Monthly Archives: December 2009

Bright One & Third Sector PR Joint Xmas Drinks

This is a guest post from Rob Dyson, PR Manager at UK charity Whizz-Kidz and founder of the Facebook Third Sector PR and Communications network. You can follow Rob on Twitter at @robmdyson or read his blog at www.robdyson.posterous.com. Last night my Facebook Third Sector PR and Comms network hosted a joint Christmas knees-up with Bright One [...]

Social Impact Camp

What is Social Impact? From Wikipedia: “In business and government policy, social impact refers to how the organisation’s actions affect the surrounding community.” What is Social Impact Camp? Social Impact Camp is a monthly meet up for people to discuss different ways of measuring social impact. We compare tactics, think of ways to improve it [...]

Welcome to Bright One’s Twitterverse

We were playing around last week with a really cool tool which we thought we’d share with you: MentionMap. MentionMap helps you to “Quickly find relevant people to follow.” You can use MentionMap to see Twitterconversations as a network and click any user to explore more about them, which means it’s a really neat way [...]

Christmas Drinks and Networking

Feeling the December spirit yet?  Well then the next date for your diary has to be this one! Bright One are delighted to be teaming up with The Facebook Third Sector PR and Comms Network for drinks and networking on 17 December from 6:30pm at the Roxy Bar And Screen (Near London Bridge). We are inviting anyone who works in [...]

The Rise of Mobile in Charity Communications

This post was written by Ben Matthews for the CharityComms askCHARITY blog, a blog with posts about charity communications from a host of experts. You can read the original post here. Although I’m usually wary of making predictions about the year ahead, I’m fairly confident that 2010 will be the year of the mobile for [...]

Bright One Donates 1,500 Hours of Communications Expertise in First Year

Bright One held its first-ever Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 30 November, celebrating the impact it has made in its first year of life. Bright One also presented its first Annual Report, now publicly available at www.bit.ly/AnnualReport2009 Bright One measured its economic impact by calculating the amount of resource that charitable organisations have been [...]