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Just-in-Time Intelligence Helps Comic Relief Boost Donations 25% While Reducing Failure Risk
White Paper Comic Relief wanted to calculate real-time online donations for broadcast during Red Nose Day 2009, a seven-hour, live, televised fundraising event and identify the clips that generate the highest... [28 Aug 2009]
The Heart Is a Smile Wide
White Paper Comic Relief wanted to provide a quickly scalable infrastructure reliable enough to be entrusted to process nearly 25% of the organization's annual income within a 7-hour window. As a solution... [30 Jul 2009]
Comic Relief laughing with cloud computing
News Comic Relief has turned to cloud computing to make sure its web and transaction platforms can cope with the demands of Friday's Red Nose Day 2009. Charlotte Melen, web technology manager at... [12 Mar 2009]
Comic Relief Raises US$94 Million With Help of Web Application Testing
White Paper One of the most widely recognized charity brands in the United Kingdom, Comic Relief has always been an early adopter of new technology. With the rise of broadband, Comic... [31 Jan 2009]
Comic Relief Leverages Technology Innovations to Increase Donations Almost 100-Fold in 10 Years
White Paper Comic Relief wanted to guarantee continued ability to capitalize on the emotional response of viewers during live broadcasts by capturing and processing instantly the thousands of donations, every minute. [30 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07
Round-Up In the meantime, kudos and a mention in next week's Round-Up goes to any reader who can make a comic sentence out of the following words: 'Gordon Brown', 'HMRC blunder', 'Tories', 'squeezy balls'. According to a story on... [30 Nov 2007]
Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site
White Paper Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable,... [05 Sep 2007]
Blair goes YouTube to toast Sarkozy
News Comic Relief effort. YouTube's not just for clips of Diet Coke and Mentos: Tony Blair has used the video-sharing site to offer his congratulations to new French president Nicholas Sarkozy. The video,... [09 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up If you want to find out more about the ways in which technology is helping the team behind Comic Relief then you can do just that by reading this story. But today the Round-Up realises it has something... [16 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Comic Relief has revamped its website and IT infrastructure to cope with its increasingly tech-savvy fundraisers. Martin Gill, head of new media at Comic Relief, told... [15 Mar 2007]
Piczo gagging for some Comic Relief
News Comic Relief has teamed up with social networking site Piczo to get users more involved in Red Nose Day. Piczo, which enables teens to create their own websites, and Comic... [06 Mar 2007]
Comic Relief clowns around on YouTube
News Comic Relief is working with social-networking sites to expand its online reach and increase Red Nose Day's appeal. The Comic Relief charity has approached several... [28 Feb 2007]
Businesses race to keep up with generation IM and SMS
News New media and development manager at Comic Relief, Amanda Horton-Mastin, said the charity is trying to shift donations to the web. Consumers are embracing new technologies such as instant messaging (IM)... [20 Oct 2005]
Comic Relief: Get giving and get recycling
News The IT industry is being encouraged once again to get involved in the charitable mirth-fest which is Comic Relief - taking place this year on 11 March. Duncan Mitchell, MD of Cisco Systems UK and... [08 Mar 2005]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.03
Comment Let's hope his students give Comic Relief lots of their beer money. More information on Comic Relief can be found at http://www.rednoseday.com. Staying with the subject... [14 Mar 2003]
