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.

Search is Not a Luxury

By |July 30th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Search is Not a Luxury

Concept Searching and information governance are often seen together in articles and white papers. It is a popular topic, but a complicated one as well. Search is a key component of information governance and therein lies our interest on the topic.

Becoming Relevant

By |July 29th, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on Becoming Relevant

Linguamatics has launched I2E Semantic Enrichment to provide increased return on investment in enterprise search systems and radically improve speed to insight.

Buzzwords, Bling, and Being Snowed

By |July 28th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Buzzwords, Bling, and Being Snowed

I recently had the opportunity to see webinars featuring a couple of software systems for taxonomy construction/management and content categorization. The systems were both impressive and, if I didn't have 20 years in the business, I would have been totally awed ... and snowed. It's easy to be overwhelmed by a slick appearance and professional presentation.

Information Architecture Position Available

By |July 25th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Information Architecture Position Available

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.

Reducing Redundancy

By |July 23rd, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Reducing Redundancy

The United States Navy plans to deploy a prototype enterprise-wide records and task management software system designed to replace redundant systems.

Standards Level the Playing Fields

By |July 23rd, 2014|News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards Level the Playing Fields

There is constant conversation about technology, performance, and storage in the world of information services. It appears to be a never-ending cycle of regenerating work all focused on getting the optimal performance out of our technology at any one moment in time.