Our chapter’s website is now on its way to the 21st Century. We have added the following powerful tools: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Youtube, Blogger and Imeem. We would like to invite you to utilize these tools and to share them with your friends. Below is a description and link to each. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Alex Elliott at elliotta@usa.redcross.org.

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. We can also start fundraising campaigns.

American Red Cross of Ventura County Facebook Page

MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.

American Red Cross of Ventura County Myspace Page

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

American Red Cross of Ventura County Twitter Page

Blogger: is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artblog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vblog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media.

American Red Cross of Ventura County Blog

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.

American Red Cross of Ventura County Flickr Page

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.

American Red Cross of Ventura County YouTube Page

Imeem is a music sharing website where users can upload, view and share audio clips.

American Red Cross of Ventura County Imeem Page