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Toby Ward
President & CEO
The founder and CEO of Prescient Digital Media, Toby is a senior Internet and intranet consultant with particular expertise in the area of Internet and intranet planning and communications. A specialist in web and intranet planning and measurement, Toby has led his company to many awards in recent years including an illustrious Webby Award.
A frequent speaker and writer, Toby has contributed to two books and has a third in the works. He speaks at many conferences across the globe and has worked with many big name clients spanning many different industries, including:
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A broadcast journalist turned consultant, Toby founded and launched Prescient in early 2001.
A recognized North American expert on effective web planning, communication, benchmarking and best practice measurement (ROI), Toby is the author of Finding ROI, a leading study conducted on intranet Return on Investment that included participants such as KPMG, Scotiabank, Volvo, Shell, Royal Bank, New York Life, HP and others. Leading companies such as the New York Times, Intel, PBS, the Bank of Canada and many others have bought his white paper that has been read by thousands.
Toby is a popular speaker across North America at conferences by the Conference Board, IQPC, IABC, Ragan, and others. He is also a regular blogger at IntranetBlog, GetStrategic, Communitelligence.com, and Ragan.com.
He has led Prescient Digital Media and clients to win 15 awards from the International Association of Business Communicators, Canadian Public Relations Society, a the 2004 Webby Award for Best Government + Law Website on the Internet (for HealthyOntario.com).
- Read his primary blog: www.IntranetBlog.com
- Follow Toby on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/tobyward
- Join his Facebook group, Intranet Global Forum
- Join his LinkedIn group, Twitter for Communicators
- View some of Toby's presentations on Toby's Slideshare channel
Recent Speaking Events
- Intranet 2.0 – Learnings from Europe - KMWorld 09
- Intranet Design - A Business Approach to a Winning Design
- Intranet Governance - How To Run An Intranet
- Intranet 2.0 - J. Boye Conferences USA 09
Recommendations
“I have never met a more talented technologist, salesperson and nice guy. I just watch in awe. I couldn't even aspire to achieve what he has. Talent like that is almost impossible to find today.”
– Alix Edmiston, RBC
"Toby Ward has a reputation for being a leading edge web strategy advisor, and after working with Toby, I can confirm that this reputation is fully deserved. Toby contributed an unparalleled level of analysis and insight that proved to be crucial direction for our organization’s web evaluation and redesign project."
“I have spoken at conferences on portals and intranets with Toby and found him to be an engaging speaker with very current knowledge and excellent real work examples.”
– Geoff Le Quelenec, Suncor Energy
In the Media
- Global Intranet report found that organizations without a 2.0 strategy risk outright failure
- Launch an intranet before its too late
- Blogs connect CEOs with employees and clients
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How to deal with an internal comms team member that is hindering progress
- Web 2.0 @ Work
- IABC Conference Update asks Toby Ward "How do experts write for the screen"
- Selecting a Wiki
Recent Articles
- 8 ingredients of a great executive blog
- Intranet in the cloud
- Intranet 2.0: the investment vs satisfaction corollary
- 5 reasons to follow you on Twitter; 5 reasons to unfollow
- Innovate or die
- Intranet Governance: Ownership, Management & Policy
- Web 2.0 becomes mandatory
- Intranet strategy: planning a successful intranet
- Selling an Intranet Redesign