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.

Archives Provide Insight

By |November 16th, 2016|indexing, News|Comments Off on Archives Provide Insight

Gale has launched several new digital archives that will expand their historical collections dramatically. Library Technology brought this interesting news to our attention in their […]

Taxonomy Boot Camp 2016

By |November 3rd, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy Boot Camp 2016

This year’s Taxonomy Boot Camp is scheduled for November 14-15, 2016 in Washington D.C. If you have already registered then you are likely looking […]

Identifying At-Risk Data

By |November 1st, 2016|News|Comments Off on Identifying At-Risk Data

A hacker scanning for unsecured databases was able to compromise at least 58.8 million records from Modern Business Solutions (MBS), a data management and […]

New Features Enhance Efficiency

By |October 24th, 2016|News, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on New Features Enhance Efficiency

Altova MissionKit’s release features changes to its big data, database, and XBRL tools – all designed to increase an organization’s productivity. This interesting news came […]

Generations and Technology

By |October 20th, 2016|News, Technology|Comments Off on Generations and Technology

Generational differences are attributed to everything from driver’s licenses, work styles, and communications. The first generation born to be truly digital natives are millennials. […]

Finding the Content Fast

By |October 18th, 2016|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Finding the Content Fast

NTENT recently announced the expansion of its next generation semantic search and natural language processing technologies to support the Russian language. Business Wire brought this […]

Semantic Technology in the Financial World

By |October 17th, 2016|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in the Financial World

Semantic technology can benefit people in a variety of ways. Onboarding in the financial world used to be a simple matter of filling in a form […]

Audiobooks Transformed

By |October 14th, 2016|News, Technology|Comments Off on Audiobooks Transformed

Remember books on tape? Then they morphed into CDs, but it still took four or five CDs for a decent size novel. Now with […]