Red Cross Chat

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?

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 […]

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National Youth Council members Pat West and Mat Morgan sent me an email last week explaining the following video they created as a recruitment tool for youth volunteers.
>> See all of them (so far - we’ll be putting them to work on more soon) 

What do you think?
If you have a camera and an idea, why […]

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The illustrious (and prepared!) John Solomon of In Case of Emergency, Read Blog and NPR’s On the Media came by yesterday to interview our own Senior Vice President for Preparedness & Response, Joe Becker, as part of his series, “What Should We Tell the Public?”
We’d like to thank John for his continued support of the Red […]

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As part of the Red Cross Service to Armed Forces, we deploy small groups of brave souls every few months.
The latest crew left headquarters last week for Fort Benning. They’re now en route to their final destinations, but before they left Maryl Neff sent in these pictures and her thoughts before leaving the US:

Happy 4th of July!
SAF […]

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Yesterday morning we welcomed Gail J. McGovern into the Red Cross family with a meet and greet in our headquarter’s atrium.  
We covered the announcement of her hiring fairly extensively here and all the same impressions of her hold true. I watched her get whisked away in mid-conversation with members of the rank & file but before leaving she […]

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Here’s introducing the 15 brand new American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet members. This group joins 32 returning cabinet members.

Penn Badgley is a lead character in the hit show “Gossip Girl,” which has enjoyed a cult fan following since its fall debut. He recently appeared in the teen film “John Tucker Must Die,” and stars in […]

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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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My first day here at least three people told me about the eagerness of the American Red Cross Youth Council to blog. They asked,
“Do you think this is a good idea?”
Yup! Sure do. Since no one was officially blogging at that time, the youth leaders assembled themselves and began to write privately, finding their voice […]

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Building the American Red Cross Flickr Photo Group is one of my favorite tasks. You guys take inspiring shots every day and I’d like to start highlighting some of them here at Red Cross Chat. It may be a “photo of the month,” or a “photo of the week,” or even a “photo of the day” down […]

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Hello world! I’m Wendy from the American Red Cross and I’ll be your host at Red Cross Chat.  
I’m a relative new kid on the block here at national headquarters. You may be asking yourself,
“Why in the heck do I care what Wendy Harman has to say about the inner workings of the Red Cross? She’s […]

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