Usenet is still useful
Howard Lake | 12 February 2001 | News
Newcomers to the Internet may not be aware of some of the older elements of the Net that pre-date the Web. Despite its age, Usenet, for example, remains a useful if underused tool for charities in the UK.
Newcomers to the Internet may not be aware of some of the older elements of the Net that pre-date the Web. Despite its age, Usenet, for example, remains a useful if underused tool for charities in the UK.
In addition to the many charity-specific newsgroups or discussion fora, there is one general charity newsgroup which regularly features fundraising issues. Uk.community.voluntary aims “to provide a forum for the discussion of the activities of UK based charities and voluntary organisations.” You do not have to contribute to the discussions; indeed many users simply “lurk” and use the information posted by others.
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Find out more from the UK Usenet Committee.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.