Mark Pack

Here are the Liberal Democrat entries in the top 100 political blogs as ranked by Wikio: 1 (6) Liberal Democrat Voice Falls 1 2 (20) Mark Reckons Rises 1 3 (48) Stephen's Linlithgow Journal Non mover 4 (51) Liberal England Falls 7 5 (61) Liberal Vision Falls 10 6 (62) Caron's Musings Falls 4 7 (65) Andrew Reeves's Running Blog    Rises 15 8 (67) Mark Pack Rises 3 9 (71) Peter Black Falls 14 10 (77) Quaequam Blog! Falls 12 11 (89) Miss S B (Jennie [...] »

Five blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Aberystwyth University Liberal Democrats - http://aulibdems.wordpress.com – old logo, new site Harry Armistead - http://harryarmistead.lancasterlibdems.org – nicely integrated with various social networks, including ACT Ian Lindley - http://www.ianlindley.co.uk – interesting use of Tumblr, and comes with a campaign song Lee Chalmers - http://www.leechalmers.com – though there seems to be a site missing from [...] »

Four blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Alasdair Murray - http://www.alasdairmurray.net/blog Andy Strange - http://www.strangethoughts.org.uk/ Jesse Boucher - http://jesseboucher.blogspot.com/ Matt Smith - http://mattsmithforblaenaugwent.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? Whether you are a new or experience blogger yourself, you may also find [...] »

... but under the proposed criteria for letting bloggers have lobby passes, I wonder if several existing lobby pass holders should lose theirs: The general criteria we would agree with is that the person applying for the pass should be a proper journalist with a track record of journalism; that they should be operating for a [...] »

(Blogging this for my own convenience so I can easily find the information, but it may be of use to others too...) ComRes polled 151 MPs in April and May 2009 asking, amongst other questions, which bloggers they most respect: Conservative MPs: ConservativeHome Guido Fawkes Iain Dale Political Betting Daniel Hannan Labour MPs: Iain Dale Tom Harris Nick Robinson Guardian Guido Fawkes Liberal Democrat MPs: Political Betting Lib Dem Voice Lynne Featherstone (Because [...] »

I've been on a bit of a roll this year, blogging about mistakes organisations have made and having senior, effective people get in touch as a result (including BT, Virgin Media and the Independent Safeguarding Authority). At one level, this is simply a reflection of how some organisations understand their reputations can be made or broken [...] »

Four blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Alistair Carmichael - http://alistaircarmichael.wordpress.com – the MP for Orkney and Shetland is a very welcome addition to the ranks of blogging Lib Dem Parliamentarians. Daisy Benson - http://daisyscampaigndiary.blogspot.com – our Reading West candidate gets stuck into local issues. Dave Page - http://davepage.focusteam.org.uk – good to see a new local blog using the [...] »

Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: A survey of over 2,000 businesses by the US firm HubSpot found that firms with active blogs get seven times more organic search engine traffic (i.e. traffic not driven by adverts) than non-blogging firms: Businesses that published at least 5 blog articles in the last 7 days draw 6.9 times more organic search [...] »

The January edition of Total Politics had the third in a series from me on councils and communicating. The first part, Yes, council websites can, looked at lessons from the Obama campaign for local council use of the internet. The second part, Adding some colour to council emails, looked at ways to make better use [...] »

Four blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Brent Martin - http://thedailyzeitgeist.com (Including some word counting in the Bible) Chris Wiggin - http://chriswiggin.blogspot.com (Strap line: I’m young. I live in York. I’m a Liberal Democrat. I run my own business. I finish too many sentences with exclamation marks!) Philip Peake - http://upinforesthill.wordpress.com (Great example of how a local councillor [...] »