One of the most powerful means of filtering, sorting and searching information that has emerged as part of social computing is the use of “tags” to classify content of all types.

SharePoint designer will be used to create a Data View Web Part where results will be displayed.

“How many content types should you have?” This is the question that came up in a conference call on SharePoint architecture.

We’ve been doing a lot of work with SharePoint lately so I thought I’d put together a quick post on some approaches to implementing taxonomies in the new version

SharePoint is making inroads as an ECM or Records Management system, primarily because of its document library features, price, and integration with Office. But, for SharePoint to move beyond that and become the system to do document-centric transactional processing, you’ll need to customize and plan your SharePoint installation more carefully.

SharePoint supports document searching out-of-the box, but with some simple customizations, you can greatly improve the findability of documents.

It should not be of great surprise to anyone that Microsoft’s plan for SharePoint is to provide the foundation for access to all information in the enterprise. With SharePoint’s tightly coupled integration with the Office product, SharePoint’s popularity in collaboration and openness for developers and integrators, SharePoint is positioned to touch every single byte in your corporate network.

A SharePoint Governance model has the following components put in place to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint

setting up a way to host training related FLV video files on SharePoint and provide a SharePoint list which utilizes sorting, filtering, and grouping on metadata.

There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great tool for for classifying information, but it is incorrect to ask whether to use folders or metadata to organize information. Rather, it is more appropriate to ask when to use folders and when to use metadata.