Toby Ward

The founder and CEO of Prescient Digital Media, Toby is an internationally recognized and acclaimed expert in the areas of communications, enterprise technology, intranets, and digital workplaces. Toby has served dozens of clients in the retail, hospitality, technology and media sectors including AMC, CBC, HSBC, Harvard Business, RBC Financial, USAA, and dozens more. A frequent speaker and writer, he speaks at many conferences across the globe and is the founder and chair of the Digital Workplace & Intranet Global Forum conferences in New York City. He is the founder and chief blogger of IntranetBlog.com,

Nexus of Intranet Success

The commitment, rigor and resources required to build and maintain a successful intranet or portal are significant. And while a successful intranet does not necessarily require a lot of money per se, there are many, many facets

Blogging to employees

Some inventive and enterprising organizations like Alaska Airlines and the U.S. Army used to maintain their intranet home page on the public Internet (though they

Companies are taking the intranet more seriously?

“Companies seem to be taking news much more seriously,” says Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen-Norman Group in an interview with Richmond.com (Communication at Work).   I have a lot of respect for Dr. Nielsen

Free Sharepoint & more Web 2.0 mediocrity

An interesting post I did a couple of days ago on the free version of Windows Sharepoint Services and the surprising breadth of available features (from Setting-up a free Sharepoint intranet: