Linda – if you have a mobile phone with a camera, you may well have all you need in order to post a video to Youtube.

Jo – thanks for the pointer to Alix – the post you’re talking about is here. There are indeed some good points there, not least that Alix’s response to the idea was “Oh, what a waste of time” whilst mine was “Oh, that sounds cool!”

Alix makes a point that she would rather deal with text than video. And there are certainly some women represented in the online forum-based hustings. So that’s a bit better.

And there’s something for women directly on the Women Lib Dems site.

If it’s ‘Why aren’t women posting on the You Tube video thingy’? The Alix on The People’s Republic of Mortimer answers that quite effectively…

However, a more interesting questions is ‘Why are our attempt’s to engage the memebers and voter in the leadership election via the internet only working with men not women?’

Mark makes a good point about diversity on Alix’s response. But, in terms of communication and engagement, it is up to us to go to the women not up to the women to come to us; that’s if we’re really serious about wanting them involved.

As for why there’s no women contributing questions… I think there’s less of us getting actively involved with Lib Dems on the internet, and the ones that are may well find the idea of uploading a video quite terrifying!

Here’s one.. Cavemen versus Astronauts…