Category Archives: BrightOne News

The Pixel Project Wall of Support: Calling for An End to Violence Against Women

The Pixel Project, a global Web 2.0-driven awareness and fund raising organisation working to end Violence Against Women (VAW), will launch The Pixel Project Wall of Support on 8 March 2010 to coincide with International Women’s Day. The Wall of Support will be a thought-provoking gallery of YouTube video endorsements from people from all walks [...]

7 tips for a successful anniversary campaign

This is a guest post from Zoe Amar, a Bright One volunteer and Lasa’s Marketing and Business Development Manager. This article originally appeared on the CharityComms blog. Lasa has just celebrated its 25th anniversary with a campaign that generated a return of investment (ROI) of 94:1; this means that for every £1 we spent on the [...]

Searching for a Superhero

Bright One’s clients perform feats of amazing power every day and we’re behind them all the way. To help our teams of volunteers we’re looking for a Volunteer Manager, a special kind of person who will go the extra mile for our volunteers. We’re putting the call out for a Superhero. The Organisation For those of you that [...]

Bright One Online

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 [...]

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 and wonder if [...]

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 charities. Barriers [...]

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 [...]

Bright One included in the Future 100 Young Social Entrepreneurs of the Year

We’re delighted to hear that Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One, has been announced as one of the Future 100 Young Social Entrepreneurs of the Year! The Future 100 Awards puts the spotlight on young people aged 18-35 who are demonstrating entrepreneurial flair and innovation in running a responsible business venture; one which demonstrates a balance [...]