Bloggers represent a powerful and influential online community, and the British parent blogging community is one of the most active around. This blogging community has a history of amazing support for good causes, with high-profile campaigns to raise awareness by the likes of Unicef, Save the Children and, most recently, CLIC Sargent, which ask bloggers to share information, words, [...]
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Ben Matthews
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 [...]
New Bright Works Projects Waiting for your Support
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, [...]
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 [...]
Take a look at Bright Works, our micro volunteering app for charity tasks >>
Take the @CharityComms Benchmark Survey 2012
We’re encouraging every communicator working in the charity sector to fill in the CharityComms’ Communications Benchmark survey. The results will let you compare your organisation to others and help build a picture of how the sector communicates. The survey contains questions about resources, your senior management’s attitude to comms, and where comms functions fit into your [...]