Guest Column: How Your SharePoint Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do

By Christian Buckley, Axceler

Unfortunately, for many users, the importance of a strong metadata and taxonomy strategy is unclear. But beneath the most common SharePoint features are metadata and keyword taxonomy implications that can have a significant impact on the success of your deployment. Popular features such as: adding documents to a library, participating in an enterprise workflow, and finding technical expertise through some of the new social search features in SharePoint 2010 can fail miserably without taking metadata and taxonomy into account. Without a solid metadata strategy, you will hinder your ability to leverage the full functionality of SharePoint. In fact, it's the number one reason why SharePoint deployments fail to take hold in the end user population.