New Year Resolutions to Amplify Your Impact in 2018

As we turn the page on 2017, I’m excited about one of our new year’s resolutions: to help our clients amplify their impact in 2018. With this fresh start upon us, here are three of the ways I’m thinking about magnifying and measuring impact this year: revamping a theory of… Read More

New Year, New Content Strategy

It’s that time again: planning for the new year and a chance to better engage your users with your content. If you’re like everyone else, you are running low on time with competing end-of-year priorities. We’ve got a few tips to help you get a strong start at making your… Read More

Why We’re Taking a Stand on Net Neutrality

On December 14th, the U.S Federal Communications Commission will vote to put an end to its, “net neutrality” rules. These rules are meant to safeguard people’s ability to communicate freely online, ensuring equal access to all information on the Internet. We think the existing net neutrality rules are important… Read More

Atlassian for Nonprofits: Facilitating Collaboration

Atlassian provides a powerful suite of tools that are already loved by developers, but are also gaining traction with non-technical teams within organizations. Atlassian tools fit into your organization’s digital ecosystem and help teams communicate, collaborate, and coordinate to get work done. Jira Software is already the #1… Read More

6 Social Media Strategy Tips for Nonprofits

As a nonprofit, you use social media to engage with your audience — from raising awareness, to collecting donations and inciting volunteers to sign up and help. But just how effective are your efforts? If you want to stay on top of your social media game, you need to be… Read More

Drum Roll… W3 Award Winners Announced

We are thrilled to see that Forum One has won Silver in not one, but three categories in this year’s W3 Awards competition. The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. The… Read More

Sticky Cookie: Uploading Large Files

Uploading large files in an auto-scale environment. If you work on sites with a lot of traffic, you know these sites will typically run across multiple web servers that share a single database (or perhaps several databases). Forum One has set up such auto-scaling infrastructures for a number of… Read More

6 Best Practices for Nonprofit 360 Video

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to read our blog post on 360 Video and Nonprofits: Is it Right for You? to answer the three questions that must be asked before producing a 360 video. Now that you’ve decided to make the jump, let’s walk through a few best practices in… Read More

360 Video and Nonprofits: Is it Right for You?

360 videos are all the rage these days. Whether it’s just a trend or here to stay, nonprofit organizations are wise to pay attention to them, and ask the right questions before jumping on the (super cool) 360 video bandwagon. Let’s first look at the basics of 360 video, and… Read More

What is Design Thinking and Why Should I be Doing It?

FACT: design-centric organizations perform better. They solve by doing, and ideate and prototype early to tackle some of the most complex problems. What is Design Thinking?   “Design Thinking” is a method commonly used by designers to solve problems. The idea of design as a… Read More