Andrew Cohen
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Press Releases
18 Feb 2010
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 18 — CountyHealthRankings.org, a new site produced by Forum One Communications, provides the first look at the overall health of every county in all 50 states. The site was unveiled at an event on Wednesday in Washington by its sponsors, the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
While other studies have ranked entire states on health factors, this site is the first to showcase the impact of multiple health factors in every U.S. county. The site will help public health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, and consumers discover how healthy their county is compared to other counties and...
Michael Walsh
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Press Releases
2 Feb 2010
Launch Coincides with Black History Month and Airing of Companion PBS Series
Forum One Communications launches an official U.S. Army web site that coincides with black history month, the debut of the PBS documentary, "For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots," and provides an invaluable resource of videos, photos, and stories for veterans, educators, and students. Related blog post.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 — Forum One Communications, a leader in online strategy and web site development, today announced the launch of a new official web site for the U.S....
Heather Virga
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Press Releases
10 Nov 2009
Forum One Network’s second annual Online Community and Social Media Compensation Study delivers important data points to help set benchmarks and build standards for community and social media roles, responsibilities and compensation.
SAN FRANCISCO – Nov. 10, 2009 – Forum One Networks’ second annual Online Community and Social Media Compensation study indicates that only 17% of the respondents’ salaries have decreased in 2009, while 43% had a salary increase and 40% had no change in their salaries. Additionally, job satisfaction among respondents was still fairly high at 4.1 out of 5 and only slightly lower than the 4.2 reported in...
Joe Pringle
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Press Releases
10 Sep 2009
WASHINGTON — Forum One's DataMasher took first place out of 47 entries in Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest, a competition in which participants were challenged to build a web site or internet application that makes federal data more accessible, interesting, and valuable.
Forum One was presented the award and the $10,000 first place prize at the O'Reilly Media's Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase on Sept. 8.
Datamasher.org enables anyone to "mash-up" two sets of data representing information about U.S. states to create a custom marker. The site's data is drawn from Data...
Heather Virga
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Press Releases
8 Sep 2009
Forum One announces discussion leaders covering global community problem solving, the mobile communities revolution, and leveraging employees as advocates for it's latest conference in Sonoma, CA.
September 8, 2009 -- Forum One Networks, a strategy and research group specializing in online communities and social media strategy, announced discussion leaders for the eighth annual Online Community Summit, which takes place on October 8-9, 2009 in Sonoma, CA. The event will gather leading online community and social media executives from varied industries, who wouldn't normally meet, to share current and best experiences regarding online collaboration.
Discussion leaders include: Austin Heap of Haystack on...
Andrew Cohen
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Press Releases
27 Aug 2009
Forum One Communications is one of the top three finalists out of 47 entries in Sunlight Labs' Apps for America 2 contest, a competition to find innovative new ways to expand public access, understanding, and usage of federal government data.
Forum One's DataMasher.org allows anyone to "mash-up" two sets of federal data about U.S. states to create a custom indicator, which may then be viewed by all on a state-by-state map.
Visitors may create their own indicators, leave comments on others indicators, share indicators on various social media sites, and...
Heather Virga
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Press Releases
25 Aug 2009
Forum One Networks' partnership with ReadWriteWeb will provide valuable research and resources for online community and social media practitioners.
San Francisco, CA – August 25, 2009 – Forum One Networks, a division of Forum One Communications, specializing in strategy and research for online communities, and ReadWriteWeb, a top ranked blog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, announced a partnership to provide research on best practices in online community and social media management.
Forum One Networks has conducted research in the online community and social media industry for the past three years through the...
Heather Virga
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Press Releases
10 Aug 2009
San Francisco, CA – August 5, 2009 – Forum One Networks, a division of Forum One Communications, specializing in strategy and research for online communities, has expanded their strategic consulting service offerings to include social media strategy and executive social media roundtables and briefings in addition to their online community strategy programs.
Forum One Networks’ social media strategy services include: participation guidelines and policy development, training and certification for social media participation, monitoring programs and engagement strategies. With a rich repository of practice data and a large network of online community and social media...
Andrew Cohen
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Press Releases
6 Aug 2009
PCMag.com has named Forum One's Legistalker.org one of the "Top 100 Web Sites of 2009."
The list includes the editor's picks for the "hottest web sites and web trends of the year."
The sites were selected during a multi-month review process that included soliciting nominations from "every corner of the Web." A committee of PCMag.com experts evaluated each nominated site one by one, judging it according to its "content quality, design, and originality."
Legistalker offers citizens a continuously-updated, customizable feed of online and offline activities of U.S. senators and members of congress. The feed...
Colleen Gray
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Press Releases
4 Aug 2009
Forum One Communications, a leader in online strategy and web technology consulting, today announced that Michael Walsh, former Senior Communications Manager at Microsoft, has joined the organization as a Project Director. In his new role, Mr. Walsh will help drive Forum One's strategy and development efforts for a variety of nonprofit and government clients.
"I am really excited to have Mike joining us at Forum One," said Chris Wolz, President and CEO. "Mike brings excellent expertise in online strategy, online marketing, and social media in both the corporate sector and in government IT consulting. He possesses a great range of expertise which will be a real asset to Forum One and our clients!"
Walsh...