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Announcements
25 Jun 2010
On April 22, 2010, the oil drilling rig "Deepwater Horizon" exploded in the Gulf of Mexico causing what may be one of the greatest ecological disasters in American history. Paradoxically, on that same day, millions celebrated the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Few understood the magnitude of the damage to come.
In the weeks that followed, as the environmental impact became clear, the Earth Day Network (EDN) rallied its members to take action and grew a massive...
Andrew Cohen
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Announcements
9 Jun 2010
Late last month, our site, CountySinRankings.org, was awarded first place in Sunlight Labs' "Design for America" contest in the "Visualizing Health Data Category." We came in first out of 13 entries.
But there were many other noteworthy winners. This video shows Clay Johnson of Sunlight Labs announcing the winners at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington on May 26, 2010. (He presents County Sin Rankings at the 6:15 mark.)
Andrew Cohen
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Announcements
25 May 2010
I'm proud to announce that Forum One's County Sin Rankings is a Design for America award winner!
Our contest entry placed first out of 13 entries in the "Visualizing Community Health Data" category. The award was announced from the stage today at the O'Reilly Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C.
This is the third win in a row for us. Our previous entries, Legistalker and...
Chris Wolz
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Announcements
5 May 2010
I'm excited to announce that Tim Deegan, former Art Director of Commerce at America Online, has joined us as a Senior Web Designer! Tim will lead Forum One's visual design practice, creating for our clients graphical designs which are elegant, distinctive, and highly usable!
We're pleased to have such a talented and experienced visual designer join our company. Tim brings more than 13 years of experience in design and has expertise in iconography, web typography, illustration, and mobile and print applications. At AOL, Tim directed their visual design team to create world-class e-commerce user experiences which saw continuous growth in site traffic and revenue.
Prior to joining America Online, Tim worked as...
Heather Virga
13 Apr 2010
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 6 — Forum One Communication’s staff’s open government suggestions were top vote getters on both the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State’s idea sites.
As part of the Open Government Initiative, U.S. agencies and departments opened up the idea sites to allow citizens to contribute original approaches and to vote for those they considered most effective.
The sites, Openusaid.ideascale.com and Openstate.ideascale.com, were launched in response to the White House’s Transparency and Open Government Memorandum, which mandated that agencies collect citizen...
Jim Cashel
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Announcements
2 Apr 2010
Q: Where is Forum One in 2010? A: In the two fastest-growing economies in the world!
Forum One staff are based in Washington, Seattle, and San Francisco — serving clients in those cities as well as New York, Chicago, Geneva, and elsewhere.
But in 2010 we're also expanding our work in Qatar and China. Both are fast growing, increasingly have organizations grappling with substantive policy issues, and have interest in more effective digital strategies to help them succeed. Forum One staff are spending more time in both countries:
Doha by day
Qatar...
Andrew Cohen
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
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....
Andrew Cohen
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Announcements
30 Dec 2009
We're proud to announce a brand new ForumOne.com.
Redesigning our own site was a high priority for us this year. We refreshed the design this past summer, but it was clear that more substantial rework was needed. The old site was last redesigned in 2005, and it was showing its age, both visually and functionally.
As with any of our projects, we began by thinking hard about our audiences — primarily prospects, clients, and job seekers. We created audience personas for each, carefully considering what communications managers, program managers, technology managers, CEOs, and other key audiences might want from our site.
This led to a vastly improved information...
Heather Virga
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...