If you have visited Austin, Texas you may recall that we love to talk about Austin. The first session I attended at SXSW Interactive was 'Why Austin is the Killer App' moderated by Heather McKissick and Bijoy Goswami the founders of Austin Equation . Austin Equation is trying to determine the ingredients that make Austin so extraordinary and the equation they have come up with is Experience + Community = Scene. Author: Joey Martin There is something special about this town.

It’s less than 24 hours until the masses start filling the Austin Convention Center for one of the biggest and best Interactive conferences of the year: South By Southwest . My favorite part of SXSW in recent years is the flood of nonprofit and socially conscious topics, speakers and movements that are becoming more prevalent on the line-up. We'll also talk about how you can get sizeable online grants and free/discounted help from key professionals.” Author: Jordan Viator And for anyone attending the event and looking for some insight into how to get in on

As it says on our home page , we want to help mindful organizations affect social change – both charities and companies. including people like Robert Scoble and more, to look at the mission and goals of this charity and help us come up with some amazing ideas? that is hungry for help but short on dollars. Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company.