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Our Top Blog Posts of 2016

What Everyone Loved Reading Most This Year Now that we have wrapped up 2016, we would like to take a look back on our top blog posts from the year as we get our inspiration brewing for 2017. Creating Impact: Do Your Communications Efforts Measure Up? Forum One’s… Read More

AAMC Releases the Biennial Diversity Facts & Figures Report

The Association of American Medical College has released their 2016 Diversity in Medical Education report. The Facts & Figures Report is part of a series, the second of which has been released in longform digital format. The Diversity in Medical Education report provides data on the race, ethnicity, and gender… Read More

Searching Multiple WordPress Sites with Elasticsearch

Recently, we worked with an organization that maintained two separate WordPress sites. One site was their organization’s “main,” public-facing site, which housed content about its leadership, work and day-to-day activities. The other was a less formal blog, which housed timely commentary and invited reader feedback through comments. The organization came… Read More

Predictions for 2017…

What We’re Talking About is a blog series featuring the articles, websites, topics, and trends that the Forum One team has been chatting about. This week, we saw a lot of articles about trends—what we saw in 2016, and what folks are predicting for 2017. I think a lot of… Read More

The Ins and Outs of Designing In-Browser

Forum One designed and built the new website ecosystem for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). As the lead designer on this project, I decided to design mostly in-browser rather than totally rely on Photoshop. Here are some lessons I learned in using this approach for this project. (For a more… Read More

Flexible Long Form Content with Paragraphs

At Forum One, I work with clients who contribute thought leadership to their fields. These clients use their web sites primarily as a way to publish their ideas to a wide audience, and they rely on Forum One’s expertise help them do it in a compelling, yet efficient, way. For… Read More

Very New Frontiers: Reflections from the Independent Sector Conference 2016

A couple of my colleagues and I attended the Independent Sector Conference 2016 a few weeks ago. The Independent Sector Conference is the annual gathering of “Independent Sector”, the leading “coalition of nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs committed to advancing the common good.” The conference took place a week… Read More

Hamburgers, Calendars, Generation Z…

What We’re Talking About is a blog series featuring the articles, websites, topics, and trends that the Forum One team has been chatting about. This week we talked about this article from Fiona Foster about the hamburger menu and how designers should be exploring better alternatives. She’s not… Read More

Typing, Websites, Arrival…

What We’re Talking About is a blog series featuring the articles, websites, topics, and trends that the Forum One team has been chatting about. This week, we all discovered how fast we can type with this well-designed and fun typing speed test from LiveChat. Its an interesting way… Read More

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