Brandon CS Sanders

Country:	USA
Email:	brandon [at] beyondyes,com
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Me

I guess you could call me a collaboration enthusiast. Some of my friends call me a process monster. For more info about me visit my portal page or drop me a note on my talk page. I'm interested in group process and decision making. I believe something like Consensus Polling can make a huge difference in the decision making efficiency of a large diverse community (such as ICANN). Consensus Polling is for moving quickly from "Hey we have a mess here!" to "We're committed to a solution that we all feel good about."

I guess you could call me a collaboration enthusiast. Some of my friends call me a process monster. For more info about me visit my portal page or drop me a note on my talk page. I'm interested in group process and decision making. I believe something like Consensus Polling can make a huge difference in the decision making efficiency of a large diverse community (such as ICANN). Consensus Polling is for moving quickly from "Hey we have a mess here!" to "We're committed to a solution that we all feel good about."

Relationship with Snapnames

I've gotten several questions about my relationship with Snapnames. There is none. I'm good friends with Ray King, one of the main owners of Snapnames, but I've never worked for them and I don't know that much about their business.

Relationship with Ray King

I met Ray King at Wikisym in August 2005 and we discovered that we both live in Portland. He invited me to a couple of wiki get-to-gethers at his house where I got to know him better. He asked me to come help with the ICANNWIKI in Vancouver in December and I agreed as a favor to him.

Money I've Received

For ICANN Vancouver I received travel expenses plus a $1000 gift for my troubles and time. These expenses were paid for by small sponsorships from a wide variety of ICANN companies. I was surprised that I had such a good time serving as a "wiki evangelist" and was delighted to discover my pet project (Consensus Polling) might be able to help ICANN operate more effectively. I decided to stay involved with the ICANNWIKI project and try to help ICANN get more efficient. For ICANN Wellington space was short and ICANNWIKI wasn't allowed to buy a booth. We decided to attend anyway and use laptop computers with built in cameras to compensate for the lack of a booth. The sponsorships again paid for my travel and $2000 toward a MacBook Pro laptop. At the Wellington meeting I began to spend more time with ALAC because of the readiness with which they embraced wiki and Consensus Polling. I offered to set up a consensus poll to help them work through a couple of tricky issues that were dividing them and they accepted. (See ALAC:Self Assessment and Next Steps for the resulting document) For ICANN Marrakech I again received travel expenses plus a $1000 gift for my efforts. I continued to push Consensus Polling and look for opportunities to help the entire ICANN community work together more efficiently. So far I've received $4000 plus travel expenses for the three ICANN meetings I've attended.

Who do you work for then?

August 2005-August 2006 I worked as the technical director for a team starting a non-profit (http://ibesi.org) to enable grassroots innovation. September 2006-Present Ted Ernst and I are starting a consultancy called Beyond Yes to help groups work together more effectively (ala wikis and Consensus Polling).

What makes you tick?

I really really dig helping people work together effectively. That is why I "do what I do."

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.