Next Steps with freelender.org?

Firstly, Freelending Community Interest Company is not an oxymoron.

 "The Lend-It-All Man" (co-founder of freelender.org and co-director of ) now recommends www.streetbank.com to open to a world of generosity. It starts with you sharing.

Also consider taking next steps with ecomodo.com (and raise money for charities from renting out your less-frequently used stuff) or, if you have stuff to give away too then try www.streetbank.com as well as the others reported on this sharing developers blog:

Mark Boyle's Moneyless Man; Oliver James' Affluenza & another book

A YouTube video found about 3 key books on Materialism and how valuable it is to give it up:

Mark Boyle's Moneyless Man; Oliver James' Affluenza & Tim Kasser's 'The High Price of Materialism'.

Freelender friend since Jan 2008, Mark Boyle at TED expo rather than UK Aware

On Friday I tweeted as follows:
The Moneyless Man didn't make it but I have his ticket. Lend-It-All-Man is here; is lend-it-all woman? #ukaware @gifteconomics @freelender
http://www.twitter.com/paulcrosland
I'll let Mark off this time! Only because he was at TEDxOPorto:

UK Aware 2011 conference produced interviews with The Borrowers etc

The Borrowers -Lynn Bunniss, Managing Director talks to Paul Crosland, Freelending CIC; in the midst of which, Sam from www.streetbank.com turned up.
NB www.ecomodo.com were also at the UK Aware exhibition; some of us will next be at the Bristol UK Aware event in June -www.ukaware.com

To all directors etc of sharing websites

-Invitation to dinner on March 26th -near UK Aware 2011 conference:

Dear Sam from Streetbank & fellow key campaigners generating a more sharing future,

I'm prompted by Cat Fletcher of Freegle to invite you all to a 2nd annual dinner out (co-inciding with the UK Aware Ethical Living event) in London on Saturday 26th March; my second preference being Friday 25th March.(What's your preference?)

Cat writes:

I take days off to get to various conferences and events but all in all it is relentless, I am working the weekend of UKAware but I guess I could come up to London after work and have a meal, it would be great to see you and talk...maybe you can rope in some others to join us (if you'll be at UKAware during the day)...food for thought! cat x

  Videos about building-trust in communities through freelending, freecycling, peer-to-peer renting etc:

facebook app idea -I offer and I want

Like "6 degrees of separation", a test of Facebook might be how many possessions does someone need to offer on average before a want is met. Perhaps it's 5, for example. Are you willing to offer 5 things to your facebook friends for every want you have?
Instead of just clicking on Amazon or ebay, why not build with your friends the inventory of what you are wanting, and preface this with an inventory of what you are offering.
By building the inventory of a database of what you are offering & making requests for what you want, I'm  confident that you and your friends will save money and get more connected.

Just as Ecomodo had their biggest publicity breakthrough after they offered an iPad on-line, when making your offers, try stretching yourself in terms of offering things that are valuable and likely to be wanted. Choose popular items that you could do without for a few days or more eg:

• a car
• a beachhut
• an Amazon kindle
• an iphone
• best-selling DVDs or books 
• a range of tools and sporting/camping goods.

All of the above are available on freelender.org by the way; out of the car, beachhut, kindle, and iphone list, it's amazing to me that only the iphone -bought by Freelending CIC benefactors- has been borrowed so far!

If friends on facebook were aware of this perhaps this would change!

Until the facebook app is built by you or someone else, why not just use ecomodo.com for listing your wanted items and streetbank.com for posting your offers oin facebook and available to the other 6000 members of streetbank?