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.

Slang or Vintage?

By |May 28th, 2015|Folksonomy, News, reference|Comments Off on Slang or Vintage?

I am fascinated by words. Their meaning, their history, their multiple uses – all of this and more draws me to dig deeper in […]

Working Together for Open Access

By |May 27th, 2015|News, reference|Comments Off on Working Together for Open Access

Springer has announced a partnership with IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. This partnership will allow for […]

Cloudy with a chance of crab cakes

By |May 25th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Cloudy with a chance of crab cakes

(Note: Back in November of 2013, TaxoDiary published the post “A Cloud Drifting Toward a Classification”, about the cloud formation tentatively labeled as Asperatus […]

Forward Thinking Technology

By |May 22nd, 2015|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Forward Thinking Technology

Tom Simonite recently shared this in the MIT Technology Review: “Many of the devices around us may soon acquire powerful new abilities to understand […]

Semantic Service

By |May 22nd, 2015|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Service

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a design approach based on distinct pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications via a protocol. It operates […]