Survey News & Articles

Enterprise Collaboration is on every organization's mind these days. How to encourage it, how to improve it. Chess Media Group is looking for your input into how you have used emerging tools and technologies to support enterprise collaboration in your organization.

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.

The survey focused on corporate practices for preserving information in litigation, identifying custodians of data, communicating legal holds, interviewing custodians and collecting potentially relevant data.

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.

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. Quite a read…

When the results are released, we shall see if Buytaert was right in his predictions for Drupal to be “one of the “big three” Open Source CMSs at the end of 2008.”

Here at CMSWire, we’ll be the first ones to tell you how awesome we, who work in the web and technology fields, are. As for data to back up our claim, well there’s not a lot of it. So, that’s why the folks at A List Apart, the webzine for web designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers and everyone else who makes websites has taken it upon themselves to once again survey us so that a “true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide” can be represented.

For “legit” print journalists, the day of reckoning may be approaching more quickly than any of us would like. A survey by web CMS vendor Polopoly reports that, according to European newspaper execs, 40 percent of published content will be user generated.

In the next three years.

Because of this, blogs and other “new media” commodities will become increasingly critical to the news-making populace. And with this trend, personalized online advertising opportunities are also expected to improve.

The University of California, Davis has been tinkering with the idea of implementing a Web content management system since 2005.

To help decide which road to take, the school initiated a survey of what other campuses were using. The results were published this week and offer valuable insight into who is currently winning the Web CMS war.

The results also betray how universities, which face among the greatest content management challenges of all, cope with web content issues.

Business Process Management (BPM), while in demand, isn’t yet implemented consistently or systematically across organizations — at least, not by those surveyed by the Enterprise Content Management Association’s Industry Watch study.

This was the overriding theme of “BPM: Not Just Workflow Anymore,” which was released this week.

Hey, champ. Ever wonder how your intranet stands up against another company’s? It’s probably tough to gauge, considering asking about another enterprise’s back-end is a little awkward.

With that devastating curiosity in mind, Intranet Dashboard just compiled a survey on global intranet use and trends that aims to answer all your burning questions.

SurveyGizmo has announced that their popular web survey and data collection tool can now can be used in your favorite Web CMS or blogging solution.