Monthly Archives: March 2006

More on Boris Weisfeiler

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Sanford Dickert

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

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sanford Dickert

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

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Sanford Dickert

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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SXSW – Revenge of the Blogs: Election 2008

Posted on March 12, 2006 by Sanford Dickert

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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Process makes perfect

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Sanford Dickert

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

Posted on March 10, 2006 by Sanford Dickert

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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