SharePoint is one of many enterprise solutions we employ, and to make it effective we must ensure that we take the steps necessary to fully understand our domains of knowledge.

Taxonomy managed in another tool outside of the SharePoint environment may be imported into SharePoint 2010.

Taxonomy management in SharePoint 2010 sees a significant improvement over functionality offered by the product’s predecessors.

Content Organizer is huge, and it builds upon other feature sets in SharePoint 2010 to make the overall experience very clean, simple, and results driven.

Fabian Williams has done a fabulous job explaining how to work with managed metadata in SharePoint 2010

Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010: its Impact on Taxonomy, Navigation and Search – Part 1: Focusing on Managed Metadata, Term Store, Navigation and Search

One of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint deployment is a well-defined taxonomy and metadata library.

Metadata represents the foundation for a large range of functionality across sites in SharePoint.

A large part of the functionality offered by SharePoint 2010 revolves around the idea of social collaboration in the enterprise through blogs, wikis, content syndication, discussions and social tagging

Tagging in SharePoint 2010 is approached from two perspectives, with the first originating from controlled vocabularies via Metadata Terms.