Why I should be your LiveJournal Advisory Board representative

[jmaynard]

I'm one of a bunch of folks running for the LiveJournal Advisory Board. I think I'd be a good user representative to LJ because I understand that, first and foremost, this is a community of folks who put their hearts and souls into their journals and the communities that form around them

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[insomnia]

Hi! My name is Mark Kraft, best known on LJ for being its business manager in its early, pre-dotcom days. (See this Aug. 2000 post by Brad for an explanation.)

I wanted to get ahold of you as you are one of the candidates for the upcoming election, to let you know about my latest project, ljunited.

It basically grew out of concerns I had that something needs to be done soon in order to turn LJ around from the brink, as well as a general awareness that LJ's advisory board election would turn into a popularity contest, unless enough people united in a way to both elect a strong candidate and to give them a strong grassroots organization behind them so that the advice they give to LJ's management would be less likely to be ignored.

LJ United's platform, and the basic beliefs that unite our members, are primarily based on the original promises that were made to LJ... the ones that have been systematically broken by LJs management for years, at the cost of the site's longterm growth and successThese original promises are

[serenadesha]

I saw you on the list of possible representatives, recognized you as the other southern-Minnesota Schlock fan, and decided to see if you had said anything about what you'd do on the advisory board. I definitely approve of your stance, and since I sort of know about you, I feel I can safely vote for you. Thanks for stepping forward to do this. :)

[seeds_of_peace]

Totally voting for you & plugging you in my LJ!

[necro1000]

I thought I'd let you know I just voted for you. Good luck to you.

[ekatarina]

Heard you on CBC the other day. Nice interview. Hope you had a good time at the event.

Ekatarina