Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

Leaning Into AI

By |May 30th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Leaning Into AI

Old fear and conspiracies have been resurrected with the focus on artificial intelligence (AI). It is such a broad term that those ignorant of […]

Science and Publishing

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Evaluating scientific quality is a notoriously difficult problem which has no standard solution. Ideally, published scientific results should be scrutinized by true experts in […]

Digital and Taxonomies

By |May 29th, 2023|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Digital and Taxonomies

Digital media of all kinds have become an increasingly significant part of our everyday experience. Every day, we consume and interact with photos, audio […]

Book Banning and Academic Publishing

By |May 29th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Book Banning and Academic Publishing

We don’t and still aren’t delving into the world of politics. When it comes to censoring and trying to regulate content and publishing, however, […]

Digging Deeper Into Taxonomies

By |May 29th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Digging Deeper Into Taxonomies

Understanding taxonomies and how they are used can be challenging, depending on the context and audience. The Accidental Taxonomist brought this interesting topic to […]

Trusting the Data

By |May 26th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Trusting the Data

Data is swiftly overtaking physical assets in terms of value to organizations. Keeping data safe, private, consistent, and of high quality is as important […]

Roadblocks to Data Analytics

By |May 26th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Roadblocks to Data Analytics

Data democratization is the ongoing process of enabling everybody in an organization, irrespective of their technical know-how, to work with data comfortably, to feel […]

The Digital Age and Taxonomies

By |May 26th, 2023|News|Comments Off on The Digital Age and Taxonomies

A clear taxonomy keeps your content organized and allows your audience to easily find it through either the navigation structure on your website or […]

Letting Data Analytics Work for You

By |May 25th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Letting Data Analytics Work for You

Data analytics has the power to transform how organizations operate, manage human and financial resources, and ultimately create value. Information Week brought this interesting […]

Thinking Out of Order

By |May 25th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Thinking Out of Order

Deep learning neural networks mimic the decision-making processes of the human brain by making a series of calculations to reach a conclusion. Machines can […]