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.

Show Me the Money

By |March 30th, 2015|News, Technology, Term lists|Comments Off on Show Me the Money

By 2025, the Winklevoss twins, more known for their legal battles with former classmate Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, predicts a “cashless society” will dominate with the virtual currency bitcoin.

Last Week for Taxonomy Boot Camp Proposals

By |March 26th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Last Week for Taxonomy Boot Camp Proposals

Taxonomy Boot Camp is the only conference dedicated to exploring the successes, challenges, products, and development of taxonomies. You have the opportunity to share your experiences, knowledge, and work with taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, content labeling systems, and other mechanisms for organizing information at this one-of-a-kind boutique learning and networking event.

Classification Goes Mobile

By |March 26th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classification Goes Mobile

Softonic has acquired AppCrawlr, the intelligent semantic-based app search engine that lets users find apps using contextual search.

The Impact on Our Lives

By |March 26th, 2015|News|Comments Off on The Impact on Our Lives

Social media impacts communication, marketing, and news – to name just a few of the obvious ones. A recent survey report issued by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicates that the internet and social media are integral to the arts in America.

Among Good Company

By |March 25th, 2015|Access Insights, News, Technology|Comments Off on Among Good Company

TEMIS joins the prestigious list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management. KM World made their annual announcement recently as they recognize the top industry influencers in content, document, and knowledge management.

The Promise and Pitfalls of Classifying Food

By |March 24th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Promise and Pitfalls of Classifying Food

As a lover of all things tasty, my mind often turns to the kinds of food and drink that I love. As someone who works with taxonomies and thesauri, I tend to try to classify them. Often, though, I don't get very far with it because I start to get hungry. However, I just ate, so I don't think it'll be so much of an issue this time.