Blogs
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8 May 2012ictQATAR is the website for the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology for the Government of Qatar, which is in charge of technology innovation and implementation throughout the country. Forum One has worked with ictQatar since 2010 to design, develop, and launch their current English-Arabic bilingual site on the Drupal 6 platform, and has continued to support them with usability and site enhancements since. In light of the ever-increasing importance of mobile...
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3 May 2012After sometime to reflect on the ongoings of NTEN's 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we wanted to share our thoughts on what we learned, gained and enjoyed about the conference. Brian Pagels: Conferences can be equally exhilarating and exhausting, and NTC 2012 was no exception. From breakfast plenaries to panels and science fairs to happy hours, there were enough activities to keep us running for 12-plus hours per day. If you are lucky enough to be chosen to speak at NTC, it is...
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27 Apr 2012With over 150 federal government sites powered by Drupal, the open-source CMS is more than ever meeting the needs of big sites. GovTech.com, a top source of government IT news, reported today on the many new government sites that are confidently adopting Drupal as their CMS. Agencies have overcome concerns about security, integration, and departure from Microsoft products. They are now realizing that Drupal’s flexibility make it the most cost-effective solution. Our own CTO, Kurt Voelker...
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23 Apr 2012Recently I had the task of creating a form that utilized an auto-complete text field that filtered on a specific field of a table. This seemed like a great candidate to use the core auto-complete and after a sprint of information gathering I had what I thought would be enough. After delivery I learned that there was one surprise feature. The auto-complete text field needs to be able to have filters applied to it via-form filter dropdown. At this point so many things were pointing at going full...
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16 Apr 2012The third launch of County Health Rankings has been the most exciting out of any of the three due to the mapping component that serves as the primary way to access the rankings. Having a map on the home page isn't new for County Health Rankings, each version of the site has had one. But where those were done in Flash and used only for navigation the new one is completely interactive. Some of the challenges that prompted changing how it worked were: Portability — Flash doesn't...
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9 Apr 2012So you have developed the next great mobile app for Android and iOS since Zombies, Run! and are ready to submit to their respective app stores. Now what? The next step is to create the marketing materials necessary to publish your app in both stores. These materials can be loosely grouped into the following categories: Listing Details Store Graphics Screenshots Videos Listing Details As you can see from the following table, many of the listing details have similar requirements...
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5 Apr 2012Our DrupalCon Booth Many of us, here at Forum One, recently attended DrupalCon Denver, the official conference of the CMS’ open source community. We each took some time to put together our perspectives on the conference, the Drupal community, and the future of Drupal. Aaron Zinck: I'm encouraged by the risks the Drupal community seems prepared to take to position Drupal 8 for success. In the near term, the Layout and Configuration Management initiatives are exciting in...
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4 Apr 2012Do you love storytelling with data? Are you passionate about open data and health care costs transparency? The California HealthCare Foundation is hosting a data design challenge to seek out engaging presentations that bring to life the story of rising health care costs. The Picture of Health: A Data Design Challenge is offering $10,000 in awards to entries that successfully depict public health data in new and interesting ways. Forum One has supported and participated in a number of challenges...
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3 Apr 2012Adult obesity, unemployment, lack of insurance, and air pollution are among the many health factors that affect our quality of life. And because these factors vary place to place, the health of a community depends on understanding these measures so local leaders can work to improve the health of the people in their communities. It is for that reason we are extremely proud to announce the launch of the new and improved County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHRR) website: www....
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29 Mar 2012Although we're still recovering from one, maybe two, long nights at DrupalCon Denver, we are ready to do it all over again — at sea level this time — at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. NTEN's annual conference brings together nonprofit professionals and tech innovators alike to convene on how to effectively create more social good in the world using emerging technology and tools. The conference is a great venue to exchange information and...
