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Advanced Metadata Techniques in Page Layouts

By Chris Poteet on September 27, 2011

When SharePoint unveiled their web content management functionality in 2007, they included the practice on inline editing directly into the content management experience. While they were by no means the first to do so, I feel strongly that they did a very good job considering it was their first iteration of the technology. User interface […]

Posted in SharePoint, User Experience, User Interface | Tagged 2007, 2010, metadata, page layout, publishing, SharePoint Designer | Leave a response

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

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Advanced Metadata Techniques in Page Layouts

Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification

Sample MindMap for SharePoint Taxonomies

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