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This 2008 political advert is still hard to beat

By Mark Pack | Published 12th January 2012 - 11:25 am

Enjoy (but please, don’t copy):

PS No, she didn’t win.

PPS For some other horrors, see the strange political adverts here.

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Campaign Corner: Is it better for a candidate to have a website or a blog?

By Mark Pack | Published 2nd January 2012 - 2:55 pm

The Campaign Corner series looks to give three tips about commonly asked campaign issues. Do get in touch if you have any questions you would like to suggest.

Today’s Campaign Corner question: I’m standing in May and not sure what matters most – my website, having a blog or both?

Ignore most of the advice people give you: You’ll find lots of people who have very strong views about the pros or cons of political blogging despite having very little knowledge on which to base them. To sort the bad advice from

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Welcome to the new bloggers…

By Ryan Cullen | Published 22nd December 2011 - 3:12 pm

Twenty three blogs have recently joined my Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

Andrew McFarland – http://faithandpride.org/
Hannah Claytor – http://hannahclaytor.wordpress.com/
Alisdair Gibbs-Barton – http://gibbs-barton.blogspot.com/
Paul Renwick – http://paulrenwick.wordpress.com/
Gordon Anderson – http://gordonanderson06.blogspot.com/
William Hobhouse – http://williamhobhouse.wordpress.com/
Scots Gazette – http://www.scotsgazette.org/
Jonah Oliver – http://jonaholiver.wordpress.com/
Jen Yockney – http://jenyockney.blogspot.com/
Tomas Forsey – http://liberaltaxi.blogspot.com/
Toby MacDonnell – http://cerebralliberal.blogspot.com/
Matt Gallagher – http://mattgallagher.mycouncillor.org.uk/
Edward Sainsbury – http://voiceofacitizen.wordpress.com/
Maria Pretzler – http://pretzler.net/blog/
Neil Littlewood – http://www.chinolas-place.com/
Richard Giddings – http://libdemninija.wordpress.com/
Morgan Griffith-David – http://spinelessliberal.wordpress.com/
University of Birmingham Lib Dems – http://students.guild.bham.ac.uk/libdem/
Ian Martin – http://overseasliberal.wordpress.com/
Josh Dixon – http://liberalinsight.wordpress.com/
Association of Liberal Democrat Scientists and Engineers – http://www.aldes.org.uk/
Sam Potts – http://liberalhighsheriff.blogspot.com/
Henry Booth – http://strollingslowly.blogspot.com/

Good luck to all the new bloggers, and why not take a moment to pop over to their blogs, take a read and post a comment?

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Calling all Lib Dem bloggers… Orwell Prize 2012 open to entries

By The Voice | Published 11th November 2011 - 3:53 pm

A short public service announcement for the benefit of all Lib Dem bloggers follows:

Entries for the Orwell Prize 2012 are now open, for political writing first published in 2011. Entries will remain open until Wednesday 18 January 2012. Full details of the launch, including this year’s judges, are available on our website, www.theorwellprize.co.uk.

Online forms for the Journalism Prize, Blog Prize and Book Prize are now available (along with PDF versions of the Journalism and Book Prize forms), along with the rules and values of the Prize, at http://theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/how-to-enter/. Entry for all three Prizes is completely FREE.

As

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The Independent View: Local government, social media and what the public really wants

By Rob Dale | Published 20th October 2011 - 2:53 pm

To many, social media seems the ideal way for government – especially local government – to engage in more dialogue with communities in a way that is low cost, time-efficient and allows a two way (or indeed a multidirectional) relationship.

But how many normal people follow their council on Twitter? Research done by the LGiU found that in the vast majority of cases it is about 1% of the constituency.

Social media has the potential to play a huge role In engaging people with political system whilst saving cash. Examples like the BwD Winter page – which Blackburn with Darwent …

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New on Twitter: Deputy Prime Minister’s Office

By Helen Duffett | Published 10th October 2011 - 3:59 pm

Nick Clegg has added another string to his social media bow – this time it’s a new Twitter account.

@DPMoffice will be “Tweeting the official business of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.” It will be run separately from his existing party Twitter account, @nick_clegg, which will still cover Nick’s Liberal Democrat and Government-related activities.

See also the Deputy Prime Minister’s website, his (Cabinet Office) Flickr gallery and the Deputy Prime Minister’s YouTube channel.

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Total Politics: top blogs and bloggers

By Mark Pack | Published 21st September 2011 - 6:50 pm

Following its list of top Liberal Democrat blogs and bloggers, Total Politics has now also published its overall list of top blogs and bloggers – two lists in which many Liberal Democrats feature.

In the top 50 of the blogs list, Lib Dem Voice is in at number 12 (up from 27 last year), Caron Lindsay at 25, Jonathan Calder at 38 and Andrew Reeves at 44.

In the top 50 of the bloggers list, I’m in at number 20, Caron Lindsay at 29, Andrew Reeves at 43 and Jonathan Calder at 49.

