About Sanford
The following is my professional bio:
Sanford Dickert (@sanford) is with Contagious Conversations, a social-media consulting firm offering general contracting services for the new age of digital engagement. Sanford has worked with Fortune 500 firms, leading venture funds and promising start-ups through product marketing and development strategies to help teams better understand and execute on customer-focused solutions through the effective use of technology and social media marketing.
Sanford has become part of the New York Tech community, working with businesses, investors and government to strengthen the connections between them and the NY Tech community though his work in coworking (cooperBricolage and New Work City) and various networking organizations (e.g. co-producer of the New York Tech Meetup when events are brought to the Cooper Union).
In other roles, Sanford has been an Adjunct Professor at Cooper Union and Polytechnic, teaching on Web 2.0 concepts and product development, been involved in various Democratic campaigns in roles such as Chief Technology Officer for the John Kerry for President Campaign, and been part of numerous startup companies focused on social software and online community services including eGroups (acquired by Yahoo!), gigabeat (acquired by Napster), hotrecruit (acquired by Trinity Mirror Group in London) and Interoute (largest telecoms provider in Western Europe).
In his “spare time”, he also publishes his thoughts on social media (The Social Engineer), political technology (PoliticalWarez) and online engagement (Political Gastronomica).
The following is my Linked In profile:
Professional Goal: Build incredibly great products/companies through senior product/brand management focusing on high-relationship products in the social media, mobile or immersive/MMP/virtual world game industry.
Areas of Expertise: Product Management in social media, online community, social network engagement, web publishing, telecoms, identity management, mobile services, and online applications.
Professional Experience: Effective leadership in problem solving, software development and product management teams. Applied engineering principles and problem solving techniques in market/areas normally not considered applicable for innovative and transformative changes.
Specialties: Leading-edge product management and development, teaching and evangelism skills, innovative technology solution development, networked business development, online marketing – with strong focus on social media, mobile and email marketing. Markets: wireless, community tools, politics, telecoms, mobile services, publishing, travel and leisure.
