Influence

ictQATAR 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.

After 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. 

Do 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.

As I said in Forum One’s year-starting post 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012, "2012 will be the time that educators will master community management and exploit readily available community platforms."

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.

Are you befuddled 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. 

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.

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.

Mobile is on the rise. Here are five solid statistics sure to persuade any non-believer: 

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 road to realize success is full of failures – as it should be.