Get Your Good On at SXSW2010

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-08-18 10:23:00 UTC
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The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival brings together thousands of techies for a week of exploring new software, new platforms, and new ideas. This year, social entrepreneurs are crashing the party.

The bloggers at Social Edge have put together a great list of proposed panels relevant for social innovators. These panel descriptions all come from SXSW's new "Panel Picker," a tool that allows SXSW attendees to actually have a say in what discussions will happen at the conference.

Across the forty-odd workshops the Social Edgers list, there are some interesting themes:

  • The impact of social media on nonprofit stakeholder engagement - As one might expect, there are a number of panels designed to educate nonprofits on how to better use social media to better leverage their supporters

  • Crowdsourced everything - Related to the above, there is a strong emphasis in a number of workshops on separating fact from fiction to really understand the potential for crowdsourcing funding and information.

  • Technology as a vehicle for developing world transformation - There are a number of panels about how programming is becoming a vehicle for particularly young people in the developing world to create opportunities for themselves.

  • The importance of story-telling - A number of the proposed conversations are about the vital importance of using stories to engage new audiences in social change work.

To check out the full list of relevant social innovation themed panels, visit Social Edge or go to the Panel Picker to vote for your favorites.

(photo credit: Rhodesign)

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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