We started the year off with a slew of updates to Bright Works, our microvolunteering platform that lets causes connect with skilled volunteers in a now even simpler, effective and easy way. Now that the site is working better than ever, new projects have been added. If your New Year’s resolution was to give more back, [...]
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New Year, New Updates to Bright Works!
Happy New Year to you all ;) To kick things off in 2012, we’ve got some new updates to Bright Works, our microvolunteering platform that lets causes connect with skilled volunteers in a simple, effective and easy way. Here’s the run down: Slippy Tank We’ve upgraded the platform so that we can now have [...]
Bright One and Bright Works – First Impressions
This is a guest post from one of our new Bright Workers, Jessica. Want to join her? Head over to Bright Works now! If it wasn’t for Twitter I wouldn’t have discovered Bright One. In my follow-happy early days as a novice tweeter, I scoured Twitter for any organisation that consolidated my two main [...]
Infographic: Lasa’s Annual Review
Bright One board member Zoe Amar (@zoeamar) has been hard at work with Lasa, the charity that provides technology and welfare rights advice, as well as influencing policy on advice, legal services and third sector technology. Lasa’s new annual review demonstrates the impact it has had in its work with thousands of charities and government bodies [...]
Bright Works Update: New Projects, New Features and Competition Finals
Bit of a update on Bright Works for you: New features coming soon – sign up now to keep updated >> Looking to add your project to Bright Works? – get in touch >> Plenty of projects live up at the moment – help them now >> We’re heading to the final of the [...]
Where to list your volunteering opportunities
Bright One is busy, busy, busy as usual. We’ve got lots of exciting charities looking for our support and we always need to find lots of high quality volunteers (as many charities and non-profit organisations like us us do…). We regularly list our current volunteering opportunities, as well as retain a general application for [...]
2012 PR Graduate Schemes
The PR industry continues to grow and many agencies are seeing the value on running a formal grad scheme to attract the brightest and best new talent. The ever-awesome Ben Cotton over at Social Web Thing has once again done a fantastic job of compiling a post on PR Graduate Schemes from some of [...]
2 PR & Marketing Internships Up For Grabs at @BrightOne
Every day that Bright One progresses, we see the fantastic work that our volunteers do for charities and for Bright One itself. We want to help support more organisations with their communications needs. For that to happen, we’ll need more volunteers to work in teams and help these clients achieve their goals. But we also [...]
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Bright Works Featured on The High Tea Cast
The High Tea Cast is an irreverent, savvy, monthly podcast combines music and popular culture chat, and great interviews with cool young leaders in fashion, food and third sector projects. This month, Co-creators Sam Sparrow and Leanne Rice take a look at some worthy community ventures in 2012, finding ways their skills can help others and do some good. We’re delighted that [...]