Hey everyone, I wanted to reach out to you and get your thoughts on LPNOVA committees. I would like to know what types of committees you would be interested in. Website? Local outreach? Fundraising and promotion? Let us know how you can best contribute your time and talents for LPNOVA.
In Liberty,
Chris
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I'd be most interested in Local Outreach for Arlington / Alexandria and the election committees for said areas.
ReplyDeleteSome ideas for positions/committees: historian and computer operations (this goes beyond just webmaster, i.e. databases)
I can continue to handle the website, unless someone with real web design skills comes along. I have plans for a re-designed (and much better) LPNOVA.org in the first quarter of 2009.
ReplyDeleteI can also handle marketing. At this point I think that would consist primarily of designing flyers for any canvassing efforts that we undertake.
I think that we need someone to be in charge of recruiting and coordinating volunteers. There are many high school students that are in need of volunteer hours, and there should be a willingness amongst LPNOVA members to do some work for the cause. Somebody needs to make sure that we are getting as much work as possible out of people.
I believe that we should have a fundraising committee, a committee to "watch-dog" the local government, another for state government, and a third for federal. I think that each committee should produce at least 2 blog entries per month so that we have something happening on the website. Blog content is very important, as it shows our members that we are doing something and it can draw other people to our website.
That is all that I can think of for now.
Perhaps not a full committee for state and federal. Would it make more sense to have a liason to the state and national organizations? We should try and focus as much as possible on the local.
ReplyDeleteYour comment about Volunteering is an important one. One of the first things we should do is contact the proper school authorities and figure out what the process is for formally providing hours too students. We should try and get this done before the next quarter begins, hmm? Also, we need a big red button that says "VOLUNTEER" and have a single point of contact that gets the contact info and directs them accordingly.
I'm not sure about the 2 blog entries...we also don't want to saturate our audience. These posts would be reviewed for alignment with message, yah?
We should have a matrix orgainzation!
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df2hs28c_11498xb2km2&hl=en
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteIt was great meeting you all at the meetup and Carrie-Anne and I are glad to be on board! We are happy to help in any way we can though our time is very limited since we both work very long hours (how come nobody wants to bail out people who actually work for a living?)
Anyway, we both have sales and marketing backgrounds and I have done a lot of writing so we are happy to help with marketing and positioning. Not so much graphic arts or design, but messaging is something we can help with.
I am also interested in participating in the "watch-dog" group and writing on issues. I think we should have a committee to decide what issues we want to speak out on and should consider doing occasional press releases in response to significant events in the community. When our local elected officials make statements like this, people need to be aware of it! The more we can to do make people in Northern Virginia aware that we are here and on their side, the better off we'll be. I think that a lack of awareness of who we are and what we believe in is part of the reason people don't vote Libertarian.
Finally, I agree with Daniel that we should make sure blog posts are aligned with messaging and should probably have some sort of review for what we put up on the site.
Let's make some noise in the coming year!
Matt M
The comment about a "big red button" for volunteers has been noted, and will be featured in LPNOVA.org v2.0.
ReplyDeleteAs for the formal process for making hours available, I don't think there is any. LP campaigns are acceptable to the schools, so I am sure that most other LP activities will meet their requirements. I think someone just has to sign-off on a sheet indicating the hours worked. My sister should have more insight into this, as she used HS volunteers on the Redpath campaign.
These are all great ideas, and this will be one of the major talking points for our agenda on Monday. Thanks for your input.
ReplyDeleteI just moved here (new resident of Falls Church) and will be attending meetings whenever I can (I'm currently working nights as a bartender while seeking full-time 'regular' [daytime] employment). Personally, I think it would greatly benefit the party to mirror some of the operations constructed by the DNC and GOP. In Fairfax County, for example, they have now (and we could build towards) a county leader, a leader for each of the county's regions (as defined by the county board zones), and a leader for each precinct. I know that the LP doesn't quite have the volunteers to handle all of this, but building towards this could be a very positive start.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to see the LP, or any of its branches therein (such as LPNOVA), do more outreach marketing as to what a libertarian is, with an emphasis on a big-tent approach. Far too many people think of us as a party of just anarcho-capitalists, because the many or few libertarians they have met (big L or little l) loudly pronounce such views. A simple "big-tent" approach that largely reins in the cliché 'fiscally conservative, socially liberal' crowd could be quite productive.
I hope to meet many of you in the near future.
I just moved here (new resident of Falls Church) and will be attending meetings whenever I can (I'm currently working nights as a bartender while seeking full-time 'regular' [daytime] employment). Personally, I think it would greatly benefit the party to mirror some of the operations constructed by the DNC and GOP. In Fairfax County, for example, they have now (and we could build towards) a county leader, a leader for each of the county's regions (as defined by the county board zones), and a leader for each precinct. I know that the LP doesn't quite have the volunteers to handle all of this, but building towards this could be a very positive start.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to see the LP, or any of its branches therein (such as LPNOVA), do more outreach marketing as to what a libertarian is, with an emphasis on a big-tent approach. Far too many people think of us as a party of just anarcho-capitalists, because the many or few libertarians they have met (big L or little l) loudly pronounce such views. A simple "big-tent" approach that largely reins in the cliché 'fiscally conservative, socially liberal' crowd could be quite productive.
I hope to meet many of you in the near future.
I half agree with you Erik, but I don't think that reining in the "fiscally conservative, socially liberal crowd" is a very good idea. That is basically the definition of a libertarian. I don't think that we should water down our beliefs in order to get more people to identify with the LP. If we do that, how are we any different than the Rs and Ds? On the other hand, building a big tent, where not everyone has to support anarchy, is a great idea. I believe the LP needs to stick to its traditional values, but should do a better job of packaging them and tailoring messages to specific audiences. Basically, we need to sell guns to the gun crowd, gay rights to the gay rights crowd, etc.
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