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Published inJan 2011
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Setting up a tag cloud and navigating to the Term Store


Social tagging is a feature of SharePoint 2010 that brings immediate business value. As your users traverse sites, they have the ability to tag pages with the help of the I Like It button, found in the upper right corner of a page. At the same time, other users of the same sites can tag pages.

SharePoint uses tags as a way to help users describe content. As users of a site tag information, these tags accrue as metadata. A database of this metadata is kept within SharePoint. With the new managed metadata service, a user can begin typing in a new tag and a list of suggestions will appear. Users can then either use a suggested tag or create one of their own.

Using a tag cloud, the web part allows the user to see all their tags, and each tag is presented as a link to the associated content. This becomes a navigational component.

In this recipe, we will see how to set up a tag cloud and the associated Term Store it consumes. This will give...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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