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Effective Taxonomy Governance, Part 3: The Enterprise’s Role
by Brian LeBlanc, Term Management Taxonomist The key to successfully creating, implementing and maintaining a taxonomy in an organization is having an effective governance plan. The governance plan is the road map that coordinates the efforts of everyone involved as they go through the phases of developing a taxonomy that is fully integrated with the … Continue reading
Effective Taxonomy Governance, Part 2: The System’s Role
by Brian LeBlanc, Term Management Taxonomist The key to successfully creating, implementing and maintaining a taxonomy in an organization is having an effective Taxonomy Governance Plan. The governance plan is the road map that coordinates the efforts of everyone involved as they go through the phases of developing a taxonomy that is fully integrated with … Continue reading
SharePoint 2013: Bulk Editing Metadata in a Document Library
Bulk editing metadata tags in a SharePoint 2010 Document Library was a tantalizing dream. We thought we could do it using the Datasheet View, but were disappointed when we were told “No way.” Enter SharePoint 2013 and the Quick Edit view! Check out this video to see how to edit metadata tags in a snap. This … Continue reading
Effective Taxonomy Governance, Part 1: The Taxonomist’s Role
by Brian LeBlanc, Term Management Taxonomist The key to successfully creating, implementing and maintaining a taxonomy in an organization is having an effective Taxonomy Governance Plan. The governance plan is the road map that coordinates the efforts of everyone involved as they go through the phases of developing a taxonomy that is fully integrated with … Continue reading
Creating a Taxonomy Governance Checklist
Due to the dynamic nature of human language, good taxonomies must grow and change over time in order to remain relevant to their target users: people trying to find information. The life cycle of a taxonomy includes much more than just the initial taxonomy development, and keeping this entire life cycle in mind from the … Continue reading
Creating and Managing Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010: User Questions, Part II
This is the second of two posts addressing common, and important, questions concerning the development and implementation of a taxonomy in SharePoint 2010. (Here’s the previous post). Sure, we know SharePoint 2013 is just around the corner (and already here for some of you), but lots of companies are just now getting up to speed … Continue reading
Creating and Managing Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010: User Questions
Sure, SharePoint 2013 is almost here (and already here for some of you), but lots of companies are just now getting up to speed with SharePoint 2010 – and getting their first exposure to the Term Store Management Tool, the tool for creating and managing taxonomies within SharePoint. This is the first of two posts … Continue reading
Information Management: 5 Taxonomy Must Haves for Your Organization
The art and science of organizing terms and terminology – taxonomy — has recently gained a lot of buzz in corporate tech circles, so much so that taxonomy consultants like me no longer have to explain that we’re not about stuffing recently expired animals to make them appear life-like in their natural habitat. No, we don’t have … Continue reading
Governing a Taxonomy in an Enterprise CMS
The more time I spend with clients working on taxonomies within a CMS, the more I realize that the real challenge isn’t technical per se (even though CMS platforms out there aren’t really “taxonomy friendly” just yet). It isn’t even designing and building the taxonomy itself, although that does present a lot of challenges and … Continue reading
Using Taxonomies to Drive Intranet User Adoption
Many companies face the challenge of getting their customers the right product at the right time. And many companies employ a taxonomy to help drive product sales and improve findability on consumer-facing public websites. Check out wine.com or bestbuy.com to see some good examples of taxonomies used to improve the overall customer experience. Taxonomy Development … Continue reading
