In this new weekly feature we’ll be highlighting interesting developments, original insights, useful tips, and other items we hope you’ll find of value. Please feel free to alert us to interesting articles that we can consider for inclusion in next week’s round-up.

Big Brother is watching: companies snoop e-mail to combat leaks
Forrester Consulting conducted a survey that showed that 44% of company decision-makers conducted investigations to find information leaks from their employees’ email accounts. But that’s not all that companies want to investigate. According to this Ars Technica article on the survey, “Businesses are also increasingly concerned about the risks posed by blogging, social networking sites, and instant messaging.”

Google Docs ventures closer to Word territory with print view
The new “print view” feature of Google Docs allows users to look at their documents in the same way they would via MS Word’s “Page Layout” view or “Print Preview”. This article points out why this new feature is good news: “On wide-screen displays, [the old viewing sysem] often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display–something that wouldn’t be noticed until it was printed out or sent to another medium where the width was sized down to something reasonable.”

The Fastest Talking Guy in Social Media Tells Us Where All of This Might Be Going
Peter Shankman shares a few predictions on the future of social media, including “a convergence into one tool that helps you manage your entire network from any device at any time and automates the process for you.”

UK to streamline identity theft with data retention proposal
According to this article from Ars Technica, the British Government wants to centralize the data-retention of UK telecom companies. “Under the new proposal, these records would have to be automatically submitted to a centralized government database. The government believes this will facilitate law enforcement access to the information, although a court order would still be required to access it.”

TextFlow’s Shiny Document Collaboration System
TextFlow is a new Flash-based online app that allows its users to share, collaborate, and edit documents – much like Google Docs, but with some extra features. “…authors will be able to drag Word documents right into the browser where they’ll get automatically ported into TextFlow. Once there, they’ll be shareable via email and editable by collaborators. All changes will show up in the original author’s view of the document as suggested changes, which can then be approved or rejected.”

9 Firefox Extensions to Protect Your Privacy
If you want to protect your online privacy, Mozilla Firefox has several extensions that can help you achieve that. This list from Web Worker Daily contains 9 extensions that will make your internet surfing more secure.

Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential
What exactly is Enterprise 2.0 and how does it affect your company’s IT department? This article from Dion Hinchcliffe states that “we seem to be coming from a push-based era of command-and-control management and are heading into an era where more and more work is being conducted using a decentralized pull-based model that’s more scalable, efficient, and leads to increasingly innovative outcomes.”

What do Millennials teach us about the future of the workplace?
“This generation of Americans will have an enormous impact on the future landscape of the workforce”, says blogger Aaron Green, who discusses how Millennials (Gen Y) are going to affect the workplace.

How Twitter Can Work in a Corporate Environment
Zappos is doing a great job of keeping both employees and customers happy with Twitter. According to The FASTForward Blog, “This is a company that’s bursting with personality, to the point where a huge number of its 1,600 employees are power users of Twitter so that their friends, colleagues, and customers know what they’re up to at any moment in time.”

Running a Brainstorm in a Virtual Space
This article is a great guide on how organizations can run successful brainstorming sessions online. “When we can’t be together…how do we translate the guidelines of brainstorming to work facilitated by collaborative tools? “