"At Twitter, Del Harvey works to ensure user safety and security, balancing Twitter's wide-open spaces against spammers, harassers and worse, to create a workable policy that lets the tweets flow. Prior to joining the booming social media site, she spent five years as the law enforcement liaison for a group fighting child exploitation, where she worked with agencies ranging from local police departments to the FBI, US Marshals and the Secret Service.

As Twitter grows, its ever inventive users (who famously came up with many of its key features by themselves) are finding ever new ways to overshare, offend and pick on others. Harvey and team's challenge is to weed out the worst while keeping the site feeling like a safe place to have this new kind of conversation we're all having there now." (TED)

View the entire presentation below;

sources;
1) TED.com; http://www.ted.com/talks/del_harvey_the_strangeness_of_scale_at_twitter

The African First Ladies summit goal is to empower women in African nations, and throughout the world.  This summit took place last July.

Building on the leadership and commitment of President and Mrs. Bush in Africa, the George W. Bush Institute, in partnership with ExxonMobil, is convening an African First Ladies Summit, Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa. The Summit emphasizes effective investments in women that lead to greater stability and prosperity in countries. Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa highlights the critical role First Ladies play as advocates for women and girls, spotlights success stories and best practices, and discusses public-private partnerships that lead to sustainable results.  (Bushcenter.org)

Building on the leadership and commitment of President and Mrs. Bush in Africa, the George W. Bush Institute, in partnership with ExxonMobil, is convening an African First Ladies Summit,Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa. The Summit emphasizes effective investments in women that lead to greater stability and prosperity in countries. Investing in Women: Strengthening Africa highlights the critical role First Ladies play as advocates for women and girls, spotlights success stories and best practices, and discusses public-private partnerships that lead to sustainable results. 

We also would like to thank Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon foundation.  Learn more about how this company impacts women throughout the world - click here to visit their website. 

sources;
1) http://www.bushcenter.org/african-first-ladies-summit/networking-village
2) http://pinkribbonredribbon.org/about-cervical-breast-cancer/

Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in grad school at Stanford in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 started working on a search technology based on a new idea: that relevant results come from context. Their technology analyzed the number of times a given website was linked to by other sites — assuming that the more links, the more relevant the site — and ranked sites accordingly. In 1998, they opened Google in a garage office in Menlo Park. In 1999, their software left beta and started its steady rise to web domination.

Beyond the company's ubiquitous search, including AdSense/AdWords, Google Maps, Google Earth, and the mighty Gmail. In 2011, Page returned to his original role as chief executive officer. He now leads Google with high aims and big thinking, and finds time to devote to his projects like Google X, the idea lab for the out-there experiments that keep Google pushing the limits. (TED)

Watch the entire video below;

by Stephanie Anderson

The (APTE) Alleviating Poverty Through Entrepreneurship takes place today at the Wexner Center For The Arts on the Ohio State University Campus in Columbus, Ohio.  APTE a student-led community development organization at the Ohio State University. Our annual Summit is the largest, free, student-run social entrepreneurship conference in the midwest.  Hosted on the campus of the Ohio State University, we aim to work with the Columbus community to facilitate social enterprise development. 

Veronica D'Souza
+ Co-Founder of Ruby Cup, a for-profit social business that provides healthy, high-quality, and long-lasting menstrual cups for women and girls in Kenya and is the only menstrual cup company that specializes in serving the ‘Base of the Pyramid’. Ruby Cups are distributed and sold through a network of female entrepreneurs in order to create local employment and increase education. Veronica studied International Business and Politics with a minor in Sustainable Business at Copenhagen Business School and studied Sustainable Business Operations and Strategies at Columbia Business School. She is a selected United World College student (IT), Humanity In Action Senior Fellow (NYC), and has been invited to speak at several international events such as UN future Earth Conference (Japan), and SoCap 2012 (US).

Sonja Nelson-Jones
+ Founder & CEO of The Firm Development Group, a Columbus-based, community-focused organization established to provide opportunities for individuals to obtain and maintain self-sufficiency. She studied Accounting Information Systems and Business Administration and has helped provide developmental support and resources to over 3,000 people in the Central Ohio area. Sonja is also a graduate of the United Way of Central Ohio - Project Diversity Leadership program.

Jessica Mayberry
+ Founding Director at Video Volunteers, an initiative working in India to empower marginalized communities through the use of media. Prior to her work with Video Volunteers, Jessica worked in television in NY at Court TV, the Fox News Channel, and CNN. She spent a year training rural Indian women in filmmaking as a W.J. Clinton Fellow of the American India Foundation and has been selected as an Echoing Green fellow, TED fellow, and was named Architect of the Future by the Waldzell Institute of Austria in 2009. Jessica received her BA in Modern History and Modern Languages from Oxford University. 

