Scott Jamison

I’m currently in Vegas at the SharePoint Conference and have had a number of conversations with attendees about some of the new tagging features coming in SharePoint 2010.  In particular, SharePoint 2010 adds two key capabilities which impact how tagging will happen:

• The Managed Metadata Service (this will track folksonomy tags and enable companies to manage a central, hierarchical taxonomy)
• Social Tagging and Feedback (this will enable the community to tag a document, regardless of whether they have permissions to change the metadata columns on the document)

These features, while related, are very different. I’ll be following this up with another post on the detailed differences between managed keywords, managed terms, and social tags. If these features aren’t well understood (and their usage not governed properly), you won’t get the results you expect.

More to follow…stay tuned.

Interested in learning more about the next version of SharePoint? There are three new videos up on the Web where you can get a peek at some of the enhancements in SharePoint 2010.

In the first video, Tom Rizzo provides a 30-minute overview of some of the SharePoint 2010 investment areas, including the ribbon UI, new web features, and the SharePoint Workspace client.

In the second video, Richard Riley provides a 10-minute overview of the IT Pro investments in SharePoint 2010, including a streamlined Central Administration UI and new logging, throttling, and recovery options.

In the third video, Paul Andrew provides a 25-minute overview of the Developer investments in SharePoint 2010, including new tools like the developer dashboard and read/write access to data via Business Connectivity Services (formerly known as the BDC).

On the site, the team talks about how a public beta will be available later this year and that the final release will be available in H1 2010. Additional information is available on the FAQ portion of the site.