The presentation below contains a walkthrough the basics of what are content types in SharePoint 2010 and what’s new. Enjoy!

Additional notes…

How to set-up Content Type Syndication Hubs

• Create a site collection to host the hub. (I create a standard one for all admin-y stuff – http://servername/sites/admin/
• At the root of the site collection, go into Site Settings | Site Collection Features and activate ‘Content Type Syndication Hub’
• Go to Central Admin | Manage Service Applications
• Select the Managed Metadata Service (not the connection and don’t click the URL, select by clicking to the side of it)
• Click on Properties in the ribbon and enter the URL for the syndication hub (http://servername/sites/admin/ and click OK
• Select the Managed Metadata Service Connector
• Click on Properties in the ribbon and check the box next to ‘Consumes content types from the…. (should show the URL)
• To see images showing the above steps, visit Setting up Content Type Syndication Hubs – Furuknap’s blog, Dec 09