Taxodiary – SharePoint

SharePoint and Taxonomies – Part VI of VI

By Melody Smith|January 2nd, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on SharePoint and Taxonomies – Part VI of VI

Sharepoint is a popular software and comes free with the MicroSoft Server. In fact, I think Sharepoint, more than any other thing, has excited interest in taxonomies for people. Sharepoint 2010 has a taxonomy module and although it doesn’t have everything that your heart might wish for, it is a significant step forward. A lot of people have been trying to figure out exactly how to best use their taxonomy within the Sharepoint offering. This is one option.

Moving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier

By Melody Smith|December 29th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Moving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier

MetaVis Technologies has released a solution for migrating Google Apps to SharePoint or Office 365 - MetaVis Migrator for Google Apps. This new product allows users to migrate Google content to either a hosted or on-premise-based SharePoint solution while preserving metadata required for compliance and governance policies.

What is SharePoint Lacking?

By Melody Smith|December 6th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on What is SharePoint Lacking?

Microsoft has long been the provider of all things uniform and default in the technology world. Mac users have forever been screaming foul with few people listening to their frustrations. When it comes to content management systems, is SharePoint still the best practice model other systems should compare themselves to?

Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #5

By Melody Smith|November 25th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #5

We started this week discussing the blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site regarding myths about taxonomies and SharePoint. You can see my original argument here. Today, let’s talk about the final Myth, #5 - Taxonomies managed in the in the term store can be used everywhere in the SharePoint application.

Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #4

By Melody Smith|November 24th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #4

We are continuing our discussion on the blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site regarding myths about taxonomies and SharePoint. Today, let’s talk about Myth #4 - SharePoint taxonomies need to be comprehensive and finely grained.

Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #3

By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #3

We started this week debunking a blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site regarding myths about taxonomies and SharePoint. Today, let’s talk about Myth #3 - Librarians are the best people to handle SharePoint taxonomies.

Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #2

By Melody Smith|November 22nd, 2011|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #2

Yesterday, I addressed a blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site regarding myths about taxonomies and SharePoint and I shared my thoughts on Myth #1. Today, let’s talk about Myth #2 - Taxonomy is best left to the Projects Technical resources.

Five Myths about Taxonomy and SharePoint

By Melody Smith|November 21st, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Standards, Taxonomy|2 Comments

A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site. I enjoyed reading it, and of course I have a few thoughts and places where I do not exactly agree. Let me take them on this week. There are 5 Myths. I will write about each of them separately. Myth #1: SharePoint now has taxonomy management.

Webinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation

By Melody Smith|November 4th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Drilling down to the Challenges of a SharePoint taxonomy implementation” and will be held Wednesday, November 9th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

Metalogix Meets the Need for Speed

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2011|News|Comments Off on Metalogix Meets the Need for Speed

Metalogix Software released Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 as a solution to the ever-increasing growth of SharePoint farms, a situation that has only been around since the launch of SharePoint 2010.