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.
Tag Archives: John Edwards
Freedom of Information leads to better engagement?
For example, imaging if Obama was offering a feed of donations to their campaign as an RSS feed and some person took that data, stripped out nothing but the dollars donated and plotted the information on a graphing solution like Trendrr. Now, imagine people are able to generate their own data and make their own assessments with the information, free from the opinions of the pundits and the “opinionmakers”. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2008, Political Tech Tagged flightaware, John Edwards, political mashups, Ron Paul Leave a comment
Wow – JK stands his ground and stays above the fray
Well, I am catching up on This Week with George Stephanopoulos and watched as he interviewed JK. And, for a man who has many ways of looking at an issue and trying to be very professorial, he did amazingly well … Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2008 Tagged Campaign 2008, George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry Leave a comment
Edwards and the Power of Words and Images
I would suggest that Edwards and others start talking in the tones of Clinton and Reagan – lead with a vision, a majestic honor (not too syrupy, please) and then follow with how things are wrong, why they are wrong and how to fix them. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2008 Tagged Campaign 2008, Clinton Global Initiative, Frank Luntz, John Edwards, Power of Words Leave a comment
