<div>Precisely well said Steven.</div><div><br></div><div>-Caryn Ann </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 6:30 PM Steven Nekhaila <<a href="mailto:steven.nekhaila@gmail.com">steven.nekhaila@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>In Liberty,</div><div><br></div><div>Steven Nekhaila</div><div>Region 2 Representative Alt</div><div>305-393-6412</div></div><span id="m_-219040289467574391draft-break"></span><br><br>---<br>Sent from Boxer | <a href="http://bxr.io/PBI3C" target="_blank">http://getboxer.com</a><span id="m_-219040289467574391draft-break"></span><br><br><div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">On April 16, 2017 at 5:11:26 PM EDT, Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:lpky@mu-net.org" target="_blank">lpky@mu-net.org</a>> wrote:<br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px" class="m_-219040289467574391null"><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">All -<div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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".</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">3. We have no marketing strategy. There's no messaging. There's no marketing.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null">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.</div><div class="m_-219040289467574391null"><br class="m_-219040289467574391null"></div></div>
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</blockquote></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>In Liberty,</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div><font size="1">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">A haiku to the Statement of Principles:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><i>We defend your rights</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><i>And oppose the use of force</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><i>Taxation is theft</i></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>