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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 the BBC, morale is so low... [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, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live... [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, which has been watched over 100,000 times, shows... [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 of a mountain to climb competing for laughs... [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 silicon.com: "All those things - supporting what [the users are] doing, doing our... [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 Relief have created a branded space for users to view the charity's videos... [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 social-networking sites, including Bebo, Flickr, Google Video, MySpace and YouTube... [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) but feel let down by companies that fail to... [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 Ireland, said: "As a big supporter of Comic Relief... [08 Mar 2005]
Red Nose Days' Busiest Charity Web Site in the United Kingdom Processes 200 Transactions a Second
White Paper Comic Relief is an organization established to raise funds for the poorest and most vulnerable people in the United Kingdom and Africa. It wanted to maximize funds raised online by Red Nose Day activities, ensure complete security for electronic... [04 Feb 2005]
Cisco CSS 11K Provides 100% Availability for Comic Relief
White Paper On March 16, 2001, Comic Relief UK's Red Nose Day event aimed to raise an enormous amount of money for registered charities in the United Kingdom as part of the organization's mission to help end poverty and social injustice. [24 Feb 2004]
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 of cheese (and that's certainly the first time that sentence has been used in... [14 Mar 2003]
Charitable call centres offer Comic Relief
News The much-maligned UK call centre sector is working to improve its public image by throwing its considerable resources behind this year's Comic Relief campaign - which will come to a red-Mohicanned head on Friday night with the obligatory telethon. [13 Mar 2003]
Red Nose Day site attracts rich pickings
News Over 200,000 people have now logged on to www.rednoseday.com - the website set up by Comic Relief to support this year's fund raising efforts, which culminate on 14 March with the BBC's TV extravaganza. [27 Feb 2003]
Comic Relief: The technology behind Red Nose Day
News Following the huge success of its website in 2001, Comic Relief launched http://www.rednoseday.com on 7 February as part of the 2003 campaign, with web users able to find out how to get involved with this year's event - dubbed the Big Hair Do. [21 Feb 2003]
