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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 [...]

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’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 [...]

How to Run a PR Agency

  This fantastic presentation from David Brain, CEO of Edelman Asia Pacific, has been doing the rounds recently and it’s one we thought we should share with the Bright One Community. As David says: “PR people are not known for their business management skills. To the best of my knowledge, Harvard runs no case studies [...]

Would you be interested in a charity news wire?

We were sad to hear that the Media Trust is being forced to close its Community Newswire service due to Government cuts. In case you haven’t heard of it, Community Newswire is a free service  that helps charities and communities get their stories into the national and regional press by letting them submit stories online, [...]

The Latest Charity PR Articles on Behind the Spin

  In case you haven’t been following the PR for Good Causes theme on Behind the Spin, it’s well worth taking a look at their recent articles: Want to know the top 10 charity campaigns of 2010? Let Petra Opelova show you her top choices. Selwyn Jerry Boston explores the use of celebrity endorsement by charities Melanie [...]

Help name our new micro-volunteering app

The above image is a sneak preview of our new micro-volunteering app. Those who came to the Bright One AGM would have already seen this, but it’s getting closer to launch and we wanted to share some of the thinking behind it before launch, so that you get an idea of the possibilities it opens [...]