[Lnc-business] new convention website using NationBuilder

[Scott L.]

Mr. Executive Director:

 

I think your plan to dip staff's toe in NationBuilder without betting the
farm on it is a good idea.  

 

 

However, I would like you to explain what you meant by the very last
sentence in the e-mail below.  I have made it red and bold to make it easy
for you to locate it.


   Scott Lieberman

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Wes
Benedict
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:09 AM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: [Lnc-business] new convention website using NationBuilder

 

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


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/>
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>
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. 

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