Sodalis take off: a membership platform out of this world
Shortly after our last BrightMinded newsletter update, we launched a brand new membership platform, Sodalis.
Designed with flexibility in mind the BrightMinded brains crafted functional units that can be tailored to your requirements. This way, Sodalis feels bespoke to your membership association, offering a perfect balance of simplicity and sophistication.
The platform is built on the latest techniques in AI to improve access to data for admins and members through a custom built Knowledge Assistant. Extract data from the CRM, draft email campaigns, segregate your contacts (and more) all without any knowledge of Structured query language (SQL) or any other query language because no one should feel like they need an inhouse developer to run their membership organisation – just a robust membership platform, crafted to eliminate every pain point.
Eliminating workflow disruption with our seamless migration and onboarding process, with Sodalis, you can combine a membership portal and add ancillary features to your public website, integrating all your data into one streamlined, cost-effective infrastructure.
BrightMinded 14th Birthday and Earth Hour Day
On the 22nd of March, we are turning 14!
Well into our teens, we’ll be celebrating with some non-alcoholic fizz, reflecting on our milestones, and setting ambitious goals for the future.
In line with our sustainability pledge, we share our birthday with Earth Hour Day. We encourage you all to spend 60 minutes of your time doing good for the planet!
Earth Hour 2025 takes place at 8.30pm local time (22/03/2025) and is a chance to take 60 minutes of positive action for the planet. Could you switch off all of your lights for that hour? Or, do you power down the TV, laptops and devices and play a board game together with friends and family instead?
Whether you’re into food, fitness, the arts, or the outdoors, anyone, anywhere can give an hour to care for our planet. Last year, the world gave more than 1.4 million hours.
This year, let us unite and go beyond to create the biggest hour for Earth!
The BM Team Bulletin
A con-graduation!
This year we have already seen the graduation of our Josh Sawyer from the University of Sussex. He is now an official Master of Science in Advanced Computer Science!
Anwen and Bradley contribu-fuel the transformation of Civi!
At BrightMinded, we encourage our staff to play, expand and explore, that’s how we come up with all of our innovative ideas after all. As part of our voluntary community schemes and the support for Open Source code initiatives, we contribute to projects like WordPress, Auto-GPT and LangChain.
This is how our very own Bradley Taylor and Anwen Williams ended up being featured on the new CiviCRM 5.82 release code authors list!
You can see their names in full glory here: https://civicrm.org/blog/dev-team/civicrm-582-release
Welcome to Natalia!
We’re excited to introduce our newest BrightMinder, Natalia Graczyk, who joins us as a full-time Digital Marketing Assistant.
Natalia will be making sure that BrightMinded’s marketing and communication materials stand out, helping us reach new and existing clients while ensuring we shine at future exhibitions and industry events.
Speaking of events, check out what’s been happening.
Big Data and AI world day out
John Mooren and Cristiano Solarino attended Big Data & AI World London at Excel London on the 12th of March.
Business leaders and visionaries across all technology verticals attend the day to shape their digital future.
Big Data and AI World London is an award-winning event featuring an unparalleled line-up of world-renowned speakers and exhibitors. They come together to present the most cutting-edge technologies and high-quality services, setting the stage for innovative digital transformation strategies. It only makes sense we had to send some BrightMinders over!
With AI shaping the future of every industry, this event is the perfect opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and explore how BrightMinded can help bring your AI-driven projects to life.
Out of all the pictures from the event, unfortunately none of them are actually of John and Cris so we had to improvise!
Hopefully next time they will be caught in action.
Spot us in the wild at MemberWise!
As we hit the big 1-4, we thought now was as good a time as ever to broaden our horizons and step out to the vast world of expos, namely the biggest one in the membership space – the Digital Excellence event put together by MemberWise!
On the 15th of May 2025 at Novotel London West Hotel, we will take over stand C8 to show off Sodalis, some of our lovely team and great BM-branded freebies.
Plus, if you need one more reason to attend then here we are offering you a discount code. From 22nd March you can enjoy 20% off the Standard Pass price by entering our discount code: ‘DX25E’. Save your cash and bag this bargain!
Follow our socials for regular updates on our MemberWise appearance!
We are the (MemberWise) champions!
Not only are we exhibiting at MemberWise’s expo, we are pleased to announce that we have been formally recognised as an Official Digital Excellence (2025/26) Research Champion!
This independent project provides a valuable snapshot of digital activity and strategy within the membership and association sector and the output is a Digital Excellence (2024) Report, containing statistically significant findings/results and written independently by the network.
As dedicated suppliers to the membership space, we believe strongly in the value of contributing to these membership-related studies. It benefits our staff, and more importantly, it serves you, our clients and network.
You can take part in the study and have a look at some perks by heading to the MemberWise site but not before checking out our badge below.
No more X – welcome Blue Sky
Due to the growing discourse surrounding Elon Musk, we have decided to leave X (Twitter) and set up our Blue Sky account (@brightminded.bsky.social) where we’ll continue to post nuggets of knowledge, news and exciting updates.
Acceptance, inclusivity, diversity and equality sit high amongst our central values so it would not align with BrightMinded to continue using the X. We haven’t looked back at all!
