You may have seen mentioned in the weekly Golden Dozen round-ups reference to LibDig – but there’s much more to the site than sharing a story for hopeful inclusion in the round-ups. Thanks to LibDig, Liberal Democrat members can easily share interesting, useful or enjoyable stories, videos or blog posts.

You can either post up content you have seen, or vote on content that other people have posted up; either way it’s a way of saying, “I found this interesting. I think you’ll find it interesting too.”

Social bookmarking sites like this have been around for a while, but they tend to suffer from being dominated by Americans interested in technology. If you are an American (or very interested in things trans-Atlantic) and/or interested in technology, that’s great – and sites such as Digg.com provide you with a ready supply of content that people with similar interests think you might also want to see.

However, if you’re not, these sites can be very frustrating as technology stories drown out other content and the “Politics” category is really just a synonym for “American politics”. Which is where LibDig comes in, because it only lets Liberal Democrat members post content or vote on content which is up there.

Like many other party services, LibDig uses the Liberal Democrats Account (LDA) system, so if you have an LDA username and password, you can start using the site straight away without having to go through a new registration process or having to remember a new username and password.

LibDig also comes with a “bookmarklet”. This is a shortcut you can add to your web browser’s favourites menu so that if you come across something interesting on the internet that you would like to share, all you need do is select this shortcut from your favourites menu. It makes the whole process very quick and easy. You can get the bookmarklet from http://libdig.co.uk/page/widgets.html

On the site itself, you can see the most popular items posted to it, those which are recently gaining in popularity (“upcoming”) and vote (“dig”) to make an item more popular. Or you can look up what particular individuals have found interesting; my recent selections are here for example.

The site is run by Ryan Cullen (he of the Lib Dem Voice team and the excellent Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator) – thank you Ryan!