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Hiring an intranet consultant or manager

Toby Ward — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:10:00 -0500

“8 of 10 hires are hired for their knowledge and technical skills,” says Edgar Papke, CEO of Living Change. “9 out of 10 fires are for poor teamwork and interpersonal skills.”

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Converting paper forms to intranet forms

Toby Ward — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:25:00 -0500

Despite the advances in technology and the potentially massive benefits and impressive ROI accrued from converting paper-based forms to online submission, many intranets still host a majority of their forms in MS-Word and PDF.

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Poor intranet policy management could lead to lawsuits

Toby Ward — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:21:00 -0500

New research shows that nearly 50% of UK organisations could be leaving themselves open to litigation through managing their corporate policies primarily on the intranet.

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6 timely intranet resolutions

Toby Ward — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:19:00 -0500

t’s a little late for New Year’s resolutions, but we’re still early in the budget year for most (or near the end for others). Nonetheless, the intranet is usually in a state of improvement.

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5% of your website delivers 25% of the value

Toby Ward — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:49:00 -0500

“The Long Neck is where the business case of your websites lies. It is the small, crucial set of tasks and content that your customers really come to your website for...

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Intranet key to good HR

Toby Ward — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:39:00 -0500

The value of a really good intranet is considerable and immense. While usage, ROI, and employee satisfaction are typical and traditional performance measure for the intranet, the intranet is also leading to improved retention and job satisfaction.

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Intranet design is important, but not that important

Toby Ward — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:04:00 -0500

The world’s biggest intranet, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet serves more than 500,000 users. The end users are happy with the intranet – whether its dependability, support, or the ability to find information – user satisfaction is about 70%. Mission accomplished. Or is it?

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Intranet as a shopping mall (for ROI)

Toby Ward — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:05:00 -0500

Intranets don’t deliver good ROI; applications deliver great ROI. Or so we’re told.

The intranet benefits applications as the mall benefits stores. Intranets drive traffic to applications which reap the big ROI.

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Why you should or shouldn’t choose Microsoft Sharepoint

Toby Ward — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:03:00 -0500

I receive many, many questions about different content management systems and portal products and asked for my opinions on one product or vendor versus another. The number one vendor I’m questioned about is Microsoft, particularly Sharepoint.

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Good to great intranet

Toby Ward — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:22:00 -0500

What is the difference between a good intranet and a great intranet? What do you do to get to great?

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The end of internal communications

Toby Ward — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:20:00 -0500

The intranet is not a communications tool; nor a technology. And it’s certainly not just a website. The intranet is a business system to support the entire company. It touches and represents all facets of the business, and if executed properly, improves all aspects of the business.

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Standards for Good Intranet & Extranet Design

Toby Ward — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:32:00 -0500

Dave Pollard’s 16 standards for improving or constructing an effective intranet.

Standards for Good Intranet & Extranet Design

Too much useless information

Toby Ward — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:31:00 -0500

Middle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong, according to results of an Accenture study.

Too much useless information

The intranet wish list for Santa

Toby Ward — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:12:00 -0500

Any of you fellow parents out there know that the wish list letter to Santa is a big deal. My daughter Rachel had her letter in the mail on December 1. Anything Barbie or Bratz is an instant winner. Frankly, I think they all look like cheap harlots.

The intranet wish list for Santa

Identity management saves UPS a bundle

Toby Ward — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:34:00 -0500

The number one most repeated call to your IT help desk relates to a forgotten password. Give your employees the tools to get their own password without having to engage an expensive techie, and you could save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Identity management saves UPS a bundle

Changing intranet, changing attitudes

Toby Ward — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:25:00 -0500

An intranet is about 20% technology, 80% people and process. To change or redesign the intranet has in fact little to do with design, and everything to do with change management.

Changing intranet, changing attitudes

BA wins, Vista hopes to win & the digital workplace

Toby Ward — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:03:00 -0500

BA technology strategy holds the key at Heathrow’s Terminal 5

The digital workplace

Top 5 scariest intranet tales

Windows Vista, history’s “biggest IT project”

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Portals, satellites and blogging

Toby Ward — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:28:00 -0400

The hype of personalized portals

Portals Show Signs of Sanity
Feds reach out to remote employees through satellite technology
Blogging Intelligence

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Intranet redesign, wiring a town, KMWorld 2006

Toby Ward — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:28:00 -0400

Leading an intranet redesign

Town looks to wire intranet on Comcast’s dime

KMWorld & Intranets Returns to San Jose with Added Content

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