Forum One Chairman Jim Cashel Heads Back to Harvard as a Visiting Fellow

This fall, Jim Cashel is spending time at his alma mater as a Visiting Fellow with the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy researching broadband extension in the developing world and its impact on media. By Jim Cashel Over the past two decades at Forum One I’ve been… Read More

Top Honors for Forum One in 2018 WebAward Competition

We are thrilled to share the news that Forum One has been awarded with three top awards in the 17th annual WebAward competition. Founded in 1997, the Web Marketing Association (WMA) sets a high standard for Internet marketing and development featuring the best website on the web. Its annual… Read More

Amplify Engagement Through Brand Storytelling

Consumer brands are always looking for new ways to connect with their target audiences. So it makes sense that they have in recent years turned to an art that goes back to the dawn of time: storytelling. In today’s fragmented media environment where  there is constant noise and competition for… Read More

The Thankless (But Critical!) Task of Getting Big Content Migration Right

If you are a large nonprofit, you are in the business of ideas: producing great ones, and then changing minds and behaviors with those ideas. So it goes without saying that if your large organization is considering an overhaul of its web presence, then you are keenly aware of the importance of… Read More

There’s Still Time to Fix Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Strategy

Wait, did the summer really just fly by that fast?! If optimizing your social media strategy was on your summertime to-do list and you didn’t quite get to it, don’t worry: there’s still time. Let’s look at some key bucket items and areas where you can tweak and improve the… Read More

Improving Financial Education Through a Strong Digital Experience

Defining clear user journeys can help educators excel in the classroom. When we first started talking to the Bureau of Consumer Finance Protection (BCFP), the idea was simple: take a paper copy of a curriculum review tool and turn it into an online, interactive version. However, we all quickly realized… Read More

Vote Today for Our #19NTC Sessions!

Forum One and friends have four great submissions for next year's #19NTC in Portland. Take a look and cast your vote so that we can share some pretty spectacular and helpful insight and stories with you next March! The annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is NTEN’s signature technology… Read More

Good Government Branding Builds Trust

When you think of the word “brand,” your brain likely jumps to logos, colors and taglines. While these elements are important, they’re only scratching at the surface of what a brand experience entails, especially when it comes to government branding. For government agencies, branding is about managing and strengthening how… Read More

Up Your Facebook Game This Fall

Earlier this year, Facebook rolled out an updated news feed functionality that emphasizes what your actual human connections are doing, liking and sharing over content pushed out by organizations. Is this a good or a bad thing for nonprofits? While this change may have seemed like bad news at first… Read More

Elements of a Solid Privacy Policy

A great privacy policy is where you tell the world how your organization is working to protect the data privacy rights of those you are serving. It should not be dense legalese, but written to be easily understood. A few weeks back, I wrote about the ways in… Read More