Neil Bellefeuille
+ Founder and CEO of The Paradigm Project, a social enterprise working to create sustainable social, economic, and environmental value within developing world communities by building last-mile distribution networks and providing socially beneficial products to the base of the pyramid. Prior to The Paradigm Project, Neil worked as a partner and Senior Strategist at Bulldog Drummond, a management and brand consultancy firm. 

Elizabeth Sanders, PhD
+ Founder of MakeTools, a company that explores new spaces in the emerging design landscapes. She is a visionary in pre-design research, having introduced many of the tools, techniques and methods being used today to drive and/or inspire design from a human-centered perspective. Liz has practiced co-designing across all the design disciplines. Her current focus is on bringing participatory, human-centered design thinking and co-creation practices to the challenges we face for the future. Liz speaks about and offers learning experiences in human-centered design research and innovation for clients, colleagues and students around the world. She has a Ph.D. in Experimental and Quantitative Psychology and a B.A. in both Psychology and in Anthropology.

Marika Clark
+ Marika is principal of SOSHL Studio, a firm dedicated to creating social impact through architecture and design, based in Cleveland, Ohio.  Marika works closely with the Nike Foundation in Ethiopia and Nigeria, designing innovative solutions around safe spaces for adolescent girls. 

From 2007 to 2010, Marika was Co-Founder and Managing Director of MASS Design Group, an architectural nonprofit designing well-built environments that aid in the reduction of global poverty. Marika was a lead designer on the Butaro Hospital project in northern Rwanda in collaboration with Partners in Health, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, and the Rwandan Ministry of Health, and lived on-site in 2008 developing the designs and overseeing construction.

Marika has been the recipient of many awards for her work.  She received a US National Commission for UNESCO Traveling Fellowship in 2008, was an invited Ideas Scholar at the Aspen Institute in 2009, and was selected for the Next City Vanguard in 2012.

Marika received her BA in Urban Studies from Brown University, and her Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where her graduate thesis under advisors Jacques Herzog and Pierre DeMeuron focused on women's use of public space in Cairo, Egypt. In 2011 she served in the first class of global residents at IDEO.org, working on projects in the education, health, and sanitation sectors in the United States and Ghana.

Lindsay Stradley
+ The CEO and Co-Founder of Sanergy, a social enterprise building sustainable sanitation in Africa's urban slums. Previously, Lindsay worked at Google in sales operations and after teaching high school math in New Orleans as a Teach For America Corps Member, served as the founding Assistant School Director of the New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Lindsay has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Yale University. 

Get updates from today's APTE Summit, from noon to 5:00pm, on their Twitter account here []

source; https://apte-summit.squarespace.com/#nav

On November 9th, 2007, 
Christoph Rehage (33), was born in Hanover, Germany.  He did a high school exchange program in the United States, civil service in Frankfurt, and one year in Paris, where he spent flipping burgers at McDonalds and guarding the Musée du Louvre.  A spontaneous walk home from France was a pleasant diversion before undertaking Chinese studies in Munich. After the intermediate exams, he did two more years of language and cinematography in Beijing, then decided to walk home from there, too.  He documented this journey for all of us to view in his book "The Longest Way"

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The New York Knicks organization mentioned that they would be releasing a huge secret announcement, but the cat was already out of the bag.  They say that leadership must start from the top, and this couldn't be more than the truth.  Phil Jackson brings to the table 11 coaching NBA Championships - 6 with the Chicago Bulls and 5 with the Los Angeles Lakers.  He was a player on the 1973 Championship team with the New York Knicks.   

With issues from coaching, prospecting, and many more, it was evident that this is a move the Knicks had to make.  Their record is 27-40, and it looks like they have no chance of making the playoffs.

Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson reached out to Phil, but going back to LA was not what he wanted.  The press conference was held at Madison Square Garden, and the press was in full attendance! 

Phil Jackson, joined with Clyde Frazier, mentioned that his goal is to create a culture where the players can succeed.  He mentioned during the press conference that Mitch Kupchak of the Los Angeles Lakers reached out to him and congratulated him on his new position.  Phil mentioned during the press conference that it is a great feeling to come back to the city where it all started for him.  James L. Dolan, the Chairman of the Knicks admitted that he felt out of his element trying to manage the basketball side of things, as he looked more than relieved that those duties were no longer on his shoulders.  Dolan actually did not take the credit for bringing Phil Jackson to New York, as he thanked Irving Azoff for the move, mentioning that the process started back in December.  Phil Jackson mentioned that his goal is to create a culture where the players can succeed. 

How long will it take before the Knicks make it back to the promise land?  It's been over 40 years since they won an NBA Championship.  Now that the leadership is in place and the structure is there, it is exciting to see where the New York Knicks will go from here!

Imanuel Larcher

Lance Bass showed his support for Health Care reform earlier this week, as he visited The White House.  You can enroll on HealthCare.gov

President Obama stopped by the set of 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis, with  Healthcare.gov being the main purpose for the President's visit.  

