scottsdale az 1998 headquarters scottsdale arizona usa key people daniel morrison co founder 1 george krautzel co founder dave moylan president parent ziff davis media website www.toolbox.com toolbox.com is a network of online business to business communities geared at professionals working in the information technology human resources and finance fields allowing online collaboration between professionals utilizing discussion groups blogs and wikis . after being acquired by the corporate executive board company in 2007 toolbox.com was bought by ziff davis in january 2012 . history edit toolbox.com was founded in 1998 as ittoolbox one of the first online communities enabling professionals to share knowledge about information technology . co founder daniel morrison justified the need for ittoolbox saying that the site helps professionals do their job better by tapping each other for insight and help . 2 in 2007 ittoolbox was acquired by the corporate executive board company with daniel morrison retaining a managing role in the site . following the acquisition ittoolbox was renamed toolbox for it the site as a whole was renamed toolbox.com and in november and december 2008 respectively toolbox.com officially launched two new communities for human resources and finance . 1 morrison considered the addition of a financial community to its network to be a key asset especially due to the effects of the 2008 financial crisis 2 in 2012 ziff davis media announced that it had acquired toolbox.com for an unspecified amount . the company will incorporate toolbox.com into its b2b operations b2b focus which was formed by its acquisition of focus research . 3 references edit a b patrick o grady 2009 01 05 . toolbox.com launches industry specific web sites . phoenix business journal . retrieved 2009 01 05 . a b thomas heath 2007 08 16 . corporate executive board buys ittoolbox . the washington post . retrieved 2008 11 27 . ziff davis acquires toolbox.com . business wire . 2012 01 03 . retrieved 2013 12 05 . external links edit official website v t e ziff davis current properties askmen computer shopper extremetech geek.com ign logicbuy pc magazine offers.com speedtest.net toolbox.com former properties discontinued 1up . com amazing stories computer gaming world electronic gaming monthly fantastic gamenow games for windows gmr official playstation magazine pc computing popular electronics teamxbox zdtv ugo networks vault network yahoo internet life sold car and driver rottentomatoes zdnet people dan costa retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title toolbox.com & oldid 647144323 categories community websitesinformation technology navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 20 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view