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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
- Toby also regularly blogs & contributes to:
- www.eHealthNews.com
- www.GetStrat.com
- Content Matters (http://blog.ragan.com/contentmatters)
Recent Speaking Events
- Intranet 2.0 – Learnings from Europe - KMWorld 09
- Intranet 2.0 - J. Boye Conferences USA 09
- Planning for SharePoint Success (free online webinar presentation)
- The SharePoint (MOSS) for Communicators Online Workshop
- Pros and cons of SharePoint (MOSS 2007) - IntraTeam Event 2009
- "The merits of the intranet versus face-to-face communcations" - IntraTeam Event 2009
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
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- 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
- Web 2.0 becomes mandatory
- Intranet strategy: planning a successful intranet
- Selling an Intranet Redesign
- Why You should invest in your Intranet Now
- SharePoint: The Swiss Army Knife of portals
- What the experts say about SharePoint
- Web 2.0 Becomes Mandatory
- 5 reasons why Twitter will overtake Facebook
- Web Content Management Matures
Internet consultant, intranet consultant, and founder & CEO of Prescient Digital Media. Feel free to contact him through the Prescient main office at 416.926.8800.