Toby Ward is an intranet and digital workplace expert, consultant, writer and speaker, and Founder of Prescient Digital Media. He has specialized expertise in enterprise strategy, planning, governance, communications and content management for intranets and the digital workplace. He has …
Some timely articles on the intranet consulting profession:  READ: 10 things to ask your intranet consultant Avoiding dangerous intranet consultants How to hire an intranet consultant Hiring an intranet consultant or manager  Key Responsibilities of An Intranet Consultant: …
I bet you thought I was going to tell you what technology to buy (or download for free) to power your intranet 2.0? I wouldn’t know where to begin… There are now thousands of social media technology solutions in the …
Is your intranet ‘social’? Or is it antiquated? Social media on the intranet (Intranet 2.0) are present on about half of all intranets (in the Western World). Once a nice-to-have or a future wish, Intranet 2.0 tools such as …
In convening focus groups for a government health portal we (Prescient Digital Media) we built (and would eventually win a Webby Award for) I discovered a few universal truths about websites, one of which we all have to keep learning …
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1- SharePoint will continue to dominate All hail the king, SharePoint. SharePoint has become the single biggest, most pervasive intranet platform of all time (present in 50 – 60% of all medium to large-size organizations). While SharePoint is still …
Employees may waste too much time on the intranet; social media wastes time; the Internet is a productivity drain. These are common refrains and concerns expressed by many executives, albeit the less educated ones, generally of an older generation, nearing …
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The Global Intranet Trends for 2010 report, the annual report from Jane McConnell, NetStrategy/JMC, has been released and is fittingly subtitled ‘Towards the workplace web’. “Towards the workplace web reflects what is happening today in intranets around the world …
It matters little what technology powers a blog. Don’t ask me whether Drupal is better than SharePoint, or if WordPress is better than Blogger. If you ask such a question then you’re likely consigning yourself to failure. If you ask …
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