Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. This post was originally published on The Huffington Post.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The first ever SXSW Eco is taking place October 4-6 in Austin, TX. Our Nicole Levins is on the scene and she’ll send live updates on Twitter @nature_org and will update this blog throughout the week.
 

Day 3:  October 6, 6:30 pm CT

The weekly digest has been on an unintentional hiatus… I have been helping out on some exciting projects here including our forthcoming Video Advocacy Online Toolkit and planning some outreach for our soon-to-be published report on current challenges and opportunities for human rights video.

I had the great pleasure of attending my first South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference last year – and in the past few years, I've been following the growing number of amazing learning opportunities at the conference for folks in the nonprofit space. SXSW Interactive is no longer just a place for hard-core techies, but an opportunity for those of us who are enthusiastic and passionate about new technologies and applying them in a variety of sectors.

It’s SXSW Panel Picker Time! Having trouble sorting through them all? We have you covered, here’s our top picks from the Greater Good track. Vote and comment please!

 “Giving is a good business strategy.

Austin, Texas (CNN) — “Historically, the tech industry has not been especially hospitable to women. In 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor released a list of the 20 leading occupations of employed women. None of them was in the technical field. That same year, only 3% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies were women, [...]

As part of the new SXSWedu program – a two-day series of panels on education and technology hosted by the Texas Education Agency and South by Southwest – Girlstart Executive Director Tamara Hudgins will participate in a panel specifically geared to addressing issues around STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education for girls. The panel, [...]

Thanks to all of you who voted, the band Metric won the Pepsi Refresh SXSW Challenge. As a result, Women's Funding Network will receive a $100,000 grant toward the national expansion of A FUTURE. NOT A PAST., a campaign to stop the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in the United States! Women's Funding Network is grateful to Metric and the Pepsi Refresh Project for making this possible.