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.

Challenges of the Dictionary

By |October 18th, 2012|News, reference|Comments Off on Challenges of the Dictionary

American Heritage Dictionary recently published their fifth edition of what is known as the conservative dictionary. What is considered a conservative dictionary, you ask? It isn't because of its politics, it is due to the conservative usages it includes.

Streamlining the ICD-10 Challenge

By |October 16th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Streamlining the ICD-10 Challenge

Healthcare providers are looking for ways to streamline the coding process during the ICD-10 coding classification system. The challenge of the transition includes the number of codes in the new ICD-10 system - five times the number of codes in the prior set.

Access Innovations Announces Two Free Webinars This Month

By |October 15th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Access Innovations Announces Two Free Webinars This Month

Access Innovations, Inc. invites you to two free hour-long webinars this month as a continuation of the successful Discovery Tour Series. Join us on Monday, October 22, at 3 p.m. EDT and Tuesday, October 30, at 3 p.m. EDT to discover for yourself the software suite that is revolutionizing thesaurus building and content management as you know it.

Historical Cultural Data Being Digitized

By |October 12th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Historical Cultural Data Being Digitized

Culture and online are two words rarely used together, but recently the European Parliament voted through a directive that allows anyone to access ‘orphan works’ – cultural works for which no copyright owner can be located. In addition to this, the digital portal Europeana has offered to freely reuse the metadata associated with its 20 million digitized cultural objects.

Managing Healthcare Data Has Its Challenges

By |October 11th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Managing Healthcare Data Has Its Challenges

Certify Data Systems has released its next generation HealthLogix HIE platform. This solution delivers on the promise of an aggregated patient view from all healthcare encounters across the community.

Semantic Search Technology Speeds Up

By |October 11th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search Technology Speeds Up

TextWise has made available V1.7 One-Click Findability on salesforce.com's AppExchange. Their semantic search technology enables users to migrate data with a never before known speed.

Social Media Data Continues to Grow

By |October 10th, 2012|indexing, News|1 Comment

Sysomos is known for their social media monitoring and analytics. Now they can brag about reaching an important milestone – the indexing of 100,000,000,000 (one […]

Semantic Advertising Founder Takes On Next Challenge

By |October 10th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Advertising Founder Takes On Next Challenge

Seven years ago, Peer39 created a new category of semantic advertising. This technology semantically analyzes every web page in order to properly understand and classify the meaning of a web page and then places the most appropriate advertising. Semantic advertising increases the chance that the viewer will click-thru because only advertising relevant to what they are viewing. This technology has changed the world of online advertising. Despite all this, Peer39 was sold earlier this year to Digital Generation.