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.

Shameless Self-Promotion

By |April 16th, 2013|News|Comments Off on Shameless Self-Promotion

We know that social networks all use metadata to pull in a preview of your content to determine interests, buying practices, etc. We know this, but we still look at content in a silo. We write blog posts, update our Facebook status, or retweet our favorite music artists' latest snarky comment and forget that someone is watching and paying close attention.

Theory of Knowledge: The Age of Enlightenment

By |April 15th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Theory of Knowledge: The Age of Enlightenment

The 17th century ushered in some new ways of thinking about knowledge. One of the 17th-century philosophers who studied the nature of knowledge (among many other things) was René Descartes (1596-1650), who concerned himself with the nature of knowledge (among many other things).

Solutions for SharePoint

By |April 12th, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Solutions for SharePoint

SharePoint Solutions offers a solution for an often requested and needed connection between its Business Connectivity Services and the SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata feature.

Monster Uses Semantic Technology To Improve Connectivity

By |April 11th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Monster Uses Semantic Technology To Improve Connectivity

The familiar job opportunity site, Monster, recently announced that the company’s 6Sense® semantic search technology which is behind Power Resume Search™, is now available in the Netherlands. This means recruiters in seven countries can now quickly and precisely find and target candidates who best meet their hiring needs. The team at Monster worked on the 6Sense knowledge base for over two years prior to launch of the beta phase, which included extensive testing and feedback from a variety of clients and searches.

Indexing Next Door

By |April 10th, 2013|indexing, News|Comments Off on Indexing Next Door

Indexing is important regardless of the content, type, volume or location. That was made even clearer to me when I found this article about a small county courthouse indexing their documents into digital archives for safety in lieu of disasters or identity fraud. Of course we are all for digitizing content for ease in findability as well, but when I realized this article, which I found on Google News, was about a small town just a few miles from my hometown. In fact, my sister lives in this particular town.

Typography as a Science

By |April 10th, 2013|News|Comments Off on Typography as a Science

Like many people, I have varied interests in my life, both professionally and personally. Graphics, design and typography crosses the lines into both of those worlds. So when I found this interesting diagram on Flickr, it piqued my interest and I thought I would share it with you.