You are invited to give us your feedback on our online volunteering platform, Bright Works. By taking part in the survey, you will be entered into a prize draw with the chance of winning £25 of Amazon Vouchers. Woohoo! The survey will take less than 10 minutes and provide us with crucial feedback on how [...]
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Ben Matthews
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 [...]
@BrightOne teams up with @Tots100 to launch #TimeToShare
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, [...]
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 [...]
Bright Works Awarded in European Volunteering Competition
We’re delighted that Bright Works, our microvolunteering app, received the award for third place in the Discover E-Volunteering competition, the only competition in Europe which aims to promote the most interesting projects in which volunteers help others via the Internet. Over 80 applications from organisations from 19 European countries were received and were great [...]
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Where is our Wonderful Web Manager?
We’re rather pleased with our Bright One website. Launched back in 2009, it’s served well as the face our organisation and allowed us to communicate with a wide range of people – from new volunteers to the wider industry and beyond. But after 3 years it’s looking a little worn around the edges and it [...]