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We Have Risen to the Challenge

Carolina — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:04:21 +0000

We all know how Sport Relief encourages the whole of the UK to come together “to get active, raise cash and change lives”. This year, however, there’s something quite new about their fundraising approach. Sport Relief has turned to Social Media to encourage people to get involved and we have risen to the challenge and helped to implement their exciting Facebook application.

With it you can challenge your friends to do something to help raise money. Users choose a friend and a challenge to “spur them into action”. All the money raised is used by Comic Relief to help transform the lives of poor and vulnerable people, both at home and abroad.

The iPlatform can help you develop campaigns and competitions in Facebook and other social platforms. If you are interested in finding out how we can help, get in touch now. Follow us on Twitter here.

Help Red Nose Day ‘09 – Donate Your Status to Comic Relief!

joshuamarch — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:42:21 +0000

Do your part - donate your status to Comic Relief

This Friday it’s Red Nose day 2009, in support of Comic Relief, a charity campaign which, in over 20 years, has raised over £500m to support projects across the globe, from helping disadvantaged young people in the UK, to supporting those in dire poverty or suffering from HIV and AIDs in third world countries.

They teamed up with iPlatform to allow Facebook users to donate their status’s to help spread the word about Red Nose Day this week – the app has launched today. Click here to go to the app and donate your status!

iPlatform team win Comic Relief Hackathon

joshuamarch — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:20:07 +0000

Funny for Money!

A few weeks ago the Facebook Developer Garage organised a charity hackathon for Comic Relief. You can see more information at www.comicrelief-hackathon.com. It was kindly sponsored by Everycity, Microsoft and Adknowledge.

iPlatform teamed up with Wakari and Mo.Jo to produce the ‘Funny for Money’ application, which ended up winning the judges vote. The app has a simple mechanism for users to upload jokes, and encourage their friends to vote for their jokes by buying digital red noses, donating money to Comic Relief as they go.

See the app here.

The winning team - Sam, Mat, Dan and Josh