Planning and organizing SharePoint lab in a virtual environment. Organizing a “SharePoint team”
Planning your sites with Mind Manager. Simple, easy, effective use cases and scenarios you could deploy to your intranet site. Creating KPIs on top of Windows SharePoint Services
Using simple web parts and scripts to change SharePoint UI: collapse quick launch, adjust a web part size automatically, add menu items, create preview panes and much more

In this week’s installment, you won’t see any Mind Mapping as I describe my approach to explaining the meaning and value of metadata to stakeholders (Site owners, content owners and contributors).

After my initial introduction to mind mapping with MindManager, last week I introduced the idea of using mind mapping techniques for Building Navigational Taxonomies

I use Mindjet’s MindManager for Mind Mapping. There are other options out there, but I’ve been very happy with MindManager
Designing the navigation of your SharePoint site is a task that can be difficult and drawn-out. There are often competing visions of how the site should look and political pressures from managers who want to ensure that their place in the hierarchy is as prominent as possible. By default, there is often a temptation to have the structure of the site mirror the structure of the org-chart. This may seem easy at first, but will cause problems in the long run.

MindManager (MM) has changed my life as a SharePoint consultant, and I want to show you how you can use it for:
- Building navigational taxonomies
- Brainstorming requirements and project prioritization
- Building document and site taxonomies