by Toby Ward | Oct 4, 2019
Tags: communications technology, digital workplace, employee communications, internal communications, intranet, technology for communicators
Corporate communications, according to the latest crowd-sourced definition on Wikipedia, ”is a set of activities involved in managing and orchestrating all internal and external communications aimed at creating favorable point of view among stakeholders on which the company depends.” Wrong. If this is your definition of corporate communications, you are failing as a communicator. The notion that […]
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by Toby Ward | May 25, 2019
Microsoft SharePoint has conquered the enterprise intranet. Although the conquest is never as bloody nor expensive as more invasive wars, such as those by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, intranet users are not always thrilled by the structure and usability of SharePoint under Gates Khan. Though not used for conquering, SharePoint is used by many communicators as the […]
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by Toby Ward | Sep 27, 2018
Tags: Office 365, sharepoint, sharepoint 2019, SharePoint consultant, sharepoint intranet
Microsoft rules the enterprise technology market. Email, operating systems, office productivity tools (think Word and Office), and now the intranet, with Microsoft SharePoint. They don’t just want your business, they want to run your business, and own the digital workplace. Now some 17-years-old, SharePoint continues to rapidly grow and infiltrate the enterprise: 200,000+ organizations use […]
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by Toby Ward | May 21, 2018
Tags: Office 365, sharepoint, sharepoint 2019, sharepoint conference
“At the center of digital transformation, isn’t technology, it’s people,” says Seth Patton, GM, for Microsoft Office 365 Product Marketing, opening up this year’s SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. “It’s about fostering a culture of work and embracing workplace trends.” Good to know that Microsoft gets it; the intranet is more about people and process […]
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by Toby Ward | Nov 20, 2017
Tags: bayer intranet, cigna intranet, digital workplace content, digital workplace lessons, digital workplace webinar, google digital workplace, Google intranet, INTRANET CONSULTANT, intranet design, intranet webinar
Content is still king. If there was one over-arching lesson from the 2017 Digital Workplace & Intranet Global Forum is that content, in all its forms, should be the apple of any digital workplace manager’s eye. It’s what employees want, and why they visit the intranet. No one goes to the digital workplace because they […]
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by Toby Ward | Sep 27, 2017
Tags: office 2019, sharepoint 2019, sharepoint hub sites, sharepoint intranet
For the first time ever, Microsoft announced a timeline, albeit an approximate one, for expecting the next version of SharePoint. SharePoint 2019 will be rolled-out, with Office 2019, in preview form by mid-2018, with the full version not expected until the end of next year. Expect that the new version will have an enhanced look-and-feel, […]
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