The Microfinance Conversation on Twitter
Published by Drew Meyers, Editor | 31 May 2009 at 05:15 pm
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time with Twitter lately (you can follow me here), largely for my day job at Zillow.com to communicate with the active community of real estate agents. However, part of my personal time on Twitter is now spent following the microfinance conversation and networking with others passionate about the subject. Though I don’t tweet too often about microfinance myself, I do re-tweet many of the interesting microfinance tweets to my followers. Every day, it seems there is someone new talking about microfinance that shows up in my tweetdeck filter for “microfinance”, which is simply fantastic to see. Here are a few of the more active microfinance tweeters that I follow:
- Microfinance – this account simply auto-tweets activity from Kiva, but worth following to get a feel for the amount of activity on Kiva
- SeaMoMicro – I know Ryan Calkins from SeaMo in real life (we’re both in Seattle) and he is certainly one of the more active tweeters. Definitely worth following.
- Kiva – The staff at Kiva.org posts updates here
- Casey Wilson – The CEO and co-founder of Wokai.org (a lending platform Jerry first covered in October) is a fairly active tweeter. I had the chance to meet her a couple weeks ago, and she’s focused on bringing microfinace to China in a large way
- bhalchander
- mfinsights
- MFIConnect
Of course, this is only scratching the surface of those discussing microfinance on twitter. Who else is tweeting about microfinance that you follow?
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MFIConnect on 31 May 2009 at 10:16 pm #
I’d ad these all stars to the list:
http://twitter.com/HOPEtweets
http://twitter.com/GoMicrofinance
ERowe on 01 Jun 2009 at 8:13 am #
Unitus is another great organization tweeting about their microfinance work: http://twitter.com/unitus
Ryan Calkins on 01 Jun 2009 at 11:19 am #
Thanks, Drew! I’m tweeting this.
Ryan (aka @seamomicro)
Edward Cable on 01 Jun 2009 at 11:35 am #
Great Post! Thanks for bringing to light the growing presence of microfinance on Twitter.
Two other organizations to follow that have recently started to be quite active on the Twitter front
Mifos – tweeting about microfinance, technology, open source and the convergence of all three.
http://twitter.com/mifos
Grameen Foundation – combining the power of microfinance, technology and innovative solutions to defeat global poverty
http://twitter.com/Grameen_Fdn
Jasmin Tragas on 01 Jun 2009 at 4:46 pm #
Hi Drew! Thanks for the post. I tweet occasionally about microfinance as I volunteer for Opportunity International Australia – this month is my last month raising funds for a Trust Group in the Philippines. You can follow me @wonderwebby also you can follow @optinnow
Drew Meyers on 01 Jun 2009 at 7:29 pm #
Thanks for the comments everyone! Anyone else we should all be following?
Ruth-Anne Renaud on 05 Jun 2009 at 12:22 pm #
Drew – thanks for posting twitter recommendations on microfinance orgs and people working in this space. It is a great way to continue to learn from one another. I lead our interactive marketing team efforts for http://www.OptINnow.org; and also focus on highlighting the benefits that microfinance provides for women and girls. Folks are welcome to follow me at @rarenaud. In addition – I enjoy following @zyozyfounder. He posts thought provoking comments and great links to articles/info on microfinance.
Arthi on 09 Jun 2009 at 1:07 am #
Please add us to your follow list on twitter. RangDe is a micro lending portal based out of Chennai in India. We invite individual investors to be a part of our movement.
Arthi on 09 Jun 2009 at 1:07 am #
You can follow us @rangde