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Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

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This week’s Follow Friday articles include ways to boost a SharePoint governance strategy, things to think about when deploying eDiscovery software in the cloud, and more.

Four Ways to Build Confidence in Your SharePoint Governance Strategy - CMSWire
By Christian Buckley

In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. 

Of the respondents, 67% viewed SharePoint governance as critical to the success of the platform, but only a mere 26% of respondents believed they have a well-defined strategy.

After conversations with customers and partners discussing the state of SharePoint within their organizations, the governance gap is clear and people are looking for reassurance that their planning is moving in the right direction.

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• Whitepaper: The Role of Collaboration Tools for SharePoint

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

It’s hard to imagine any single item that could please a web developer, an IT infrastructure manager, and an end user all at once. Ice cream or a good joke excepted, anything that makes one of these people happy usually makes at least one of the others miserable.

Tighten security to please the infrastructure maven, and you’ve made extra work for the developer and possibly compromised the user’s experience. Amp up the user experience and you’ve created bandwidth problems for the infrastructure maven and, again, more work for the web developer. (Everything makes more work for the web developer.)

Read more to see how a cloud document viewer makes everybody happy.

Every Friday we publish our "Follow Friday" series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Click the headline of each article to read the full story.

This week's Follow Friday articles include a challenge to the claim that HTML5 has performance problems, a plan from a UK health official to improve healthcare with barcodes, a case that SharePoint is leading the charge to the Cloud, and more.

HTML5's "performance issue" rubbished - .net
by Craig Grannell

Paul Bakaus, W3C AC representative for Zynga and creator of jQuery UI, has rubbished so-called "HTML5 performance issues". In a blog post titled "No, HTML5 does not have a performance issue", Bakaus argued against those within the industry that dismiss the technology because it doesn't run well in older kit and said this "has to stop".

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• HTML5 vs Flash - What You Need to Know, Part 1
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Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Click the headline of each article to read the full story.

This week’s Follow Friday articles includes the Financial Times’ implementation of HTML5, 10 future predictions for SharePoint, how fast search features are driving enterprise productivity in SharePoint, and more.

Financial Times: "There is no drawback to working in HTML5" - TheGuardian 
By Stuart Dredge

Nearly two years since the Financial Times launched its HTML5 web app in June 2011, mobile devices continue to be an important driver for the company's business, accounting for a third of the FT.com website's traffic and 15% of digital subscriptions.

When the FT first switched from native to HTML5 on iOS in 2011, it was seen in some quarters as a snub to Apple. Although that was partly true – the FT and Apple disagreed over control of subscriber data – a more important reason was the desire to make porting and maintaining the app across multiple platforms and devices easier in the longer term.

Two years on, Rob Grimshaw, managing director, says the strategy is proving a success. "I challenge anyone to tell the difference between our HTML5 app and a native app. There is no drawback to working in HTML5, and there are lots of advantages," he says.

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

This week’s Follow Friday articles include how companies will approach SharePoint and records management, HTML5 Dev Conference, the case of barcodes on election ballots and more.

SharePoint or No, Organizations Need to Rethink Approach to Records Management - CMSWIRE
By Joe Shepley

In the last post, I called it like I seen it: SharePoint out of the box can’t do records management. 2007, 2010, 2013 — none of ‘em left to their own devices are worth much when it comes to automating the retention and (more importantly) disposition of your records according to the retention schedule.

But as if that weren't provocative enough, I also argued that, regardless of system (SharePoint, IBM FileNet/P8/CMOD, EMC Documentum, OpenText, Hyland OnBase, whatever), and regardless of the capabilities of that system, pretty much no one is actually doing real records management on their electronic content.

This Week’s Links: HTML5 Dev Conf Edition - The New York Times
By  Andre Behrens

Last week, I attended the HTML5 Dev Conf in San Francisco. Overall the event was quite illuminating; I got a strong sense of where the web development community sees itself, and where it would like to go. This week’s links are to slides of talks I heard, as well as some I couldn’t attend but heard good things about. This is by no means an exhaustive list.  

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.