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.

Just Too Much

By |February 27th, 2017|Access Insights, News, semantic|Comments Off on Just Too Much

The concept of information overload has long a been a reality, even before the digital age. It was first attributed to Professor Bertram Gross […]

Dictionaries in the World of Social Media

By |February 10th, 2017|News, reference|Comments Off on Dictionaries in the World of Social Media

The days of encyclopedias may have been ended by Google and other search engines, but dictionaries are standing the test of time. This interesting […]

Ontologist Position Available

By |February 10th, 2017|News, ontology|Comments Off on Ontologist Position Available

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities […]

Semantic Technology in Social Media

By |February 10th, 2017|News, search|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in Social Media

If you have uploaded a photo to your Facebook timeline lately, you already know the social media platform attempts to identify your friends’ faces in […]

Educational Opportunity This Week

By |February 8th, 2017|News, semantic|Comments Off on Educational Opportunity This Week

“Artificial General Intelligence – When Can I Get It?” is the name of the webinar scheduled for Thursday, February 9th at 2:00 p.m. EST […]

Protecting Data and Users

By |February 8th, 2017|News, Technology|Comments Off on Protecting Data and Users

Data breaches and security has never been more of a focus for most organizations. It’s not just hackers or rogue employees that are causing […]

New Acquisition, Greater Access

By |February 8th, 2017|News, reference, semantic|Comments Off on New Acquisition, Greater Access

Elsevier has announced their acquisition of  Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services. What does this mean for users? PR Newswire brought this interesting tidbit to our […]

Returning Control to Librarians

By |February 3rd, 2017|News, Technology|Comments Off on Returning Control to Librarians

A new independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions has launched an online resource access management tool for libraries. Knowledgespeak brought […]