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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

Counting Content Types

By Chris Poteet on October 13, 2009

Stephanie Lemieux wrote an interesting post about the optimal amount of content types to use in SharePoint. This is an interesting discussion, because I’m now fixing the content type taxonomy for a client because the original design firm didn’t give them enough granularity in their content types or metadata. I discuss along these lines with […]

Posted in Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, SharePoint, User Experience | Tagged content query, content types, metadata, taxonomy | Leave a response

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