Bright Works, our microvolunteering app, has been shortlisted as one of the best 12 volunteering projects on the Web as part of the Discover Ev-volunteering competition. You can read descriptions of the finalists here and choose the projects that you think are the most valuable and deserve the financial prize to further their development. Here’s a step-by-step on [...]
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Trends in Charities’ Use of Social Media
Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One, spoke at a CIPR Fifth Estate group event called ‘Trends in Charities’ Use of Social Media’, held at Grayling PR’s office. Charities have grasped the opportunities that social media gives to communicate with their supporters, often being nimbler and more innovative than their private sector counterparts. Facebook and Twitter [...]
Cost effective social media for charities
Last week, our very own Dan Howe took part in a Q&A on the Guardian Social Enteprise Network. Below are his “best bits”, but you can also catch the rest of the experts’ advice over on the Guardian. Research your social media audience: There are some research tools out there, like Rapleaf, which can identify [...]
A Jolly June Social
Last Thursday saw the latest Bright One Social take place, with over 30 people crowding into the back room at The Crown Tavern in Clerkenwell, London, to get to know each other a little better and find out what Bright One is up to. We had a fantastic time meeting our volunteers, those interested in [...]
Why real work happens away from your desk
This is a guest post from Zoe Amar, Head of Marketing and Business Development at Lasa, a charity which provides services to Shelter, Age UK and thousands of other charities across the UK. She is also on the board at Bright One and tweets from @zoeamar The summer months are finally here. Many of us will [...]
Catch the Bright One June Update
Did you receive the June update from Bright One? If not, you’re missing out! New events, new apps, and new clients, as Wig Party, Merism Capital, Patients Know Best and Just Energy all join the Bright One community. Read the June update now and make sure you subscribe to get July’s issue.
Event Review: #DoGood with @BrightOne & @UKTJPR
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Bright One Supports Search for Social Entrepreneurs in Big Venture Challenge
The Big Venture Challenge is a national competition to find the 25 most ambitious social entrepreneurs in England, which UnLtd and the Big Lottery Fund have launched to fill the ‘missing middle’ of the social investment marketplace. Bright One will be providing access to a PR team for each Big Venture Challenge winner. Ben Matthews, founder of [...]
Bright One’s May Social: “Do Good” with @UKTJPR
Date: Thursday 19th May 2011 Location: Adam Street Members Club Time: From 7pm Register: Do Good Facebook Event Hosted by Bright One in partnership with UKTJPR, the UK tech journalism and PR community, this event looks at how technology PR agencies and in-house teams can work effectively with the charities that make up the third [...]
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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 [...]