Red Cross Chat

You can feel great about your holiday gifts this year if you stock up on items from the Red Cross Store.
Our vintage gear is always a great gift for fashion savvy do-gooders:

Of course you can’t go wrong with preparedness items:

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As you all head off to enjoy Thanksgiving we just wanted to say thank you for supporting us in this wacky world of social media.
We’d be remiss if we didn’t remind you to brush up on your Thanksgiving safety tips.
Travel safely, cook safely, eat safely. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

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– This post is by Claire Johnson, social media guru

If the Red Cross had a Halloween costume, it would be a Vampire costume (but a really nice world-saving Vampire costume)
Do you remember anything about 1992? All I remember is that I must have seen the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie every single weekend that year. […]

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Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there.
We have lots of volunteer dads helping those affected by the flooding and tornadoes throughout the central United States
(with 1100 Red Cross workers and over 900 of them volunteers, of course there are lots of dads out there).
One of them, Larry Fortmiller from California, describes why he’s […]

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This video explains how the modern day American Red Cross works with the military in our Service to Armed Forces program.

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Yesterday we started looking forward to Memorial Day and the rest of summer by asking you to take a quiz and refresh your water safety practices.
Today we want to highlight how some of you have prepared to stay safe this summer. Flickr user Maryland1RN shared some great shots from recent Red Cross swim lessons to […]

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We’re planning many exciting social media forays in 2008, the first of which is to get our Nonprofit YouTube channel up and running.
Personally, I’d love to figure out a way to use this video to promote blood donation.  After having viewed it approximately 100 times and sharing it with every friend I have, I’ve concluded […]

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If you want to share these photos on your own site, grab the code here to embed a slide show.
If you want to take a closer look at any of the individual photos, see our Flickr stream.

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I don’t mean to scare you, but turkey day is dangerous!
Thanksgiving Day has more than double the number of home cooking fires than an average day according to the U.S. Fire Administration. In fact, each year more than 4,000 fires occur on Thanksgiving Day.
Don’t leave Tom unattended!
Evidently it’s not just turkeys that make Thanksgiving dangerous.
In […]

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I’ll probably be writing several posts about preparedness after Labor Day. September is, after all, National Preparedness Month.
In the meantime, have a safe and happy long weekend. Download these Be Red Cross Ready podcasts to help pass the time during traffic jams and airport delays.  You can even share them with your guests at that Labor Day barbecue. […]

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