easily do. bravo to your housemate!

• At November 16, 2008, littlebro wrote:

  Housemate? Did u meant R* H** ?

  And being your ex-housemate, I didn't know you kept a spare key to your room until I read this :P

  Take care, dai kah cher..

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If you haven’t noticed it, I am involved with Pink for October. I was “recruited” to try to get more people involved in the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I thought contests would be one of the easiest ways to get people involved in something. So I started sourcing for sponsors and then I had to think about the kind of contests to hold. Seven of the eight a la photo hunt contests are closed, but all four of the “bonus contests” will be open until Oct 30th. So if you have some time, and would like to try your luck at winning any of these prizes, do check these contests out:

• Share your story and win a prize
• Design and win
• Breast cancer is …
• What have you done in conjunction with Pink for October?

I have also been very busy with my new job, which I love to bits. I’ve got a very fancy position — Research and Public Outreach Officer — that I think scares people. But basically, my job description covers the seas and the mountains, as they say. From tracking river terrapins in the Setiu River to handling the Turtle/Nest Adoptions that come in to assisting my Advisor in organizing our Annual TRRG Reunion on Nov 5th @ Aquaria KLCC, to promoting our Say “No” to turtle eggs campaign, to designing a database form using Microsoft Access (I have only done this once before).

I don’t know.. I hope I will have more time to blog after October, but my friend David @ PlanetThoughts is planning some kind of say no to plastic bag campaign, which I am also very interested in, but we shall see.

So what have YOU been doing in October? Did you go Pink for October? Did you participate in any of the P4O contests? Have you signed our Say “No” to turtle eggs petition? And if you’re a former TRRG volunteer, will you be attending our Annual Reunion?

13 Comments

• At October 27, 2008, Grace wrote:

  "covers the seas and the mountains" ... Sounds to me like a cool job! :biggrin:

• At October 28, 2008, jackie sheeler wrote:

  i just signed the petition, but i have no idea what a mykad number is much less do i have one, so i just wrote that in the field. hope that doesn't cause any problems with the petition.

  a little while ago i read a great post from caroline middlebrook about blogging when you're "in the flow" -- not trying to force yourself to a schedule, but blogging when you are inspired to blog. according to her, that's when you will write the best posts anyway, and that has been my experience as well. so for now, focus on the new job -- you gotta make them love you, right? there will be time for more blogging later, and the web ain't going nowhere!

• At October 28, 2008, Nicole Price wrote:

  Congratulations on the new job. I knew that something good will happen after you returned. All the very best in your new career.

• At October 29, 2008, Busby wrote:

  Congratulations on the new job, I think you a good writer and you can write a post more than 4 post in a month. :D

• At October 31, 2008, kouji wrote:

  ah. yup, i'm doing pink for october. last day today though.

  wasn't able to participate in any of the contests though. :(

• At November 1, 2008, Patrick wrote:

  I like that you are joining in on fighting the use of plastic bags. Keep up the great work.

• At November 2, 2008, Steve wrote:

  I can definitely relate to being too busy to blog. It can be hard to fit it in. I took a few weeks off last month, but just started back to working full time. I miss all of the time I had to work on my sites...

• At November 4, 2008, Jayce Ooi wrote:

  Me too busy with work until no time to blog. :right:

• At November 5, 2008, John Walters wrote:

  I have no time to blog. I also have major writer's block at the moment! It's awful. I have to write to get my blog up and running but I just find it so hard.

  John

• At November 5, 2008, cat wrote:

  I have no time to blog, have to do a lat of other things, studiing, gym, spending time with my girlfriend more than that she hates when I'm on my computer

• At November 6, 2008, Anonymous wrote:

  Hi Pelf, you certainly aren't alone.

  It's great that you've been doing things to help raise cancer awareness. It's common for bloggers to get too busy to blog, what matters most is that you are enjoying the thing you do which replaces this time.

