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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. For a primer on Facebook’s newsfeed, watch this video: The fact is, people will always take precedent over Pages and organic, unpaid content. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. to their friends.

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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

Have Fun - Do Good

You may have seen The Girl Effect videos. Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. If you haven't, check them out at GirlEffect.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My talk this week at Stanford was videoed and placed on the EE380 class website. This is based on a talk I gave in Sri Lanka last year at the University of Peradeniya, but with a heavier technology component given the engineering audience. Technology and Human Rights Talk.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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Britt Bravo: On your website, you have several videos and on one of them you said that the reason that Prevent Human Trafficking exists is to help people come to terms with the real facts on trafficking and the larger, bigger issues around this iss ue. Prevent Human Trafficking's video blog. Christina is in the pink shirt.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. Tweets and highlights from this event on Twitter at #AITech. Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations.

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