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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

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Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup Blog

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. She is a poet, an environmental activist, and a nonprofit management expert with a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup Blog

It is mined mainly in Chile and there are also large deposits in Bolivia. Lithium-ion batteries are actually pretty benign environmentally. EPA classifies them as non-hazardous waste, but lithium is an alkalai metal that is flammable.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before her time in Sacramento she worked for environmental NGOs throughout Arizona, California, and Bolivia. Isabella received her B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Latin American Studies and her M.S. in Environmental Management with a concentration in Water Management, both from the University of San Francisco.

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Facebook Linked In Twitter Home About Home links for 2006-11-28 links for 2006-11-28 Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 08:23 Written by Steve Tuesday, 28 November 2006 08:23 Guardian Unlimited | Richard Gott: Latin America is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite The political movements and protests sweeping the continent (..)

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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

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Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. This year’s topic was poverty so See3 decided to host a screening of the Dollar A Day film series released by GlobalDevelopmentMatters.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

You can just go on there and you can be talking immediately to women in Bolivia, and in Nepal, and drawing strength, courage, and support from them, and vice versa. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. What they're coming up with, what they're saying, and how they're organizing. It's just accessible.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We brought a group of ten environmental justice lawyers from throughout North America to work in partnership with grassroots women leaders in Bolivia, with the focus on sustainable agriculture and food security issues.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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It is very different to interview sex workers who have been trafficked in Phnom Penh, than to interview women who are doing knitting in Bolivia. It is easily the most difficult of the books that I have done.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request.

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