[Lnc-business] New Committee does not resolve the problem

[Joshua Katz]

I agree with roughly 3/4 of Steven's email.  (To please Larry Sharpe, I
will increase it to 80%.)  I will leave it as a mystery which 3/4 it is.

Joshua A. Katz


On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Steven Nekhaila <steven.nekhaila at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The APRC is beyond its scope of duty if it is going to be monitoring
> posts, creating a marketing strategy, etc. That is why this committee was
> founded and it will tally up our shortcomings and identify our
> opportunities while allowing us to double down on our strengths. This is
> not a committee to investigate the APRC, this committee will review all of
> our social media practices and evaluate our current strategies which will
> come back to the LNC as a report so we can take meaningful, effective
> action in the proper direction.
>
> If we were to simply put the staff in charge of vetting posts it would be
> an undue burden, and more importantly it may not yield the effective
> results we are looking for. Social media is very complex and involves
> proprietary algorithms, while also varying from platform to platform, we
> need to keep our aces in their places while also looking for opportunities
> to improve brand protection and messaging.
>
> By having a committee study our social media assets and procedures and
> returning a report to the LNC we will be able to uncover opportunities that
> we may not know exist and expound on solutions. I hope you can have
> confidence in us to bring something substantial to the table come next
> meeting or before, this will not be taken lightly.
>
> Instead of attacking the situation with a hatchet, let's approach it with
> a scalpel, keep our teams motivated, and use this as a learning
> opportunity. I just ask you to trust our judgement and understand that we
> share your concerns.
>
> In Liberty,
>
> Steven Nekhaila
> Region 2 Representative Alt
> 305-393-6412 <(305)%20393-6412>
>
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> On April 16, 2017 at 5:11:26 PM EDT, Ken Moellman <lpky at mu-net.org> wrote:
>
> All -
>
> After my family events today, I returned to watch the last segment of the
> LNC meeting, which includes the creation of the committee to review how
> we're using Facebook.  I continue to have grave concerns about this.  We
> are not changing the status quo.  When most organizations make a giant
> mistake due to some sort of internal failing, they send in a "crisis
> management" team to take immediate action to handle the situation - to
> handle the external marketing and the internal procedure improvement.
> Apparently, we just create yet another committee to study it.
>
> 1.  We have "only" had 2 posts with very negative response, but there have
> been other bad posts as well. This motion does not prevent this from
> continuing. Nothing has been done to stop this behavior.
>
> 2.  We have FB volunteers communicating directly with people via FB
> private messaging, responding to negative comments. There is, to my
> understanding, no APRC oversight or approval on these communications that
> come across to the recipient as from "Libertarian Party".
>
> 3. We have no marketing strategy. There's no messaging. There's no
> marketing.
>
> 4. We have no specific social media strategy.  The first step would be to
> have a messaging and marketing strategy, and then to apply that strategy
> within the realm of social media.
>
> Simply put, creating a committee to review an existing committee (APRC)
> who reviews another committee (FB Admins) who reviews another committee (FB
> Volunteers) is not a solution.  It is an attempt to punt and gloss over a
> glaring problem with the party.
>
> I can spend hundreds of hours pushing ballot access. I can spend hundreds
> of hours doing IT projects. No amount of foundation work matters when we
> intentionally allow the negligent burning down of the structure upon which
> its built.
>
> I am currently re-evaluating my role in the party and the amount of time I
> dedicate to the organization.  Maybe it's my political mid-life crisis. I
> just have to question why I kill myself for an organization that kills
> itself by refusing to not allow itself to be killed.
>
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