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.

More Webinars for This Week

By |February 24th, 2015|News|Comments Off on More Webinars for This Week

School is in session as there are more webinar and learning opportunities to share. The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) is conducting webinars in partnership with leading industry analysts and consulting firms. Your questions and comments are welcome for live Q&A during each event. These webinars are free and last about one hour.

Start Planning Now

By |February 24th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Start Planning Now

KMWorld 2015 seems far away in November, but the planning is already underway. The planning team is seeking experienced and knowledgeable experts who can provide practical, hands-on information, case studies, and instruction that will maximize the value of the conference attendees’ technological investments. Topics should include search, content, enterprise, and knowledge management, but the core component should be around agility. Agile can mean applying an incremental and iterative approach, or evolving through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams to promote early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourage rapid and flexible response to change.

Making Connections

By |February 23rd, 2015|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Making Connections

The 11th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting just wrapped up, and as we reflect on the week-long event, making connections is the […]

Webinar Opportunity This Week

By |February 23rd, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar Opportunity This Week

We always like to share learning opportunities with our readers and the latest is an interesting webinar titled, "5 Key Elements to a Successful Ecommerce Product Taxonomy." This is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25 at 11:00 a.m. (EST).

The End

By |February 20th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The End

Building a solid taxonomy takes time, lots of time. However, a well-constructed and systematically applied taxonomy can unify all of the various assets, and in the process can itself become a valuable repository of institutional knowledge and a source of competitive advantage for the organization.

Hands-on Learning

By |February 19th, 2015|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Hands-on Learning

The Data Harmony Users Group Meeting continued today with a presentation by Paul G. Kotula of the Materials Characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories. In the presentation, "Six Months of Work in the Lab will Save You Half a Day in the Library or 30 Minutes Online", Kotula shared his experience as both a consumer and a producer of peer-reviewed, published scientific literature.

Digital Technologies for Research

By |February 18th, 2015|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Digital Technologies for Research

With the Data Harmony User's Group in full swing, today started the case studies. Personally, I find these the most interesting because it is a real life application of all the technology, including the hurdles and bumps along the way.