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.

Control the Chaos

By |December 22nd, 2014|News, Technology|Comments Off on Control the Chaos

Mark your calendars today to plan on attending the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) conference on March 18-20, 2015 in sunny San Diego, California. This unique moment in time when the acceleration of technology change is forcing organizations to reinvent themselves, new approaches are needed. You can find those at the AIIM Conference 2015 and help your organization embrace the chaos.

Charitable Search

By |December 19th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Charitable Search

A new search engine is being developed that will help make charities' research easier to find and more useful The new product is being developed by Giving Evidence and is due to be launched early next year.

Let the Geeks Celebrate

By |December 19th, 2014|News, Standards|Comments Off on Let the Geeks Celebrate

Those of us in the world of taxonomies understand the importance of consistency and standards. So when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently published a Recommendation of HTML5, the fifth major revision of the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform, we got a little excited.

Register Today for SLA 2015

By |December 18th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Register Today for SLA 2015

We realize you are in the middle of the holiday festivities and planning something for six months from now seems way too organized for the chaos that is December. However, you should mark your calendar for the Special Libraries Association 2015 Annual Conference on June 14-15, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. Whether you are new to this field or a seasoned professional, you'll find something to enlighten you at the SLA 2015 Annual Conference.

Jobs Down Under

By |December 17th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Jobs Down Under

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.

Beefing Up the Search

By |December 17th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Beefing Up the Search

Nuix recently launched version 6.0 of its search, e-discovery, and analytics engine. This new version adds new data formats, languages, and operating systems, as well as new ways to group and filter important data types.