Tag Archives: Public Relations
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 [...]
PR Internship with Carbon Leapfrog
We’re looking for a PR student/graduate to work on a project with Carbon Leapfrog, a new and unique business-led charity that galvanises and channels free professional advice from leading service providers across a range on disciplines into UK and international carbon reduction project. Intern Objectives: To help identify and extract the PR opportunities for [...]
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 [...]
“Pledge for Pixels” for the 16 days of Action Against Gender Violence
The Pixel Project, a global volunteer-led non-profit organisation working to end violence against women, invites you to be among the first participants in a new and groundbreaking online fundraising campaign. The Celebrity Male Role Model Pixel Reveal campaign is our flagship fundraiser that will raise US$1 million for the Women’s Aid Organisation of Malaysia [...]
From PR Student to PR Professional
This is a guest post from Alex Judd, a volunteer with Bright One on the Social Enterprise Mark campaign and an Account Executive at Pretty Green. If you’re a student and want to find out how to get your career in PR off to a flying start, come along to Bright One’s Impress London [...]
Bright One Celebrates Second Year with PRCA Partnership Launch
Bright One, the volunteer-run communications agency for the third sector, celebrates its second year anniversary through a partnership with the PRCA, the professional body that represents UK PR consultancies and in-house communications teams, and marks it with two remarkable results. Firstly, Bright One is delighted to announce its partnership with the Public Relations Consultants Association [...]
7 tips for a successful anniversary campaign
This is a guest post from Zoe Amar, a Bright One volunteer and Lasa‘s Marketing and Business Development Manager. This article originally appeared on the CharityComms blog. Lasa has just celebrated its 25th anniversary with a campaign that generated a return of investment (ROI) of 94:1; this means that for every £1 we spent on [...]
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Happy New Year – Bring on 2012!