November 12, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
This is the fourth in a series of short profiles of nonprofit professionals who manage the social networks for their organizations.
For more on how nonprofits are changing the way they manage social media, see The Chronicle‘s recent feature.
Name: Wendy Harman
Age: 34
Title: Director of social media
Organization: American Red Cross
Twitter name: @wharman, where she has 3,398 followers
Number of Facebook followers her organization has attracted: 213,761
Success story: In 48 hours, the charity raised $3-million for the Haiti relief efforts largely helped by 2.3-million Twitter messages posted by supporters.
Read more of what she does with social media in this week’s Chronicle article, “Social-Media Mangers Help Charities Spin a Web of Support.”
