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.

Meet-Up in the UK

By |March 3rd, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on Meet-Up in the UK

Facet Publishing is bringing a very interesting learning and networking opportunity to knowledge professionals in the United Kingdom. "Findability and information management in the corporate workplace" This particular meetup will celebrate the launch of Facet Publishing's new "A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals". This is an overview of the issues and opportunities for information professionals in rapidly-changing environments, and contains contributions from a wide range of sectors and specialisms.

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Not Quite HAL

By |March 3rd, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on Not Quite HAL

It sounds like fictional television or the latest science fiction thriller. However, with software-defined networking (SDN), networks are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud-based virtualization and through many steps that are so much more complicated than I am making them sound, they are on the cusp of enabling networks to remain self-aware, self-defending, and self-healing - all the time.

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Measures of Success

By |March 3rd, 2015|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on Measures of Success

Information technology continues to change at a rate unfathomable for most to keep up with, let alone manage. Roles change on a daily basis in an effort to just keep up.

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Data Analysis in a Standards-Challenged World

By |March 2nd, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Standards, Term lists|Comments Off on Data Analysis in a Standards-Challenged World

We deal pretty heavily around here in words, what they mean, and how they’re used. It should go without saying, but it’s a fundamental […]

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Learning Opportunity in Publishing

By |March 2nd, 2015|News|Comments Off on Learning Opportunity in Publishing

With a title like, "Life in the Fast Lane: Driving Change or Changing Drivers?", who wouldn't be intrigued? This Washington D.C. seminar is brought to us as part of the 2015 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing™.

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The White Paper is Here

By |March 2nd, 2015|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The White Paper is Here

Back when Steve Martin rejoiced in his name being in print and predicting things will start happening to him now, the reference to white pages was much different. KM World recently released a white paper on big data and though it contains helpful information to tackling the challenge that comes with the data explosion, they didn't need to run through the streets declaring its arrival.

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Learning Opportunity in Taxonomies

By |February 27th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Learning Opportunity in Taxonomies

We always like to pass on training and learning opportunities as they come across our desk(top). The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) offers theoretical […]

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2015 SBR Taxonomy Published

By |February 27th, 2015|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on 2015 SBR Taxonomy Published

The Netherlands Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program has published the first beta version (9.0.b.1) of the 2015 SBR Taxonomy 2015.

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Summer Opportunity for Grad Students

By |February 26th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Summer Opportunity for Grad Students

The Innovation & Technology Solutions (ITS) Team has an opening in their Pathways Internship Program. The turnaround on this is fast as the position closes Friday, February 27th - tomorrow! However, all interested candidates can apply here.

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Opportunity for Librarians

By |February 25th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Opportunity for Librarians

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 our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.

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