Welcome to the Bright One's Social Media Newsroom, a central resource where all of our news announcements and client releases can be discovered bookmarked and shared.
Our latest news is listed below, beginning with the most recent. They offer an informative overview of the key story points with supporting multimedia assets specially designed with bloggers in mind. If any of the releases are of interest to you, please feel free to share them with your social network to stimulate the online conversation.
11th Mar 2010
LearnAsOne,a UK-based charity dedicated to funding schools in Africa, today announces the launch of its first annual BuskAsOne, a week of busking events around the world from 19-25 April 2010. The charity is hoping to raise £22,800 to help build schools in rural Zambia.
8th Mar 2010
The Pixel Project, a global Web 2.0-driven awareness and fund raising organisation working to end Violence Against Women (VAW), will launch The Pixel Project Wall of Support on 8 March 2010 to coincide with International Women’s Day. The Wall of Support will be a thought-provoking gallery of YouTube video endorsements…
18th Feb 2010
An event for bloggers and other digital media at Amnesty InternationalÂ’s London Human Rights Action Centre on 22 February is asking “Is technology really good for human rights?”
Confirmed panellists are Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations; Andrew Keen (via video), author of “Cult of the…
29th Jan 2010
The Pixel Project, a global Web 2.0-driven awareness-and-fund raising Violence Against Women (VAW) campaign, is pleased to announce “The Pixel Project Weekend Webinar 2010 Series”, a number of live online public education seminars on gender-based violence that will be broadcast live from February 2010 onwards. The first webinar will be…
19th Jan 2010
Inspirational HIV charity Body & Soul and innovative design agency Bold Creative are scouring the UK for gifted illustrators to bring to life an exciting new project. Aiming to challengedispel common myths about HIV, The Day Project will give fresh design talent the opportunity to showcase their work by collaborating…
2nd Dec 2009
Bright One Communications, the volunteer-run communications agency for the third sector, held its first-ever Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 30 November, celebrating the impact it has made in its first year of life. Bright One also presented its first Annual Report, now publicly available at www.bit.ly/AnnualReport2009
25th Nov 2009
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has invited The Pixel Project
(http://www.thepixelproject.net), a global Web 2.0-driven fund and awareness raising project,
to be a launch partner in their global advocacy initiative ‘Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence
against Women.Â’
16th Nov 2009
Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One, has been announced as one of the Future 100 Young Social Entrepreneurs of the Year during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.
22nd Oct 2009
Today sees the official launch of an online charity founded by former Big Brother Producer, Lucy Buck. The charity, Childs i Foundation, aims to help the hundreds of Ugandan babies abandoned and left to die every year in the capital Kampala. Through the foundationÂ’s ‘Buy a BrickÂ’ online donation scheme,…
24th Sep 2009
Bright One, a volunteer-run communications agency for the third sector, today announces that four leaders in the Public Relations industry will be joining the organisation as ambassadors. The news comes as Bright One celebrates its first year anniversary since the launch on 25 September 2008.
The four ambassadors come from…
15th Jul 2009
Bright One Communications, a volunteer-run communications agency for third sector organisations, announces that it is working on The Pixel Project, an independent volunteer-led campaign to raise awareness and funds to stop violence against women.
The Pixel Project sees the Pixel Project team partnering with MalaysiaÂ’s WomenÂ’s Aid Organisation (WAO) and…
6th Jul 2009
Pants to Poverty are a whole new type of underwear brand that began as part of Make Poverty History in 2005. Maker of fair-trade and organic cotton pants for both men and women, they make great pants and sell them across 15 countries whilst working with thousands of farmers in…
1st May 2009
Bright One, the volunteer-run communications agency for third sector organisations, today announced that it will be working with Refugee Week, a UK-wide programme of arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK, and encourages a better understanding between communities.
30th Apr 2009
Musequality, a UK-based charity that funds communal music projects for disadvantaged children in developing countries, today announces the launch of the first annual Musequality World Busk, a week of busking events around the world from 8th – 14th June 2009. Sunday 14th is a special day for young buskers and…
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