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.

How High?

By |March 16th, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on How High?

You know I enjoy finding the odd and/or reclusive taxonomy or classification. Besides bringing a smile to my face, they remind us that classifying […]

Records Management Position Available

By |March 16th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Records Management Position Available

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

Social Content Going Live

By |March 15th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Social Content Going Live

The trend seems to be all about live content. After year’s of YouTube pushing old and older content, Twitter’s Periscope live-streaming app got the […]

Being Open About It

By |March 15th, 2016|News|Comments Off on Being Open About It

CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) recently partnered with a number of federal agencies to help them comply with the […]

Taxonomy of Leprechauns: A Non-Authoritative Guide

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As befits any imaginary subject, there is no authoritative taxonomy of Leprechauns; like dragons, affordable housing in San Francisco, and happy SharePoint users–they do […]

Classifying Men Who Classify Women

By |March 14th, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classifying Men Who Classify Women

This past week was the annual celebration of International Women’s Day around the world. Many different recognition events and articles lifted up historical and […]

Indexing History

By |March 14th, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Indexing History

Family history research has become one of the most popular interests for Americans. This look back into history is more than hobby for most […]

The Human Side of Risk

By |March 10th, 2016|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on The Human Side of Risk

“The most dangerous and risky thing organizations do is hire people—it is a corporate gamble,” says Margie Hlava, president of Access Innovations. “Finding excellent […]