Great Email Campaigning
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…
Office Volunteers Wanted
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…
MyCouncillor is Changing
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…
Build Up Blog: Digital sources of information for campaigners
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…
MyCllr: Activating Your Lib Dem Campaigns Widget
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…
Winning Here Blog – Election Day 2014
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…
Winning Here Blog – New ways to ask for help
Mobilising the Movement – the Manchester Model What are our two greatest problems in winning the many defences we are fighting in May? Getting our…
MyCllr Downtime – Thursday 27th Feb (6-9pm)
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…
MyCouncillor: New WordPress Update
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…
Election Law: Defamation and Libel
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…
Report to Members November 2013
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…
Going on to the attack on Zero Hour Contracts
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…
Scrap Metal Rules Tightened
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…
Conference Gems
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…
Build Up Blog: MyCllr websites – hundreds of campaigning ideas for your patch
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…
Free Lunches
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…
Important – Changes to the ALDC Website
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,…
Queen’s Speech
With the Tories stumbling over Europe, its nice to be able to plough our consistent furrow. The County and Unitary elections are now over…
Time to say Thank You 2013
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 4
‘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…
Briefing – Five (Free) Services to Boost Your Online Campaigns
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…
‘Catch-Up Premium’ Campaign Materials
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…
MyCllr: Amending Custom Imprints
In the time since our templates were set up, the company who host our MyCouncillor network has changed its name. This means that their…
New WordPress Features for MyCllr Blogs
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…
MyCllr: Getting Widgety (inc. Lib Dem Campaign Buttons)
Widgets are small pieces of code that can make some neat optional features on your MyCouncillor site. Here are three widgets that you can…
Briefing on Focus Writing
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…
Briefing: Online Surveys and Petitions
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…
Weekly Briefing: Surveying
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…
HTML for re-blogging Nick Clegg Pupil Premium Message
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…
Report to Members, May 2012
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 MyCllr Posts
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…
Newcastle-Gateshead: Reporting Back
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,…