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

Connection Cafe

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share. Invite subscribers to join the conversation by commenting on that post. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak.

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

Tech Soup

It is mined mainly in Chile and there are also large deposits in Bolivia. Share your thoughts in the comments below. Lithium-ion batteries are actually pretty benign environmentally. EPA classifies them as non-hazardous waste, but lithium is an alkalai metal that is flammable. How well do you maintain your mobile batteries?

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

Since that day, I get those kinds of comments all the time, and it is those women, their strength, and their courage, that is such a fuel for me, and makes it so exciting. 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.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

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. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that. 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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