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.

Spreading like Wildfire

By |June 13th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Spreading like Wildfire

Who would have guessed as little as ten years ago that social media sites would account for massive amounts of traffic on the internet? And it keeps growing. How long before it surpasses search as a driver of traffic?

Making Content More Findable

By |June 13th, 2014|Autoindexing, indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Making Content More Findable

Metaome Science Informatics has announced the launch of DistilBio Enterprise - a knowledge discovery and exploration platform for the life sciences.

Preventing Damage Before it Starts

By |June 12th, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on Preventing Damage Before it Starts

Malware is the bane of any user's existence. It harms everyone from the most naive to the competent techy guru.

Key Components

By |June 12th, 2014|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Key Components

Search engines are determined to provide users with as much information as possible. Some companies are forming strategic partnerships to create rich search results for better user experience.

Records Management Requires Consistency

By |June 11th, 2014|indexing, News, Standards|Comments Off on Records Management Requires Consistency

Pittsburgh-based Business Records Management LLC (BRM) has acquired the assets of ABC Mobile Shredding Inc. This marks the fifth purchase by BRM in four years. This somewhat ironic combination of services does have commonality and merging a vendor into an organization can be smart business strategy.

Webinar Addresses Social Networking in SharePoint

By |June 10th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Webinar Addresses Social Networking in SharePoint

Concept Searching and Protiviti are co-sponsoring the webinar "Collaboration and Social Networking in SharePoint and Office 365" on June 24th at 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT.

Blind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes

By |June 9th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Blind Alleys, Dead Ends, and Mazes

Taxonomies can be displayed in a variety of ways. One of the display types that we occasionally see is known as the flat format display. It’s described in the main U.S. standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, published by the National Information Standards Organization.