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Many of today's corporate environments are embracing enterprise CMS solutions as a way to disseminate and share information amongst workers and workgroups. Microsoft SharePoint is a popular choice because it aligns well with an existing Microsoft-powered network and project groups’ workflow. However, according to new research from Courion, companies who are deploying SharePoint are doing so in a manner that might be putting crucial data at risk.

CGOC, a practitioners' forum focused on records retention and preservation practices, and Huron Consulting Group, a provider of financial and operational consulting services, released the results of a “first-of-its-kind survey” on legal holds and eDiscovery practices.

Let's face it, insurance is not cheap these days. People who work freelance have it even worse. The Freelancers Union -- an organization for freelancers that aims to help provide low-cost health, dental, disability and life insurance -- wants to help change that. The Freelancers Union currently has a survey that freelancers can participate in to help the Union's efforts.

ITtoolbox, the online community for IT professionals, announced the results of the latest IT Social Media Index that looks at IT folks under the microscope to examine everything from career motivations and major life influences to media consumption habits and personal preferences. Turns out, we are most thankful to our fathers, not fond of company politics, prefer Obama to McCain and are salivating over blu-ray players -- among other things.

Toby Ward of Prescient Digital Media writes a blog called Intranet 2.0, which is consistently full of useful strategies for those who build, maintain, and manage internally facing corporate sites. He’s currently running a survey, which you should take 10 minutes or so to fill out: What’s in it for you?: Respondents who complete the survey will be eligible to win $400 (a random email address will be drawn from all responses to the survey). All respondents will also receive a full copy of the results at no cost. Please provide your contact information in order to receive the survey results.

Tell Drupal how they are doing by taking the State of Drupal 2008 Survey. The results will be presented by Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, at DrupalCon Szeged 2008 conference in Szeged, Hungary, on August 27-30, 2008. The goal of the survey is to better understand what Drupal needs to work on and how to prioritize all of that. It is mostly targeted towards Drupal developers. So, don’t delay, speak up and tell Drupal what you want! Also, check out the Drupalers and survey-takers’ rants and ramblings about the survey and Drupal in general here.

Some impressive official stats about open source use in Canada: "Open source" software is rising in popularity, according to survey data. Open source software is software for which the underlying source code is readily available for modification by any interested person or firm. In 2007, an estimated 17% of private sector firms reported using open source software, up from about 10% just two years earlier, when this practice was first measured. As in previous years, about one-half of organizations in the public sector reported using open source software in 2007. An advantage of open source software is flexibility, allowing users to customize or modify the software to their specific needs. In 2007, 3% of private firms and 13% of public organizations reported customizing open source software.

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