How Audience Research Can Help Your Organization

Understanding who interfaces with your organization, and who uses your website, is critical for designing an experience that works for everyone. It’s no secret that audience research and usability testing are at the heart of designing digital experiences. As user experience design professionals, we make it our life’s work to… Read More

Global Innovation Exchange Nominated for ACT-IAC Igniting Innovation Award

The Global Innovation Exchange has been nominated for an ACT-IAC Igniting Innovation Award. The Global Innovation Exchange is a community of over 15,000 innovators, entrepreneurs and investors connecting to address humanity’s greatest challenges. Forum One built the “Exchange” platform for USAID. Forum One helped ensure the success of… Read More

Revving up for DrupalCon in Baltimore!

It’s already time for the next DrupalCon! Forum One is as excited as ever to be sponsoring and speaking at this annual get together of the best minds in Drupal. Will we see you there? Taking place close to home for the Forum One team, we are getting excited to… Read More

See You at #17NTC in Washington, DC!

We’re thrilled that this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is taking place here in Washington, DC from March 23rd-25th. Forum One will be attending in full force and we look forward to seeing you in the conference sessions, exhibition hall and various social events. But more specifically, where can you… Read More

Forum One’s Art Director Featured on 28 Days of Black Designers

As part of Black History Month, we are thrilled and proud to see Forum One’s Art Director, Corey Jones, featured as part of the 2017 28 Days of Black Designers, a project by Tim Hykes that spotlights the stories of black thought leaders and trailblazers from… Read More

Good Data Visualization Practices: Dot Plots and Kin

A bit ago I glanced at my son was doing his math homework and noted that he was doing simple data visualization. One of the charts he had to make was a dot plot. “Huh,” I thought, “why’d they pick that one?” The experience got me to thinking, though, and,… Read More

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