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.
Category Archives: Political Tech
Personal Democracy Forum – May 15th
This year, the Personal Democracy Forum is being held in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center.
This year, the keynote speaker is Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, candidate for Governor of New York with Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas signing their book, “Crashing the Gate”. Continue reading
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Movable Type 3.2 – Excellent
This weekend, I spent some time on two client’s blogs – and spent far too much time working with Movable Type 3.2. With this version, I can confidentally say that this product is incredibly powerful, easy to implement (once you have a handle on the MT APIs and CSS), and a joy to use. Continue reading
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Civicspace moves to Compumentor
Just got a couple of press releases from Zack Rosen in the past seven days – first, announcing the launch of the alpha version of the hosted version of Civicspace (see them at www.civicspacelabs.org). Then, today, Zack announced the “fiscal … Continue reading
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Process makes perfect
I offer the following advice: do not be impressed with showy design and flashy technology. Good design is incredibly important, cost is paramount – but performance on key metrics matters most. Continue reading
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TXTmessaging – lesson from abroad?
One lesson from the 2004 campaign that seemed to resonate was the concept that text messaging – those little 160 character messages people get on their cell phones – was not a very effective mechanism for the campaigns. At ETCon … Continue reading
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