Sanford Dickert

Blogs

In the past seven years, I have watched blogs become a small little thing that Ev created with blogger to the purchases of WebLogs, Inc. by AOL. In the course of this, I have steadily grown with the space, building blogs and experimenting with podcasts.

Social Engineer – This was my first attempt at a blog, originally focusing on my experiences at the Kerry Campaign and then migrating to being my personal blog and thoughts on social networking, the use of data in business and digital identity and privacy.

Political Gastronomica – This blog was started by transporting over the Kerry and Deutsch content from Social Engineer and has become my own political commentary blog. Originally designed to discuss how campaigns were using technology effectively (or not) in their campaigns, it has become a little more freeform.

Political Warez – This blog is my attempt to answer the basic question of “How to do X with Y” for political campaign staff. Due to the mumbo-jumbo of most technology efforts, this is an effort to discuss technology in a friendlier term for political operatives.

Sanford Links

Also, I have been found on almost every social network that has launched in the past decade, which leads me to include these links:

Social Network Links

LinkedIn
Ryze
ecademy
Facebook
tribe.net
Friendster
SPOCK
Twitter
MySpace

Technology Links

Business Insider
Omidyar Network
Confabb
Yi-Tan
NextNY
Cooper Union

Political Links

Daily Kos
Personal Democracy Forum
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SourceWatch
CivicActions

Press Hits

CNNi: How Effectively Will Obama Use Technology? (2009)
WIRED Mag: Obama’s Secret Weapons: Internet, Databases and Psychology (2009)
Now Public: How Social Media is Changing the Election Process (2007)
Politicos Cynical on Net’s Role in Campaign Ads (2004)
US Senate Candidates Banking on Internet Experts (2004)
Deutsch Launches New Campaign Website (2004)
Clicking for President (2003)



    Vital Stats:

    Grew up: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    Studied: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Communications, Psychology
    Degrees: BSCEE, Purdue
    MSEE, Stanford
    EngrEE, Stanford
    PhD (all but thesis), Stanford
    Current: Social Media Consultant, Political Consultant, Coworking Catalyst
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    The following are blogs that I publish on a semi-regular basis.

    » Political Gastronomica
    » PoliticalWarez
    » cooperBricolage
    » Center Networks
    » Social Engineer


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