Findability
Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification
By Chris Poteet on May 23, 2011
Of all the posts I’ve done on this blog relating to SharePoint, my article denouncing folders is by far the most popular. I later wrote about improvements to folders in 2010, and this video is a culmination of those two posts. I was asked in the comments on the former post about a visual representation […]
Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint | Tagged content types, folders, metadata, navigation, views | 13 Responses
Sample MindMap for SharePoint Taxonomies
By Chris Poteet on November 24, 2010
I remember the first time I was shown the MindManager tool specifically for documenting enteprise-grade taxonomies. For too long tools like Excel had ruled the day, but tools like Excel and Word are too linear and not visual enough for complex taxonomies. Mindjet MindManager has since become my tool of choice for creating and document […]
Posted in Findability, Information Architecture, User Experience | Tagged content types, metadata, mindjet, mindmanager, sitemap, taxonomy, term store | 4 Responses
SharePoint 2010 and Folders
By Chris Poteet on November 29, 2009
The public beta of SharePoint 2010 is out there for all of us to try who don’t have privileged access, and so now starts the time of deciphering the impact the next version of this very important software package will have on us. One of the things that excites me the most is improvements in […]
Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint, User Experience | Tagged folders, metadata, views | 7 Responses