Category Archives: Political Tech

Personal Democracy Forum – May 15th

Posted on May 6, 2006 by Sanford

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

Posted on April 16, 2006 by Sanford

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

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Sanford

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

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Sanford

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?

Posted on July 10, 2005 by Sanford

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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