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Ribbon Hero is a gasp game for Office 2007 and Office 2010 Word, PowerPoint, Excel and now OneNote! designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. If you feel Office can do a lot more than you have time to figure out, then Ribbon Hero is for you. Play games aka “challenges”, score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office. As a concept test, this is an opportunity for you to try out an idea we are working on and let us know what you think. As with any Labs project, if you have problems we’ll try to help, but no promises!

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The Institute of Fundraising has launched the Fundraising Academy, a series of courses in fundraising, as part of its promotion of continuous professional development.

via Fundraising Academy launched – Civil Society – Fundraising – News – providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits.

Bug in new-look site exploited to redirect viewers on Twitter.com if they just hover over a link – but users of third-party software are safe

via Twitter users including Sarah Brown hit by malicious hacker attack | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

Payroll giving more than doubles over decade

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 21 Sep 2010

Topics: Individual giving

Payroll giving increased more than twice during the last decade, according to figures released by the Charities Aid Foundation.

CAF, which processes the majority of payroll giving in the UK, revealed that payroll giving via its services accounted for £81m worth of donations in 2009/2010 compared to £31m in 1999/2010.

via Payroll giving more than doubles over decade – Civil Society – Fundraising – News – providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits.

The cost of processing gift aid claims to HMRC has risen by more than half over the course of this year, it was revealed during parliamentary questions yesterday.Economic Secretary Justine Greening told parliament that while estimates from March this year put the average cost of processing a gift aid claim was £5, the HMRC now estimates that the real cost is around £8 per claim.

via Processing gift aid more expensive than thought – Civil Society – Fundraising – News – providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits.