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The effective use of email helps us to campaign and win elections. However, email is an add-on to our literature and doorstep campaigning, not a…

ALDC, together with the North West Region Liberal Democrats (we share the same office) are looking for people who are willing to help with our…

New designs and new features to bring our online spaces up to date MyCouncillor is ALDC’s member-only website platform. We launched it in 2008 and…

The internet provides us with (almost) endless access to information and, too often, misinformation. It is very easy to get sucked into hours of research…

Our friend Mark Pack has made a useful campaigning ‘widget’ that can sit on your MyCouncillor sites. The beauty of it is that it will…

Election day 2014. First consider the strategy across your authority. It’s pointless running a polling day of military precision stacking up votes in a safe…

Mobilising the Movement – the Manchester Model What are our two greatest problems in winning the many defences we are fighting in May? Getting our…

ALDC members will be unable to log in or post new stories on their MyCouncillor websites for around three hours on Thursday 27th Feb. This…

WordPress, the blogging platform that we use for the MyCouncillor network, released its latest version at the end of last year. The upgrade, to WordPress…

In an age when instant publishing via social media is easier and easier, it’s never been more important to consider how you avoid expensive and…

Chief Executive Report November 2013 ALDC’s Management Committee has its quarterly meeting on Sunday 24 November 2013 at which this report will be presented. If…

Labour and the Unions have enjoyed themselves challenging the coalition’s job creation figures arguing that many of the new jobs on Zero Hour contracts. Typically…

Here’s a draft press release, that would also make a good MyCouncillor story. Localise it with examples of rail delays caused by cable theft for…

A huge advantage of being in government is that often, at conference, there is real good news to announce. So in a rather unscientific round…

ALDC’s Mike Bell discusses a useful way for finding inspiration for your MyCouncillor site stories and local campaigning. One of the many great advantages of…

One of the great campaigning issues to come of out of Glasgow conference was Free School  Meals “Nick Clegg announced that every child in infant…

Members visiting our aldc.org will see some significant changes, as we have launched our updated website. We have rebuilt the front end of our website,…

  With the Tories stumbling over Europe, its nice to be able to plough our consistent furrow. The County and Unitary elections are now over…

Hopefully by now you will have caught your breath!  The count will seem an awfully long time ago, but for the new councillors, and indeed…

‘Campaign Clipboard’ is produced jointly by the teams at ALDC and LDHQ and aims to provide a regular dose of bite-sized pieces of artwork that…

Online campaigning is never a substitute for knocking on doors and delivering leaflets, but it is an increasingly important add-on. These five online tools are…

Last week, the party announced a ‘Catch-Up Premium’ – additional money for Year 7 pupils who did not reach the expected level in literacy and…

  In the time since our templates were set up, the company who host our MyCouncillor network has changed its name. This means that their…

Our upgrade to the latest version of WordPress has given MyCouncillor users a number of additional features to improve your experience of creating and posting…

  Widgets are small pieces of code that can make some neat optional features on your MyCouncillor site. Here are three widgets that you can…

What is a Focus? A Focus leaflet is a local newsletter containing local news and information from the local Lib Dem team.  It is typically…

Surveys and petitions have long been a staple of political campaigns and community politics. A valuable weapon in the hand of any local activist or…

With May’s local elections fading into memory, it is time to dust ourselves off and get back on the doorsteps. The sun is starting to…

This week’s national MyCouncillor news story featured a personal message from Nick Clegg on the subject of the Pupil Premium. Whilst making our stories available…

ALDC Update February – April 2012   Background This report covers the three month period 1 November 2011– 30 April 2012, but given the importance…

Adding a ‘tweet’ button to MyCouncillor posts allows visitors to your site to tweet stories that they find particularly interesting. This is a valuable opportunity…

  ALDC had a busy Spring Conference in Newcastle-Gateshead, with three new staff members (and one staff member in a new role), an exhibition stand,…