Influence
20 Jan 2012
Nam-ho Park often, blogs, speaks, and presents on mobile strategy. The Nonprofit Technology Network originally published this post online at NTEN.org and it is cross posted below with permission.
Distraction is a basic fact of mobile that you have to work with. Mobile apps or websites need to...
20 Jan 2012
Are you buffudled by the difference between Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups? I often am. It's the most common question I receive when presenting on social media.
The confusion is understandable because not only do they resemble each other in form and function, but their features change...
12 Jan 2012
New years invite new prognostication. In this post, 12 of our staff experts make predictions about what will gain momentum, inspire, or catch fire in 2012. Have better ideas? Tweet @ForumOne using the hashtag #12in2012.
1) Metrics that Matter
Chris Wolz, CEO:
In 2012, smart executives will get...
22 Dec 2011
No doubt you’ve experienced the web’s evolution toward a more social and mobile space. We share and consume content in more ways and across a greater variety of devices than ever before. You may have heard less about localization – another way the web is evolving. This trend is...
12 Dec 2011
Mobile is on the rise. Here are five solid statistics sure to persuade any non-believer:
As of 2010, more mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs.
By 2013, mobile will overtake PCs for worldwide web access.
Global mobile data traffic is almost tripling...
25 Oct 2011
The diffusion of information and communication technology (ICTs) throughout the world is changing the face international development and global health in fundamental ways. Development practitioners and technologists have an array of new tools with the potential to solve age-old problems, but the...
24 Oct 2011
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending one of Edward Tufte’s one-day courses—Presenting Data & Information. For almost three decades, Tufte has been a leader in the visualization of data and statistical information, a field he refers to as analytic design.
One point that stuck...
13 Oct 2011
This week, I attended a working group meeting at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs that focused on knowledge management in the international development sector. We heard presentations by two KM thought leaders:
Jay Liebowitz, Orkand...
13 Oct 2011
Recently, I joined a number of luminaries for the launch of the 4th Digital Media Learning (DML) competition, Badges for Lifelong Learning. Digital Learning Badges are online tools that recognize, measure, and support lifelong learning. The DML competition is a MacArthur Foundation-funded...
10 Oct 2011
At Forum One, we take monitoring and evaluation (M&E) seriously, especially when it comes to measuring the success of digital communication campaigns. While we love data and establishing relevant indicators for initiatives that are sometimes hard to measure, we also love talking about these...
