[Lnc-business] new convention website using NationBuilder

[doug at vikingmetals.com]

Sounds awesome...
Doug Craig 

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Subject: [Lnc-business] new convention website using NationBuilder
From: Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org>
Date: Nov 24, 2015 2:06 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
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Unless I detect significant opposition soon from the LNC, I plan to have 
built a 2016 convention website using the NationBuilder platform.

I've already broached the topic with Nick Sarwark and Sam Goldstein.

I'm excited about the possibilities the NationBuilder technology offers, 
but not yet completely sold on the platform or the enormity of the 
conversion task.

Starting with a convention website will allow us to get our feet wet 
with the technology, and at the same time, to quickly roll out some of 
our new branding. And since this won't involve a massive wholesale 
instantaneous changeover from our current website, LP.org on Drupal, and 
our current membership database, RaisersEdge, it's something we can 
manage without the risk of destabilizing our entire organization at the 
start of a Presidential election year.

If you like the content of the 2013 Libertarian Party of Texas Annual 
Report:
http://www.lp.org/files/LPTX_2014_Annual_Report.pdf
then I think you're going to like our upcoming branding efforts and 
convention website.

The makers of that annual report, including the events portrayed, the 
graphics, and I'll add to that--most of the content of the current 
LPTexas website http://lptexas.org/ (joomla platform I think), will be 
building the 2016 convention website.

Separately, Andy Burns, our affiliate support specialist, has already 
implemented a couple NationBuilder sites at the state level. He won't be 
the main driver of this project, but of course we'll consult him for 
practical advice.

The convention theme, as voted on by members, will be #LegalizeFreedom
<http://www.lp.org/>

Starting with a convention website allows us to import a small portion 
of our database contacts, which keeps the pricing very low, but allows 
us to experiment with its interactivity capabilities with our best 
activists.

If things go well, I can see migrating other things, like perhaps 
http://lpstore.org/ to the NationBuilder site. Perhaps the site could 
eventually morph into the replacement for LP.org, but that's something 
we can decide later.

Perhaps we will be able to get away from some of the additional payment 
portals we've had to rely on, like Piryx pages 
<https://secure.piryx.com/donate/uO2ehmy0/libertarian/llpp22>, and 
Authorize.net <http://www.lp.org/office-fund>, and consolidate those 
functions into the NationBuilder system.

The 2014 convention website is here, https://lpcon2014.org/ and I 
suspect we'll easily outdo that one.

Content for the 2016 convention is currently embedded in pages on our 
existing website: http://www.lp.org/convention/welcome

I see the new website as a combination of a convention project, an I.T. 
project, and a branding project. The costs will be relatively low. The 
risks will be relatively low. Our Treasurer and Audit Committee will 
have plenty of fun double-checking the cost allocations.

I plan to tell our team to get started on this next week, and to have it 
live before the end of the year, unless you guys want to stop this 
before then, which I can live with. There are many viable paths around 
the roadblocks of progress.
-- 
Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
*New address: 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314*
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

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