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Bright One joins calls for charities to be exempt from copyright licensing fees
Each year over 1000 charities collectively pay the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) £1.3m for the privileged of seeing their name in news print. They’re not paying to get into the newspaper (that’s our job in charity PR) instead they’re just paying to see it. Often paying to see something they had a big hand in [...]
Bright One Seeks Project Managers
It’s a new year, and with it comes new opportunities and challenges. If you’ve been looking for an interesting and rewarding volunteering role we’ve got one for you! In order to expand and grow in 2012 Bright One is in need of knowledgeable and experienced individuals to assist with clients and project management. We are [...]
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 One Announces PR Industry’s PR Prom
We’re very excited to announce the date for Bright One’s inaugural PR Prom that will take place on February 23rd 2012. The PR Prom is a fundraising event in support of Bright One and will be held at the fabulous London venue, Shoreditch Town Hall. There will be food, drinks, live performances by She Makes War [...]
Huffington Post UK launches Impact section
Last Friday saw the launch of a new section of the, still relatively new itself, Huffington Post UK. The new Impact section is “dedicated to issues, charities and making a difference” — so that’s up our street, right? Well yes, it definitely is and so I’d urge everyone to take a look and see what [...]
Bright One Volunteer is a Team London Star
We’re very proud to see one of our Bright One volunteers – Oana Munteanu – as one of the Team London Stars in the Mayor of London’s latest volunteering programme. Team London is a programme which aims to make volunteering easier to do and easier to find out about and the focus is on areas [...]
Event report: How to Build a Social Brand at Weber Shandwick
Last week, Weber Shandwick London hosted a great breakfast seminar to talk through the findings of their Socialising Your Brand study and to share their approach to building a social brand. Speakers: James Warren - Chief Creative Officer, Digital Chris Perry - President, Digital Communications Leslie Gaines-Ross - Chief Reputation Officer The excellent speakers were able to share some [...]
PRCA Charity Campaign Masterclass
This week, Founding Director of Bright One, Ben Matthews, spoke at a PRCA Charity Campaign Masterclass, alongside David Hamilton of Action for Children. Below are his slides, which covers three exciting charities and the tactics they use for successful campaigns: The Pixel Project, Centrepoint, and Child’s i Foundation. What tips have you got for [...]
Event report: Building an effective social media campaign
Along with quite a few other charity PRs (well, it was a free event after all!) the Bright One blog enjoyed an afternoon of tea, political campaigning and social media at Building an Effective Social Media Campaign, courtesy of the Hansard Society and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The awful 3G reception on [...]
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