[Lnc-business] cosponsors requested to have staff manage social media

Fri May 26 02:05:33 EDT 2017

How will this work for Snapchat? What about Instagram and Facebook Live?
How can volunteers submit tweets for approval in a world where a tweet has
to be sent out within minutes of an event in order to be effective?

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:45 PM Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sam said supervising staff not volunteers.  Not that I agree with the
> motion but if I had to pick out of something I disagree with, who I agree
> with more, it would be Sam's point.
>
> I will stay say that the content will become bland and we will not have
> vibrant page we have no.  Volunteers are not going to be as passionate and
> creative as they are now with the more bottom-up strategy.  Eventually it
> will go to a marketer, and the bulk of vibrant alive content will be at the
> affiliate level as we suck the life out of the page.  I have said that at
> the meeting, and it remains my position.
>
> But to speak to Daniel's point on his not supporting this even though it
> was his original motion, this failed at the meeting.  We decided something
> different.  Someone having voter's remorse for having misjudged the room is
> not grounds to backtrack a decision made.  Let the committee do its work.
>
> -Caryn Ann
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I disagree.  Not enough to say I wouldn't still consponsor if it were
>> there, but I disagree.  My largest objection is a simple
>> governance/management divide - as discussing in Carver's, tasks shouldn't
>> be delegated to staff and then still performed by the board.  Board
>> members, in my view, should be governing the party, writing the budget, and
>> setting strategy, not supervising volunteers.
>>
>> Joshua A. Katz
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:29 PM, goldsteinatlarge <
>> goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My preference would be for members of our governing board have
>>> supervision responsibility rather than just employees.  The most recent
>>> dust up was not on lp social media.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S®6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
>>> Date: 5/25/17 8:34 PM (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] cosponsors requested to have staff manage
>>> social media
>>>
>>> Sam, do you think that's a good idea in light of the policy requiring
>>> fairness for candidates for internal party office?  Our most recent uproar
>>> came from a post by an LNC member.
>>>
>>> -Alicia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Sam Goldstein <
>>> goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alicia,
>>>>
>>>> Would you consider adding "members and alternates"  to your motion
>>>> following "LNC"?  If so I will
>>>> co-sponsor.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sam Goldstein
>>>> Libertarian National Committee
>>>> Member at Large
>>>> 8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101
>>>> Indianapolis IN 46260
>>>> 317-850-0726 <(317)%20850-0726> Phone
>>>> 317-582-1773 <(317)%20582-1773> Fax
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm asking for co-sponsors for a motion to insert a new Policy Manual
>>>>> Section 2.06.5 Social Media to read as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> Only LNC employees and contractors shall serve as administrators of,
>>>>> serve as moderators of, or post content to, the Party’s social media
>>>>> accounts. Volunteer content creators may submit content for approval.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the LNC meeting there was majority support for the motion to both
>>>>> do the above and also to create a committee to review our social media
>>>>> processes.  I could have supported it, but if we know what we need to do to
>>>>> fix the problem, why spend the time to have a committee study it first?
>>>>> Just fix it.  I thought there was majority support for the other motion to
>>>>> simply turn control of our social media back over to staff.  Turns out that
>>>>> I was mistaken, and one person was not willing to turn control back over to
>>>>> staff without the creation of the committee, so then the other motion
>>>>> failed.  Because I misread the room, an option that actually had majority
>>>>> support didn't pass.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that we have separately created the committee, I want to go back
>>>>> and re-visit turning control back over to our staff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please note that the motion welcomes volunteers to submit material.
>>>>> It does not eliminate their opportunity to contribute.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to add some details to the discussion we had in Pittsburgh,
>>>>> with two Facebook PR blow-ups on our minds at the time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since Pittsburgh, we have had yet another PR disaster.  Granted it was
>>>>> not on our official FB page, but on the personal page it was posted to, the
>>>>> person's party position was touted right there in the sidebar, and we took
>>>>> a lot of damage from it.  The Convention Oversight Committee lost two very
>>>>> valuable volunteers over this latest disaster -- volunteers who did a lot
>>>>> of work for us in Orlando and were again helping for New Orleans.  Gone.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are no group votes before volunteers post on the party's FB.
>>>>> One person puts it into the schedule, and unless someone else sees it and
>>>>> objects, it goes public.  We publish so much material that the APRC doesn't
>>>>> always have time to review everything in advance.  Though the group has an
>>>>> informal rule against people posting their own material, people sometimes
>>>>> do it anyway.  The comments about the military could easily have been
>>>>> posted on our page.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a very recent incident in which a new volunteer was driven
>>>>> to quit on the same day she joined for the crime of suggesting that we post
>>>>> more positive material and less negative material.  I don't want to hear
>>>>> that the LNC giving final control to staff is somehow disrespecting the
>>>>> work of the volunteers, when that new volunteer's desire to contribute was
>>>>> so summarily disrespected.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have some important policies that I don't believe the volunteers
>>>>> have even been informed about, and volunteers are not really accountable
>>>>> for following policies in the same way that our staff is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Policy Manual Section 2.09.6:
>>>>>
>>>>> Party resources shall not be used to provide information or services
>>>>> for any candidate for party office unless:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - such information or services are available and announced on an
>>>>>       equal basis to all Libertarians who have declared they are seeking that
>>>>>       office, or
>>>>>       - such information or services are generally available and
>>>>>       announced to all party member
>>>>>
>>>>> Not all party members have access to post on our Facebook page.  Not
>>>>> all candidates for internal party office are offered the chance to post on
>>>>> our Facebook page.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think some of our Facebook posts cross the line into personal
>>>>> promotion of people who intend to run for internal party office at the next
>>>>> convention.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a time in the past when staff established criteria to try to
>>>>> manage application of this policy, with criteria for what constituted
>>>>> "news" or "earned media" that involved a candidate, etc.  I don't believe
>>>>> there is any such attention to his policy right now for our social media.
>>>>> Some candidates have already declared.  The closer we get to a national
>>>>> convention, the more these posts will be perceived as self-promotion that
>>>>> unfairly isn't available to their opponents.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I'm asking for co-sponsors for this motion, to return final
>>>>> decision power to our staff, who are expected to know and follow our
>>>>> policies, and who are accountable to the LNC.  The volunteer groups can
>>>>> continue to generate material just like they do now, but staff would
>>>>> schedule the actual posts.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the Social Media Process Review Committee comes back to us with
>>>>> suggestions for reasonable ways to manage this later, we can amend this
>>>>> policy.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Alicia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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