We are looking for Bright Ones interested in writing for our popular blog. We use the Bright One blog to communicate with our internal and external community about our latest announcements, exciting campaigns and news regarding our charities, and to discuss the latest developments in the world of communications and charities. We want to make [...]
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LinkedIn Launches Volunteer Experience & Causes Section
LinkedIn has just released a new Volunteer Experience & Causes section, giving the ability for individuals to highlight relevant volunteer experience at charities and non-profits, including the skills and functional areas in which they worked. And there’s more: If an organisation has a Company Page on LinkedIn, the volunteer will also be linked to that Company [...]
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 [...]
Bright One September Social: 29 September 2011
Bright One socials are great opportunities for volunteers and friends of Bright One to meet on a regular basis for some drinks, food and chat. We had a great one earlier this summer in Clerkenwell and with the summer being (almost) over we feel it’s time to kick-start this autumn with a good catch-up. Come [...]
Marketing Internship with The DoNation
Bright One client The DoNation is looking for a motivated and driven marketing intern with an interest in sustainability, behaviour change and communications. The DoNation is on the look-out for someone who can support the team in increasing The DoNation’s presence among key sporting organisations and environmental networks and support the development and implementation of The DoNation’s broader [...]
How to use social media for market research
This is a guest post by 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 is a Chartered Marketer. Zoe tweets from @zoeamar Social media gurus keep [...]
Carbon Leapfrog PR/MarComms Internship
We’re looking for a graduate to work with Carbon Leapfrog, a new and unique business-led charity that channels free professional advice from leading service providers across a range of disciplines into UK and international carbon reduction projects. Intern Objectives: To help identify and extract the marketing opportunities for Carbon Leapfrog’s various projects Increase the awareness [...]
Bright One teams up with Edelman for a Social Enterprise Clinic
Members of the Bright One community had the fantastic opportunity of meeting with global representatives of PR agency Edelman two weeks ago at an interactive workshop session at The Landmark London Hotel. The session was set up together with Bright One ambassador Robert Phillips, President and CEO of Edelman EMEA, and 13 Bright One [...]
Bright One Announces the Launch of BrightWorks – a microvolunteering app for charities
We’re delighted to announce the launch of BrightWorks, a microvolunteering app from Bright One. Bright One has achieved great success in the past two years, all through the passion and determination of its volunteers (as we have no paid staff). But teams of volunteers can only achieve so much, and demand overwhelmingly outstrips supply when [...]
Take a look at Bright Works, our micro volunteering app for charity tasks >>
Vote for Bright Works in the Discover E-Volunteering Competition
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 [...]