Watch the full interview from FunnyOrDie.com by clicking this link

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Newsletter from Secretary Tom Perez,
Department of Labor

Several weeks ago, I met Semethia and Anna.

Semethia's a 36-year-old single mom. Her son hopes to go to college one day. Her daughter wants to take gymnastics lessons. But with a service job that pays just $8.25 an hour, Semethia relies on food stamps and help from friends and family just to keep food on the table -- much less build the future she'd like for her kids.

Anna works as a tip server at two local D.C. restaurants. She doesn't yet have to support a family, but she still struggles to make ends meet when she's relying on tips to get by -- and she sees the tough decisions her colleagues make every day. One of her coworkers recently missed her son's birthday party in order to cover a shift -- that's how badly she needed the money to support her family.

You see, when we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

And right now, millions of them are trying to do that on just $7.25 an hour.

We can change that. We can raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, we can do it right now, and we should. If you agree that it's high time we do -- that America's workers deserve a raise -- then add your name right here.

The President said this in his State of the Union, and we can't lose track of it: Here in America, no one working full-time should have to raise a family in poverty.

Think about that for a second: Right now, around the country, there are parents who, despite working full-time jobs, are living below the poverty line. We're better than that.

(Let your voice be heard! click on the photo above to sign.)

This is the right thing to do for our workers, and it's the right thing to do for our economy. If you agree, then say so here: It's time to raise the federal minimum wage.

Thank you,

Tom

Secretary Tom Perez
Department of Labor

By: Imanuel Larcher 
In a report released today, the American Public Transportation Association, "in 2013 Americans took 10.7 billion trips on public transportation, which is the highest annual public transit ridership number in 57 years." 

That's right, the highest since 1956!  -- before the internet boom, before computers, before SXSW started in Austin, Texas, before the Civil Rights movement, and even before some of our parents were born!  

This report today has raised questions in many people's minds.  I believe that this report is pretty accurate because financially speaking, it makes more sense.  For most young adults who do not have a parent figure looking over them financially, they are having to account for more bills than the previous generation - i.e; paying out of pocket for college, cell phone bills, additional monthly service charges including health care, living expenses, clothing, and more! 

Adding a car payment, insurance, and gas, can be an additional $400 - $800 a month, not to mention the bumps in the road that occurs when you do own a car.  New tires, replacing parts, it can get pretty pricey.  Not to mention public transportation, especially in large cities, can save you more time than getting around.  For those who fall behind due to economic difficulties, paying an additional insurance or interest on tickets (some states charge a daily fee if your car is towed), while juggling other life expenses, is simply unrealistic.  No wonder why companies like Car2Go and Lyft are growing because they are identifying this need.  

You can read the full report from APTA by clicking this link

Columbus, Ohio is a place that the YourInfoDaily.com team has grown to love.  The city is a cultural melting point and the lifestyle shows it.  From cuisine, athletics, education, and more - Columbus has a little bit of it all!  
 
Modern Columbus has emerged as a technologically sophisticated city. It is home to the world's largest private research and development foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute and Ohio State University, the nation's third largest campus.  

Along with Ohio State University, the city is home to several other institutions of higher learning including Columbus State Community College, Columbus College of Art and Design and Franklin University. Annual festivities in Columbus include the Ohio State Fair, one of the largest state fairs in the country, as well as the Columbus Arts Festival and the Jazz and Ribs Festival, both of which occur on the downtown riverfront. (Forbes)

It was a pleasure to come across this article from Amy Taylor on her blog;

(click the image above to view the entire article)

Experience Columbus is a guide to the city that includes hotels, shopping, restaurants, and the arts. They also provide a calendar of events in the city!

As the new year begins, we have been had times of celebration throughout the world with sports (Olympics and Superbowl), music (Grammys), and film (Oscars), however, we must all be conscious of the World that we live in.  Countries like Venezuela and Ukraine are in the middle of an ugly fight, stemming from economic inequality.  

Venezuela is a country very much built on its rich resources, mainly oil.  It appears that throughout time, the leaders of Venezuela and business interest have dominated this market, neglecting the development of agriculture.  

National Geographic recently described situation, "Venezuela's economy is unraveling—and so is the confidence of the country's hard-hit population. Soaring crime, high inflation, and a plummeting living standard have sparked weeks of protest in Caracas and other cities."

The citizens of the country feel so passionate about having their voices and opinions heard, that despite the festive Carnival season in the country, thousands still took to the Capital of the city to protest (AlJazeera). 

As other countries begin to come up with a plan of action in helping Venezuela, it's closest ally, Cuba, is working on ways to find a peaceful resolution to the violent protests (ft.com)  Our thoughts and prayers are for those in Venezuela.