
These eight ways of handling a social media blunder will keep you prepared because a blunder could happen, and it is best to be ready instead of being caught off guard.

These eight ways of handling a social media blunder will keep you prepared because a blunder could happen, and it is best to be ready instead of being caught off guard.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Social media isn’t just about social ads, the social graph and social networks – the Red Cross has identified social emergencies as part of the changing face of media in the digital age. According to a recent survey, 74% of respondents believed that emergency aid responders heard their cries of help through social media, and expected a response within the hour. The American Red Cross will be hosting an Emergency Data Summit on Thursday August 12th to explore how Twitter, SMS and other social media can be harnessed to ensure that first responders hear the distress cries and get to the scene as quickly as possible. While the gap between expectations and the abilities of first responders appears to be quite wide, the Red Cross hopes to use this summit to improve their own and other emergency response organizations’ uses of social media to empower the public in times of disaster.
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Meez Nation is announcing a new campaign with the Red Cross, where Meez players will be able to virtually “give blood” at Red Cross stations within the virtual world. The Red Cross virtual blood-bank trucks will move through the virtual world and attempt to interact with Meez’ 13 million users.
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