One of the things I have been pondering this week, is the ability of web 2.0 social networks to empower and create abundance that uplifts the entire community as a whole, and increases understanding between communities globally, by creating deeper individual connections between members. These individual connections stregthen the group as a whole, and radiate outward to other communities members touch. 

Taking this concept into this reality, a non-profit organization called Kiva is leveraging social Networking, mobile storytelling with cameraphones, and the full abundence mindset of web 2.0 potential to create microlending to microbusinesses as Social Entrepreneurs.

Kiva is using a social network to connect small (microsmall) business owners in rural and underdeveloped areas of the World with microlenders who are willing to lend $25 or more at a time to assist in creating or expanding their business. Kiva helps people in need of assistance through local non-profits establish a profile on their network describing their business with photos, update messages, video etc... as available, so that microlenders on the network can view their profile and offer loans from $25.

If it sound micro, think again. Kiva has loaned $26 million in unsecured loans, with 99.9% full repayment.

The bigger view is that Kiva has tuned into web 2.0 as a platform for abundance within it's community, and communities worldwide through the power of it's network. and your network, the one you are co-creating here, is also a platform for abundance.

The individuals who are gathering here are some of the brightest minds and the strongest hearts, with the will to accomplish the endeavor of choice. So my offering to all of you in this wee hour of 3am, is to keep the awareness within you that Russell and Charles have built a beautiful ship for this journey, with the best and brightest on board and boarding. So unpack, decorate your cabins, and begin to chart the voyage together.