Thank you to everyone for your votes …

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Total Politics: top Liberal Democrat blogs and bloggers

By Mark Pack | Published 17th September 2011 - 9:45 am

Out with a little less fanfare than usual this week have been various categories in the Total Politics Blogger League Tables, including the top Liberal Democrat blogs:

1 Lib Dem Voice

2 Caron’s Musings

3 Liberal England

4 Andrew Reeves’ Running Blog

5 Stephen’s Liberal Journal

6 Mark Pack

=7 Liberal Vision

=7 A Scottish Liberal

9 Cllr Fraser Macpherson

10 Mark Reckons

And the top Liberal Democrat bloggers:

Lovely and fitting to see Andrew appear so highly in both …

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Four steps to successful email newsletters

By Mark Pack | Published 3rd September 2011 - 9:46 am

Autumn is traditionally the season why many local councillors and would-be councillor start thinking about sorting out their online activity ahead of next spring’s elections. It’s certainly a good item on the to-do list as leaving it all till after Christmas is leaving it all rather late. So as the weather is distinctively autumnal, here are four tips to make your use of email lists more effective:

Of course, email newsletters should be part of a wider, integrated plan to

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Voting closes on Friday….

By The Voice | Published 18th August 2011 - 9:25 am

A quick plug for ourselves: voting closes on Friday in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011. You can cast your votes here and if you would be so kind as to remember both The Voice and the blogs run by the various contributors to this site, that would be most spiffing. Thank you!

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Total Politics Blog Awards: voting is now open

By The Voice | Published 9th August 2011 - 3:48 pm

It’s that time of the year again, the Total Politics blog awards, in which people very kindly voted The Voice number one Liberal Democrat blog last year.

This year the voting rules are slightly different both to remove the old system of sending in emails and also to reflect that some people blog in several different places, so you can now vote for bloggers as well as blogs:

Your votes must be ranked from 1 to 10. The higher you rank a blog

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Welcome to the new bloggers…

By Ryan Cullen | Published 8th August 2011 - 3:37 pm

Thirteen blogs have recently joined my Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

Darren Fower – http://darrenfower.mycouncillor.org.uk/
Andrew Chamberlain – http://revolvingorange.blogspot.com/
Paul McGarry – http://www.paulmcgarry.org/
Rich Clare – http://abriefhistoryofliberty.tumblr.com/
David M Gibson – http://davethedystopian.blogspot.com/
Nigel Roberts – http://nigelroberts.blogspot.com/
WiLD Women – http://swld.org.uk/
Graeme Cowie – http://predictableparadox.blogspot.com/
Josh Goldenberg – http://starkrush.wordpress.com/
Conor McKenzie – http://conormckenzie.wordpress.com/
Gary Malcolm – http://garymalcolm.blogspot.com/
Greg Judge – http://gregjudge.blogspot.com/
Harry Matthews – http://yellowspectacles.wordpress.com/

Good luck to all the new bloggers, and why not take a moment to pop over to their blogs, take a read and post a comment?

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Petitions to Parliament – waste of time or golden opportunity?

By Mary Reid | Published 30th July 2011 - 10:09 am

The Government has just launched its brand new e-petitions system. You can find it here. The first petitions will be going live next Thursday.

Haven’t we been here before? Well, it is true that Labour surprised us all by setting up the Number 10 online petitions website some years ago, and that this attracted thousands of petitions.

But after the initial enthusiasm there was inevitable disappointment, because, in the vast majority of cases, the only response received by petitioners was a statement from a civil servant. It is true that, in some cases, petitions channelled strong public concern about …

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Welcome to the new bloggers…

By Ryan Cullen | Published 16th June 2011 - 12:19 pm

Fourteen blogs have recently joined my Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

Alun Eurig Williams – http://degwm.wordpress.com/
Andrew Tennant – http://10anta.wordpress.com/
Rhys Taylor – http://rhystaylor.wordpress.com/
Paul Hurst – http://notadirtyword.wordpress.com/
Lee Dargue – http://www.dargue.co.uk/
Keith Legg – http://climbingrussellsmountain.blogspot.com/
Chris Sams – http://gingerliberal.blogspot.com/
Paul Hindley – http://radicalpaul.blogspot.com/
Andy Thompson – http://themorethingzchange.wordpress.com/
Andrew Burgess – http://andrewjburgess-eu.blogspot.com/
Mike Dean – http://pacman-minoritypolitics.blogspot.com/
Jason Lower – http://www.jasonlower.com/
Simon McGrath – http://whywelostav.wordpress.com/
Daniel Brett – http://councillor.danielbrett.com/

Good luck to all the new bloggers, and why not take a moment to pop over to their blogs, take a read and post a comment?

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Well, this is one way to avoid people leaving your email list

By Mark Pack | Published 25th May 2011 - 1:35 pm

From Groupon, here is one way to discourage people from unsubscribing from an email list: show them what happens to a member of staff after someone leaves the email list. (Hint: involves throwing coffee.)

Showing people this tongue-in-cheek video on the unsubscribe page has apparently been rather successful.

Hmm, perhaps I should try this for my own email list. Though I think I’ll pick hot chocolate instead…

Hat-tip: Nudge blog

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