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.

PLOS Launches Channels

By |April 3rd, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on PLOS Launches Channels

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) supports scientific communities wanting to broadly distribute research in open and accessible ways with their latest innovation, PLOS […]

Learn More About Machine Learning

By |March 29th, 2017|News, semantic|Comments Off on Learn More About Machine Learning

DATAVERSITY brought this unique learning opportunity to our attention and we wanted to share it with you. Smart Data Webinar: Machine Learning – From Discovery […]

A Virus By Another Name

By |March 13th, 2017|Access Insights, Featured, reference, Taxonomy|Comments Off on A Virus By Another Name

A new year, the holidays are over and by now most resolutions that have been made, have been forgotten. Routines are picked up and […]

Fighting Back against Fake News

By |March 10th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Fighting Back against Fake News

After months of people pointing fingers and declaring what is and what isn’t “fake news”, Facebook has a starting place for identifying less-than-accurate news […]

Capturing Emotions with Technology

By |March 10th, 2017|News, Technology|Comments Off on Capturing Emotions with Technology

Lightspeed has announced a strategic partnership with Affectiva to capture emotional coding within its surveys. Benzinga brought this news to us in their article, “Lightspeed […]

Word Lovers Unite

By |March 3rd, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Word Lovers Unite

I like words. I like how they make me feel. I like how they roll off my tongue. Words like filipendulous are phonetically fun to […]

Information Industry Giant Dies

By |March 2nd, 2017|News|Comments Off on Information Industry Giant Dies

Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and who launched the field of citation analysis, passed away on February 26, 2017. The […]

Libraries Work to Enhance Education

By |March 1st, 2017|News, Technology|Comments Off on Libraries Work to Enhance Education

Low-income students and their families are getting some assistance with digital literacy skills and internet connections at home. The American Library Association (ALA) shared this […]