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Using multiple languages in taxonomies has always presented challenges, but SharePoint 2010 can help ease the pain. ... Read More

Taxonomy purists may disapprove, but companies can get a huge head start on building out their own taxonomies by using a pre-built taxonomy. ... Read More

Want your taxonomy in SharePoint 2010 to have an immediate impact on your business? Ask Me About is one sure way to improve findability... ... Read More

Why waste a bunch of time editing new terms in your SharePoint taxonomy when it's so easy to import them using Excel? ... Read More

Sometimes we have to use technology in ways it wasn't intended to meet a need or satisfy a client. Case in point... ... Read More

Everyone is still learning how to use the Term Store in SharePoint 2010, and here's another 90-second video about how to do a fairly easy function - merge terms - and why it should be done. ... Read More

No one wants to “own” terms in a taxonomy, until someone else does, then everyone wants to own it all. How do you solve this sticky political issue? ... Read More

How to reuse terms in the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Term Store Management Tool ... Read More

User-generated keyword tags is a cool new feature in SharePoint 2010, but how are these terms going to be managed across the enterprise?

The Situation ... Read More

In a recent post here, some members of the Rocket Labs team were talking about how to maintain the consistency of a taxonomy within SharePoint 2010 Term Store Management. It looks like the best way to do this might be to export the taxonomies out of Term Store, work on them in a more flexible tool, and to import them back in. This functionality does not exist in SharePoint 2010 today.

Fortunately, we’ve got some Rocket Labs ‘scientists’ at Ascentium looking into this.  And we think we have a solution. ... Read More