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
Are you prepping for 2008? 2012?
Funny thing – coming away from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York this week, there is a lot of discussion about what people thought were good tactics and bad ideas during the conference sessions. But the most intriguing discussions … Continue reading
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Participatory Democracy or Integrated Marketing?
On my way to the airport on Friday, I got a telephone call from Friends of Kerry. It had been some time since I had received a telephone call from the campaign – and I was surprised to get a … Continue reading
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Tagged integrated marketing, participatory democracy
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DNC Tech: Open-Source for real?
After all of the hub-bub is done and the Governor is elected as the new DNC Chair – Gov. Dean is going to be inundated with all sorts of issues that need to be addressed: how to work with the … Continue reading
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Databases are the 2004 Engine
Parties Are Waging Battle of the Databases (washingtonpost.com) Funny thing about this article – is that the power of databases were understood by the RNC, but in the Dems world – it took a lot longer and a lot more … Continue reading
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