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...
