# Children in Need offer Tiny Terry desktop buddy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/11/children-need-offer-tiny-terry-desktop-buddy/
- Published: 2005-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**BBC Children in Need are offering supporters a pop-up “Tiny Terry” (Wogan, of 
course) to help keep them up to date with this year’s appeal. The free download 
of a pixellated Wogan generates an animated Terry Wogan on users’ desktops, providing
they are using Windows PCs.**

The pop-up Tiny Terry will generate a small pop-up window of the latest news of 
the BBC Children in Need Appeal. In addition, users can make the animation dance,
forward it to a friend. They can also review past messages, all of which contain
a prominent call to donate, and click through to the Children in Need website, or
to the online donation page.

Unlike the real Mr Wogan, you can make Tiny Terry disappear in an instant, whether
permanently or in snooze mood, ready to appear in 30 minutes, or up to 4 hours.

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When in snooze mode, an icon of the charity’s mascot Pudsey Bear sits in the system
tray, ready to be double-clicked.

[Comic Relief used a desktop buddy](https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/22/comic-relief-offers-free-desktop-buddy-campaign-updates/)
earlier this year in the form of The Nose. Indeed, both charities have used the 
same firm to create their buddy, Skinkers.com.

Desktop buddies offer an alternative method of reaching supporters and keeping them
up to date. Together with email newsletters, blogs and RSS feeds, they can help 
drive traffic and generate responses on a regular basis.

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