Technology

AK Consultancies have launched a new entry-level fundraising database for the smaller charity, and a new version of their established Fundraiser product.

The Cheltenham-based software provider says that "the new products boast a new look and feel, are more intuitive and have a host of new features."

Wood Green Animal Shelters is one of the first charities to install an interactive billboard in its reception area.

The screen, developed by Visual Planet, allows users to go on a virtual tour of the centre, access Web information, maps, and colourful digital images, by simply pressing a finger against the screen.

British Heart Week (7th June - 15th June) is just around the corner and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has teamed up with eBay.co.uk to sell a variety of items to raise funds.

Charities Aid Foundation's (CAF) online donation service efundraising.org.uk can now handle donations in foreign currencies.

Charities using CAF's Tailored Efundraising service will now be able to appeal for donations in foreign currencies through their Web sites.

If so BT is encouraging you to enter the Broadband Britain Challenge which aims to find the UK's "best and brightest" broadband users.

BT is looking for impressive, pioneering or original uses of broadband by individuals and organisations.

Social Ecology, the pioneering American application service provider (ASP) set up four years ago by non-profit technology expert Michael Gilbert, will stop providing its technology services this Summer.

The RSPB has redesigned its Web site to increase membership recruitment and revenue generation, using Tridion's content management solution.

Using Tridion, regional offices of the RSPB will be able to develop and post relevant content on the site, while the Web team at HQ will continue to retain overall control over structure, design and programming.

Seventeen IT volunteering projects are currently being negotiated as a result of the first "ITmatchmaker" event.

IT 4 Communities and Business Community Connections have hosted their first ITmatchmaker event for London-based charities in need of IT expertise and local IT professionals willing to provide their skills for a good cause.

Microsoft plans to offer free and discounted software to governments and educational institutions, although critics have suggested this might contravene European antitrust law.

This week 636 employees of leading City firms signed up as potential volunteers in a new online registration drive by an East London business volunteering agency.

East London Business Alliance (ELBA) took the initiative in response to a perceived slow-down in volunteering.