Missing Out On Metadata In Your SharePoint Document Management?

Missing Out On Metadata In Your SharePoint Document Management?:

One the challenges we have at work is the impulse to import all of our existing documents into our SharePoint environment.  The idea of moving all of the file share stored documentation into SharePoint seems like a win win on the surface.  However the truth is that with out careful consideration nothing could be farther form the truth.

If you want your knowledge workers to never complain about the sprawl of file shares then put of all your documents into a doc library with default settings and with no other preparation.  Sticking files into SharePoint with out incorporating an input governance program as well as a metadata strategy will provide you with little benefit toward find-ability and knowledge management.

The article explains how metadata can make the documents in SharePoint really take advantage of the benefits of SharePoint.