About Political Gastronomica
Political Gastronomica is a discourse on technology and online activism - how the marketplace of governing and ideas is improving with the efficiencies of the Internet.
Author Sanford Dickert, former CTO of John Kerry for President Campaign, works with political campaigns, non-profits and private companies from the Fortune 500 to startups.
Dickert leverages online community engagement techniques and technical vision for brand and message management through effective application of social media and organizational processes.
Monthly Archives: March 2007
EPFs – and my experience in the early 90s
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I was a newly minted engineer from Purdue, seeking jobs in the engineering world. I was a CS/EE and was talking to a number of companies. One of my trips to a company was to Honeywell in Minneapolis where I was introduced to the Advanced Weapons Group. I spent the day with one of the engineers who offered me a glimpse into two new weapons they were developing for the US Government and how they needed a good controls engineer to work on them. While I forgot the first one, the second one is quite familiar… Continue reading
Posted in Personal Thoughts
Tagged EFPs, Explosively Formed Penetrators
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Florida moving on up…
Reading the New York Times, I saw the following article on Florida’s work on moving the date of their primary: Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2008
Tagged Campaign 2008, Florida Primary, Jeremy Ring
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How to improve SEO/SEM without paying a dime!
The inspiration comes from a conversation with my friend Howard Greenstein, CEO of Social Media Club who just came from a lecture where he was a panelist on SEO/SEM. Funnily enough, what he told me has been second nature to so many sites that most people forget, and do not think to improve once they have it. So, to help in the discussion, let me give you my quick-and-dirty list of “to-dos” for improving SEO/SEM. Continue reading
Posted in eCampaigning
Tagged SEM, SEO
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Gotta love the “New York Post”
Hey – finally, an upside to the melting ice caps! Easier for the tankers to get more oil to us and allow us to lower the price on oil (yeah, right!). Can someone please tell the editors at the NYPost that they need to get their priorities straight? I mean, really, a report on the positive effects of global warming? Well, it was a warm winter this year – and I throughly enjoyed the late snow this weekend in New York City. Did the Groundhog see his shadow this year? Continue reading