Give blood via text messaging with the Red Cross

The Red Cross will offer real-time alerts to critical blood inventories, tips for successful blood donations or even early notification of exciting new promotions. Once you opt-in for this program, you will be able to make appointments via a click to call feature or locate a blood drive simply by entering a zip code.

Donors can subscribe to Red Cross texting simply by sending redcross to 42227 or registering at bloodisneeded.org.

[via GoMoNews]

Related Blood Donor Campaigns by SMS:

-- Cellcom to launch SMS blood donor drive - Israel's official emergency blood bank, asked mobile operator Cellcom to send an urgent SMS to all subscribers, asking them to donate blood.

-- Mobile LBS finds blood donors - KTF and Korean Red Cross provide emergency blood donation service using handsets. Subscribers who have agreed to receive urgent messages calling for blood donation can give their blood voluntarily.

-- Looking for blood donors by SMS - the State's largest blood center, will launch a pilot program -- the first of its kind in the US -- enabling the organization to directly alert specific blood donors and volunteers in "real time" via wireless text messaging.

-- Want to donate blood? Just SMS - A "Be a Blood Donor — Save a life" campaign was launched in Chennai (India) to encourage donors to sign up by texting in their blood type to a designated short code.

-- Kiss a Vampire - In January 2001, a campaign by The UK National Blood Service, invited university students to come "Kiss a Vampire" (none other than Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of TV cult series "Buffy and the Vampires") in an effort to recruit blood donors.

emily | 8:01 AM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts, New SMS Services |
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