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.

Aspirations for the Future

By |June 19th, 2015|Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Aspirations for the Future

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world’s largest biomedical library. There are those that believe it should become an “epicenter for data […]

Homemade Taxonomies

By |June 19th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Homemade Taxonomies

Expert System is offering a learning opportunity next week titled, “Enriching Google Search Appliance: Cogito Connected for GSA.” This webinar focuses on helping you find, tag, […]

My Dear Watson

By |June 18th, 2015|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on My Dear Watson

Jeopardy and artificial intelligence fans alike might find a recent report from Outsell interesting. “IBM Watson – A Hammer in Search of Nails” addresses […]

Old and New

By |June 17th, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on Old and New

An example of old meets new: Merriam-Webster has developed an app for the Apple Watch. For more than 150 years, Merriam-Webster has been keeping up […]

Taxonomist Positions Available

By |June 16th, 2015|News, reference, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomist Positions 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 […]

Father of Library Science

By |June 15th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Father of Library Science

Father’s Day is coming up soon, so we thought we’d pay homage to Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article […]

Cool Taxonomies

By |June 12th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Cool Taxonomies

In a discussion about larger cities, their actual residents and their desired residents, one writer asked some interesting questions about hipsters. This interesting topic […]