SharePoint's most availing attribute has nothing to do with its features, functions, or custom sleights of hand. The best thing about it? It's that ever-engulfing big SharePoint tent. You can't reach out for a referral or show up at a local workshop without enlisting a new ECM ally...
If you are not sure of what to do or how to begin, seek expertise from a consultant or training that will help clarify and guide you on how to identify business requirements, build taxonomies and formulate a metadata strategy that is focused on SharePoint
What is your metadata strategy? Is your security aligned properly with your information architecture for managing both physical and electronic information?
Do you have an established taxonomy and metadata strategy in place? You might for records but I am talking about your content
What about taxonomic structure, metadata strategies and security schemes?
There still is room for tagging, and it does not have to be social, it can be very much mandated and strict like a taxonomy or a formal metadata strategy. Yes, employees should be happy and satisfied with their jobs, but they also have a job to do, and experimentation with wikis and corporate blogs should be left to the willing individuals until a real business case can be made for the widespread use!
Have you adopted a metadata strategy? This is a key component of your search strategy, but concentrates more around understanding the kinds of content/data/artifacts within your system
Myself and others have written at length on the importance of defining a proactive metadata strategy as part of your SharePoint (or any ECM/ERM platform) strategy
There are some "universal truths" that should be considered as you begin planning your metadata strategy: Metadata is fundamental to making social, knowledge management, and collaboration (certainly document management) work The business dynamics of how Information Workers capture, consume, and interact with data are changing Social tools are just another layer of the search experience Organizations don’t understand, much less track and measure, user productivity Three of these four points are clearly visible within SharePoint's social features, all of which center around keywords and metadata -- and can take advantage of your organization's taxonomy structure
As I learned in my research for the SharePoint Reality Series most enterprises have no metadata strategy. Their taxonomies extend no further than their org charts and parts catalogs