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
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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IPDI “Politics Online” Lessons
Spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the IPDI conference catching up with various friends and vendors. Excellent panel on mobile solutions (see Mozes and POLItxt) and a discussion on VoIP and softPBXes (think Apache for the phone services) and how it will revolutionize the political industry. Continue reading
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Function combined with form
One of the questions I get asked freqently is “what do you do for campaigns?” The concept of using the Internet for campaigns has had the same hype that the Internet has back in the late 90’s (“it’ll change the … Continue reading
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Participation on the edges
Spending today in Maine at popTech (Thanks to Te Smith for her help) and spent the days listening to how technology and visionaries are working to “make a difference”. And one of the conference speakers, Professor Yochai Benkler (see Dina’s … Continue reading
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Mapping Data in Different Dimensions
Recently, I was speaking with a campaign manager of an “Internet savvy” campaign – they had a strong web presence, a campaign blog, an online fundraising campaign – and a network of web savvy volunteers working the campaign. The CM … Continue reading
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