Social Media Aftershock

Did you feel the Earthquake?

Just one minute after the earthquake shook the East Coast yesterday 40,000 tweets were blasted out about the quake. This just shows the speed and power of social media in the times of disasters. We want to invite you to join the National American Red Cross today at 3:00 pm EST for Facebook DC Live: Social Media’s Role in Disaster Preparedness & Response to hear more about this emerging topic.

Tune in online to see Trevor Riggen, our Senior Director of Disaster Services, discuss a survey the Red Cross conducted regarding how Americans use social media during disasters. The event will be a live webcast on Facebook here.

You can RSVP and share the event information with your communities here. If you can’t watch today, the event will be archived for viewing later. In addition, we will be releasing the full survey results and a press release this afternoon.

Watch live streaming video from facebookdclive at livestream.com

Celebrate Red Cross Month!

Red Cross Month is officially here! It's an exciting time of the year for us Red Crossers. Want to celebrate with us? Here are some ways you can!

Become A Hero!


As Red Cross Month, March is also the month of our Heroes Fundraising Campaign. Through this grassroots community driven campaign we hope to raise money to fund our humanitarian efforts in Western North Carolina.

You can be a Hero, too! We invite any and everyone to sign up as a Hero with the Asheville-Mountain Area Chapter of the Red Cross.


Show Your Support in Cyber Style!

Avatars and badges are available for use on your Facebook and other social media outlets!


Donate Your Tweets and Status Updates!

Thanks to Helpattack.com, you can now use your tweets and Facebook updates to spread the word about the Red Cross during the month of March! Or simply use #RedCrossMonth in all your tweets!




Write (or Read) for the Red Cross!

"During the month of March, Writers for the Red Cross will be raising awareness and money for the American Red Cross by highlighting over 170 writers, agents, editors, book bloggers, and independent bookstores. Learn more here!

Donate blood, learn CPR, save a life!

Find a blood drive, sign up for a class or learn CPR for FREE on CPR Saturday!

Dance!

Reblog: Twitter Faux Pas

Since Asheville reigns as Beer City USA, we're surprised that this didn't happen here. While we don't condone drinking and tweeting, we're happy to have gone from "#gettngslizzerd to getting donations" as many have so humorously put it.

Side note: Support your local breweries!

Reblogged from the American Red Cross Blog.

"Last night we accidentally tweeted from our @RedCross account something that was meant to come from a personal account. Here’s what it looked like:

We realized our honest mistake (the Tweeter was not drunk) and deleted the above Tweet. We all know that it’s impossible to really delete a tweet like this, so we acknowledged our mistake:

In the meantime we found so many of you to be sympathetic and understanding. While we’re a 130 year old humanitarian organization, we’re also made of up human beings. Thanks for not only getting that but for turning our faux pas into something good.

You immediately embraced this mix-up and many of you have pledged donations to the Red Cross:

Huge thanks to Dogfish Head Brewery and the micro brew community for encouraging donations.

2 words of caution:

1. You’ll want to space out giving a pint of blood and drinking a pint of beer for health reasons.
2. Be careful of Hootsuite!"