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2 Feb 2012
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, February 2, 2012 — Forum One Communications, a leading provider of digital strategy and website development, has been awarded the Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quality (IDIQ) contract vehicle to develop and support Drupal-powered World Bank websites over the next five years.
Forum One will partner with the World Bank to help its groups strategically communicate and interact with audiences online – ultimately to realize the Bank’s goals of reducing...
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23 Jan 2012
We recently had the pleasure of working with the awesome folks at GovLoop on an information architecture and design project. The purpose: to give GovLoop a quick facelift and use the Ning API to develop new “community pages” to make it easier for users to find content on key topics. If you’re interested in learning more about the changes, check out Jeff Ribera’s recent post on GovLoop and Govloop's founder Steve Ressler's 5 Tips on a Website Redesign.
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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 be a small focused subset of the content or service you would normally offer on your full website.
Mobile coupled with the web and social media becomes a powerful tool. From the Occupy movement to...
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20 Jan 2012
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the Greenhouse Gas Data Tool, which identifies major sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Forum One designed the online tool, and SAIC built it.
A little over a year ago, the EPA approached Forum One with a unique challenge: how to present the data collected about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a meaningful yet unbiased manner. Their goal was to allow U.S. citizens, environmental advocates, industry experts,...
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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 regularly. In fact, in the past year, Facebook entirely changed the function and purpose of Facebook Groups without changing the name. In fact, for awhile, "New Groups" and "Old Groups...
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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 better at aligning online investments with critical programmatic goals and designing meaningful ways to track the ROI of their online efforts. Senior executives in foundations, advocacy groups, and...
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4 Jan 2012
What happened in the world of Content Management Systems (CMS) last year?
Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! continued their reign as the most popular Open Source CMS for the third year running, according to the 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report by Ric Shreves of the digital agency water&stone. While WordPress was downloaded more than any other CMS, Drupal was the most popular based on numbers of messages, blog citations, and references in social networking sites. A survey of 2,500...
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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 about making the web more targeted and meaningful to local audiences, primarily in terms of language and culture. Arabic and other multilingual content is underrepresented, though there are efforts to...
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14 Dec 2011
At Forum One, we are passionate about driving progress in U.S. education. And while there are plenty of ideas on how to improve programs and policies, they can be difficult to interpret. Luckily, the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has an initiative called the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) that reviews education research to help answer the question, “What works in education?”
You can go to the WWC website and search for a program that...
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12 Dec 2011
Our old email's multi-column layout made the text small when viewed on an iPhone.
Do you check your email before you get dressed in the morning?
A recent survey showed that 35 percent of mobile workers check their email before doing anything else, including getting dressed or eating breakfast.
This is yet another data point as to why mobile matters. To put a finer point on it, by 2013, mobile will overtake desktop computers for web access. Clearly, web managers have a lot of...
