This is a guest post from Gerry Kiernan, a Bright One volunteer with eight years experience working at the BBC – namely the Radio Times. She has also worked as Deputy Editor of the BBC’s Ariel online and as a content producer on the BBC’s intranet. She now freelances and blogs about arts and culture at [...]
It’s fair to say that here at Bright One we’re fans of social media. It’s potential to aid third sector organisations to reach and communicate with the individuals who support them, as well as reach new people is vast. We use it a lot when it comes to working with our clients, but [...]
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 and wonder if [...]
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 to [...]
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 not-profit PR, [...]
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 charities. Barriers [...]
This is a note from Nicola Jones, Bright One’s new Community Manager. You can follow her on Twitter at @navigatornic. I’ve been watching Bright One from the periphery since its very early days. I’ve seen it grow and become and exciting and creative player in third sector communications, a real alternative to the traditional forces at [...]
Social Impact Camp Returns
Social Impact Camp is back! We are happy to announce the details of the next Social Impact Camp. A big thank you goes to the London Early Years Foundation for hosting the event.. Date: Wednesday 14th April 2010 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm Location: London Early Years Foundation, 121 Marsham Street, Lonon SW1P 4LP (Google Map) You can reserve your place [...]