Introducing Red Cross Avatars for Your Social Networking Pleasure

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Wendy Harman

A few weeks ago Twitter user Lauren Beyer suggested we provide avatars/icons for our social networking volunteers to show their affiliations. Great idea, right?

Avatar Tweet

Before you even ask, we’ll be adding some girl versions soon. What other kinds of avatars would you like to use to show your Red Cross love?

In the meantime, you can start the right-click, save as motion on the ones below.

Blood Avatar

Volunteer Avatar

Donation Avatar

Red Cross Ready Avatar

Filed under: Blood, Disaster Response, Flickr, Health & Safety, Introduction, Preparedness, Volunteers

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6 Responses to “Introducing Red Cross Avatars for Your Social Networking Pleasure”

  1. Ike, on July 17th, 2008 at 5:10 pm Said:

    How about some PNG versions, with transparency around the image and text?

  2. Wendy Harman, on July 17th, 2008 at 5:11 pm Said:

    I’ll pass that along to designer John Rodgers. We’re going to post them to RCO for download and we’ll have those available.

    Thanks, Ike!

  3. Lauren B., on July 17th, 2008 at 5:49 pm Said:

    These are great! Thanks for taking a simple idea and making it happen. My only suggestions would be to make the icons themselves a bit bigger (Twitter resizes, as do other profile sites) to make them easier to read any text that is on there. Also, I’d love to have sidebar badges to put into a blog, Facebook page or profiles.

    Can’t to see what the girl versions look like!

  4. infobabe, on July 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm Said:

    I want one that gives a shout to our employees!

  5. This just in - New Red Cross Avatars! « American Red Cross - Rock River Chapter Blog, on July 17th, 2008 at 9:30 pm Said:

    [...] can check them out here or below. Just right-click and choose “save [...]

  6. Mike Chapman, on July 20th, 2008 at 12:56 pm Said:

    Hello, Wendy. Thanks for the tweet about the avatars. Ping me this week about how we can coordinate another blood drive with an even wider reach. This is great stuff.

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