Influence
17 Mar 2010
Reflections on community at SxSW
Andrew, Bill, and I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, where we spent nearly a week drinking from the proverbial technology innovation firehose. We attended numerous panels, connected with colleagues and friends on nonprofit...
16 Mar 2010
We've written previously about the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive. Among other things, the Directive has led to a proliferation of innovative "ideas sites" across the federal agencies.
Last week the White House issued a new memorandum titled "Guidance on the Use of...
25 Feb 2010
Previously, we've discussed our approaches to Twitter, Scribd, and SlideShare. Now it's time to address the social site with the biggest stage right now: Facebook.
Forum One's Facebook Page.
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15 Feb 2010
This month, Forum One and Autodesk hosted a panel titled, "Social Media for Social Impact" during Social Media Week in San Francisco. We had the privilege of having four panelists who each told a story demonstrating how the social web had empowered communities around social causes....
22 Jan 2010
Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti.
Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. I explained how technology and social media are playing a leading role in innovation in the aid...
19 Jan 2010
President Obama sends his first "tweet" for the Red Cross at their headquarters Monday. Photo courtesy of the Red Cross.
The images and stories coming out of Haiti are disturbing, upsetting, and unbelievably...
23 Nov 2009
We have described previously on this blog how Forum One approaches social media in general, as well as our experience with SlideShare and Scribd. In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter.
Twitter is impossible to ignore. It has been embraced by celebrities (...
11 Nov 2009
Many of our clients at Forum One produce large numbers of PDF documents (reports, studies, policy briefs) which then are placed in a "documents" section on their web sites. The challenge these organizations face is then making these documents as widely accessed as possible.
One way to...
2 Nov 2009
We recently described how we use social media at Forum One. Today we'll talk about the category leader for posting and sharing PowerPoint presentations, SlideShare.
Since we're a consulting firm, we (and many of our clients) produce a lot of PowerPoints. Some of them are not too bad. We've used...
27 Oct 2009
At Forum One, we spend a lot of time thinking about social media: we run the Online Community Research Network, we lead many social media events every year, and we have provided consulting services to several hundred organizations. We have even published the...
