New media

Help the Aged's Web site reportedly already has over 1,000 pages.

The figure was quoted by Co-operative Systems in their presentation at CHASE 97.

Midas Charities Appeals Service, run by Ian Kerr, is publishing details of its services online.

Midas provides hands-on fundraising, consultancy and training. They have 30 - 40 clients ranging from the very small to the top 50 charities.

The National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is running on online discussion focusing on "Can the internet help voluntary organisations to achieve more?"

The topics include one on the Internet - a significant fundraising medium? Come and add your voice. (Pun intended - visit the site and you'll see why).

Shirley Cook has published the results of her survey last year into the business benefits for UK charities of using the Internet.

Shirley Cook, an IT team member at the RNLI, has published the results of her Not-for-Profits Internet Business Benefit Survey, conducted last year. Summary results are now available online.

US company ReplyNet is offering free e-mail marketing services to charities (and that includes UK charities).

ReplyNet will provide you with e-mail marketing services such as an auto-responder, mailing list, listserv, reader service, or fulfillment account on for free. As they say, "For your kind work, we offer our service free of charge."

BingoExpress is one of a series of online games at Bet 4 A Better World.

The organisation states that it will distribute approximately 20% of gross revenue to The New World Foundation and other charitable organisations.

Comic Relief is here again. The telethon will take place next month.

After very limited use of the Web at the last Comic Relief in 1995, it is expected that the charity will make more use of it this time round. Whether this extends to accepting secure donations online is not clear.

The Floppies for Kiddies Recycled Diskette Project is currently underway at USA CityLink.

Everyone is being asked to send unused, but still usable, floppy disks to CityLink offices where they will be distributed to schools, camps or other non-profit organizations that use computers.

Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital is using its Web site to solicit support in a number of ways.

NCH Action for Children are using their House Our Youth 2000 web site as one of two response mechanisms for posters along the escalators on London Underground stations and on bus shelter poster sites.

NCH's combination of posters and Web are sound, but remain an ununsually adventurous example of cross-media campaigning and fundraising using the Internet by a charity.