Tag Archives: PR
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 [...]
2012 PR Graduate Schemes
The PR industry continues to grow and many agencies are seeing the value on running a formal grad scheme to attract the brightest and best new talent. The ever-awesome Ben Cotton over at Social Web Thing has once again done a fantastic job of compiling a post on PR Graduate Schemes from some of [...]
Guardian Live Q&A on Making It in PR
What makes a good PR professional? What skills do you need? How do you go about getting that all important first job? These were some of the questions discussed in yesterday’s live Q&A arranged by Guardian Careers. The panel included Bright One’s Ben Matthews together with: Emma Radcliffe (Beattie Communications), Hew Leith (M&C Saatchi [...]
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 [...]
New Addition to the Bright One Team
A few weeks ago Bright One went looking for a PR superstar in the making to help with the running of the organisation. Well, the search was a success. So much so that we offered the role to not one but two superstars – Tom Fitzgerald and Tove Nordstrom. Here, Tove gives her background and [...]
Applications open for The Taylor Bennett Foundation’s Internship Programme
The Taylor Bennett Foundation, whose purpose is to address the need for greater diversity in the communications & PR industry, is now accepting applications for its award-winning PR training and internship programme taking place over Summer 2011. Over the ten week paid internship, candidates will receive professional training in communications, the media and business, take part in [...]
Case Study: ‘More Than A Gift’ for Chistmas
In 2010 Bright One helped Centrepoint with their “More Than A Gift” campaign. Find out more below or visit the Centrepoint Gifts site. The Centrepoint ‘More Than A Gift’ campaign was a fundraising appeal to help the charity provide vital support for homeless young people over Christmas. The microsite allowed users to buy a [...]
Bright One Annual Report 2010
Founders Note If Bright One’s first year was all about testing the concept of an organisation that used PR professionals and students to help charities meet their own PR and communications needs, then our second year has been about making this concrete: firming up our processes, building up our volunteer community, and [...]
PR Events Calendar 2011
We feel we’re living in a golden age of socials, conferences, meet-ups, hackdays and good old fashioned networking events. Armed with a box of Moo cards and stickers containing their Twitter usernames, a wave of comms people are meeting up on a regular basis to discuss what’s new and interesting – and 2011 looks [...]
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