SharePoint 2010 allows users to tag list items, documents, pages, and external pages to help organize information using a flexible taxonomy system. Tags can be added to anything with a URL to help categorize and find content. Users can tag list items, documents, and SharePoint pages to add keywords and notes for categorization purposes.

1. Managing Metadata in SharePoint 2010 Peers Tech

2. SharePoint 2010 comes with a bunch of web 2.0 features, tags, tag clouds, rating, social bookmarking and enhanced blogs and wikis. This could lead to a confusing meta taxonomy. The web 2.0 wave is that tags and tag clouds are a great, simple and flexible way to organize information. Now with SharePoint 2010 this and much, much more comes out of the box. Tagging becomes one of the most significant concepts for building enterprise taxonomies in SharePoint 2010

3. What can be tagged? List Items (Terms, Keywords, Social Tags) Documents (Terms, Keywords, Social Tags) Pages (Terms, Keywords, Social Tags) External pages (Social Tags) This means everything that has an URL can be social tagged. Do you know anything in the web that hasn’t one?

4. Tag a list item or a document

5. Tag and note a SharePoint page