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.

Learn. More.

By |January 20th, 2015|News, reference|Comments Off on Learn. More.

Learning is not just an action or a verb. Learning can be an urge, desire, and passion for many. Information seeking is not something taught in grade school; it is something ingrained in our DNA.

A Newbie’s Guide to DHUG Meetings

By |January 19th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on A Newbie’s Guide to DHUG Meetings

The biggest week of the year at Access Innovations is almost upon us. Every year, we present Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, where our esteemed clients come from all over the nation to meet and learn from the people who built the software and use it on a daily basis. Right about now, there starts to be a lot of buzz around the office. There are a lot of people coming to Albuquerque for this, and everyone here is pretty excited to swap ideas with them, because they’ve come up with some interesting uses of our software, things that have made us better in the process.

NFAIS Conference Coming Soon

By |January 16th, 2015|News|Comments Off on NFAIS Conference Coming Soon

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Conference is coming soon to Maryland. Check your calendars for the February 22-24, 2015 event. Information services are essential in everyday decision-making. The demand is growing to create relationships among linked data sources and formats has raised expectations for improved discoverability and accessibility.

Collaboration Fosters Quality

By |January 14th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Collaboration Fosters Quality

2014 was and 2015 appears to be following in suit, the year of mergers and acquisitions. We have shared a few of those, always emphasizing that collaboration almost always results in better anything - products, results, and even people. But in the world of non-profits how does mergers prove beneficial?

Expanding the Search

By |January 13th, 2015|News, search|Comments Off on Expanding the Search

Sometimes I mess around with the Siri app on my iPhone, but that is the extent of that. However I have noticed more and more of my friends actually using the talk feature on their mobile phone to search the Internet. It is their verbal Google.