Tagging External Links in SharePoint

One of the most successful Microsoft product SharePoint is becoming more and more center of our daily business lives. Users started with storing the documents, pictures, contacts, emails and then of course their bookmarks to a central location in SharePoint. Most of the time this location is their very own MySite.

Users are able to store their bookmarked links in the SharePoint and they can access whenever they want. These links could be an internal link right in the SharePoint farm or external link from outside of their farm. They can obviously copy and paste the URL of the link they would like to store right into a link list anytime. However in this blog post I would like to underline that there is another and much easier method available for them to bookmark a link utilizing SharePoint's tagging system.

Here how it works:

1. Go to your MySite, click "My Profile" link at the top navigation bar and then select "Tags and Notes".

2. Towards the bottom of the page there is a link says "Right click or drag and drop this link to your browser's favorites or bookmarks toolbar to tag external sites.". Just do as it says in the text, drag and drop this link to your browser's favorites or bookmarks toolbar.

3. Right click on the link and select add to favorites.

4. You can chose to give it a name you'd prefer also if you can add that into your Favorites Bar it would be accessible very easily. By clicking "Add" this will be added to your Internet Explorer's Favorites Bar.

5. Now it is time to test. Please go to a web site of your choice which you'd like to tag it in the SharePoint. While you are in the page please select "Tag in SharePoint" from your Internet Explorer's Favorites Bar.

6. After clicking the "Tag in SharePoint" SharePoint pops-up a new window and asks you to put your tags about this particular bookmark link. Please feel free to add all relevant tags for this bookmark because this will become handy when you are searching this bookmark later on.

7. And the here you go. Your bookmark is tagged in SharePoint.