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.

It Is Like Herding Cats

By |October 9th, 2012|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on It Is Like Herding Cats

The web is full of unstructured data. There may be a few segments falling in line with semantic standards, but they are few and far between. The focus of search engines is on HTML but that leaves much of the data undiscovered.

The End Result Will Help

By |October 9th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The End Result Will Help

Sometimes with all the anxiety and business around the ICD-10 coding classification transition, we forget that this will undoubtedly result in better insight into individual patient conditions and the wealth of data that will be available will improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Migrating to SharePoint Faster and More Easily

By |October 9th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Migrating to SharePoint Faster and More Easily

Kapow Software has partnered with CapTech to make migrating legacy digital assets to SharePoint faster.

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The Growing Deficit in Computer Science Education

By |October 8th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on The Growing Deficit in Computer Science Education

In our increasingly globalized economy many career paths that seemed to offer security are today only offering uncertainty to recent graduates. Students graduating with degrees in teaching, law, and even human resources or business are finding stiff competition and few opportunities. Even in our stubbornly weak economy, job growth in computer science fields has continued steadily; yet even as computer usage becomes ingrained in nearly every facet of modern life, many graduates find themselves ill-equipped to take on the requirements of technology-based jobs.

Photo Storage and Indexing Need Taxonomy

By |October 4th, 2012|indexing, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Photo Storage and Indexing Need Taxonomy

A new cloud-based photo sharing service has been launched by Canon. Project 1709 enables users to store and access images regardless of where they have been saved. This works due to a special tagging and indexing function.

Training is Key for a Successful Transition

By |October 3rd, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Training is Key for a Successful Transition

Now that there is a firm deadline in place, it is time to start training to meet the October 2014 coding classification transition goal. Considering there will be five times the number of diagnostic codes, the training should be comprehensive and complete.