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.
Author Archives: Sanford
Labour, Lib Dems, Tories – how do they stack up?
Careful care and feeding of the list is the way to grow it for future volunteers and funds in the elections ahead. Continue reading
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More on Boris Weisfeiler
Olga and Anna plan to meet with President Bachelet and have been successful in generating some news coverage (See Centre Daily and Santiago Times). Continue reading
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Free Boris Weisfeiler
Interestingly enough, after twenty years of uncertainty and frustration, the Weisfeiler family might finally get the information they have dearly sought after these many years with a personal meeting with the new President Michelle Bachelet this coming week. But they need our help to get Senators and Representatives to sign on to a letter to show the US Congress’ support for closing out this case. 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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Tagged Civicspace, Compumentor
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SXSW – Revenge of the Blogs: Election 2008
Listening in on the SXSW conference with Henry Copeland from blogAds moderating. At the conference, Marcos (from DailyKos), Michael (from redstate.org) and Ruby (from NetCentricCampaigns) are discussing the impact of blogs in the coming elections. Continue reading
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