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

Sun Apr 16 23:14:24 EDT 2017

Hi Everyone,

Just an opinion to take into consideration: The reason for the huge
backlash on the Satanic post was timing.

As many of you have heard me preach, emotion and culture matter. We just
came off the "pro-choice on everything" event, that made many people feel
unhappy. They saw it as an attack on their culture. And then we responded
with logical reasons for its validity. Logical responses to emotional
concerns rarely work. Accordingly, many of them were still emotionally raw.
Then during Easter week the Satanic Pic was posted. And of course, many
people again responded with logical reasons as to why it was acceptable.
This felt like more disrespect and a pile-on attack to their culture.

If this Satanic pic had come out in July or August (and we had no similar
instances in the meantime), this would have been a minor blip.

Again, just my opinion. I hope it's helpful.

PS - Yes, Joshua, that 5% was a nice gesture and I am pleased. Thanks for
acknowledging my emotions. :)

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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