  It seems like you are happy so far ;)

• At November 6, 2008, Alison Carroll wrote:

  I now what you mean about being so busy... but that is just how life is sometimes. Keep it up!

• At November 9, 2008, Danny Cooper wrote:

  Too busy to blog! There's always time to blog, whether you have to stay up all night, or wake up early. Make it happen!

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POVERTY is one of those words that we often associate with some South African countries. It brings an image of some skinny-starving children in some villages on a faraway desert. It reminds us to finish our food and vegetables however much we dislike them, because somewhere far away, somebody’s going to bed hungry.

POVERTY is one of those words that really does not mean anything to us because we are such fortunate people.

But that shouldn’t stop us from doing something. If you’re looking for some ideas on what YOU, as an individual can do to stop poverty, here’s a list of 88 ways to do something about poverty. Go on and pick something from the list and do it. Or you could think about something new and add it onto the list.

Whatever it is, just do something. Because by taking action, some kids will have some food tonight before they go to bed.

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• At October 15, 2008, Nicole Price wrote:

  Yes. Each of us can indeed do something to alleviate poverty. My own recommendation however is to choose something that enables people rather than just finance something. Teaching someone to fish rather than feeding him fish!

• At October 15, 2008, pelf wrote:

  You are right, Nicole! I am also a subscriber of that fishing theory :D

• At October 15, 2008, steve wrote:

  I like the list, it has a lot of good ideas on it that aren't really all that hard, but go a long way to helping poverty.

  I think, and you kind of touched on this, that #72 is very true. For many people something isn't real unless they see it. Many don't have to see what poverty looks like, so it is easy for them to ignore.

  Understanding this common human nature is key to getting people involved. Another good one was being homeless for a day, which would be great, because people would be able to have a much more personal understanding of what poverty really is.

• At October 15, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Yes Steve, I think being homeless in a day will kind of open up our eyes to what it feels to be homeless, to be in the shoes of the homeless people we see on the streets.

  But then again, what is more important than the experience is what we do AFTER.

• At October 15, 2008, steve wrote:

  You're right Pelf. I imagine there would be a lot of people that the experience of being homeless would only make them extremely thankful for what they had, rather than more compassionate towards those that are homeless. Mores the pity...

• At October 15, 2008, Michael Martin wrote:

  Well said Pelf. We really are fortunate, and because we've been that way all our lives, it can be hard to imagine what it would be like not to be. But that's no excuse for us. We have to try, and we have to help more people get to live the sorts of lives we're lucky enough to live. :)

• At October 15, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Thanks, Michael! :blush:

• At October 15, 2008, John Hunter wrote:

  Great post. I really like helping by providing a helping hand to people to let them improve their lives. Two of my favorite tools for helping that progress along are Kiva, Trickle Up and many other great microfinancing organizations help too.

• At October 16, 2008, kouji wrote:

  i love kiva. :) am currently unable to make a donation though, so i put up its banner on my blog, as well as that of freerice (rice donation via gameplay) and goodsearch (donation per search).

  it's great that you're participating in blog action day. :)

• At October 16, 2008, pelf wrote:

  Hi John, I didn't know about Trickle Up, so thanks for sharing that! :D

• At October 16, 2008, pelf wrote:

  I like Kiva's concept too, kouji. I think it's brilliant, and it doesn't require a huge capital, plus we get to help somebody start their own business, and be their own bosses! :)

• At October 16, 2008, Norhafidz wrote:

  great post and well said Pelf, I heard about this poverty post on blog action day. Thanks for sharing ! :smile:

• At October 18, 2008, Busby wrote:

  it’s great that you’re participating in blog action day. At least we have to try and help more people

• At October 19, 2008, kouji wrote:

  and that business can maybe later hire employees, and help make a community more active. it's a great idea. :)

• At October 26, 2008, jackie sheeler wrote:

  very happy to have stumbled across this blog. i also participated in blog action day -- i think it's a great way of doing what we used to call "consciousness raising" using current online tools

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