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.

Texas Counties Select Document Management Solution

By |January 2nd, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Texas Counties Select Document Management Solution

Tyler Technologies has landed agreements with five counties in Texas for their document management needs. Tyler's Eagle Recording software solution is currently used in 17 states, including Texas where 28 counties already use Tyler systems to help manage Land and Vital Records.

The Digital Divide

By |December 30th, 2011|News, Technology|Comments Off on The Digital Divide

Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, so fast that it makes one wonder if users can keep up with the new terminology, skills and knowledge needed to navigate their way through new digital divides.

Technological Weather

By |December 30th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Technological Weather

The BBC Weather website has been relaunched after a public beta. The new site is on a three-tier architecture and this move was part of the BBC's wider strategy to move to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase cross-product interoperability and data reuse.

ISYS Search Software Releases New Version

By |December 30th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on ISYS Search Software Releases New Version

ISYS Search Software has released its next generation Enterprise 10.0 product that promises enterprise search at speeds up to four times faster than previous versions. Features of the new version includes ISYS 1-Click FileFinder indexing, analytics and search technology, and more. The customizable interface lets business users search and refine the results the way they want – making the information findable.

Adara Offers Compatible Software for ICD-10 Transition

By |December 29th, 2011|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on Adara Offers Compatible Software for ICD-10 Transition

Adara Networks is targeting healthcare for its next virtualization challenge. With their history of providing IT services to the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Adara is looking to move their enterprise service buses, which allow compatibility among software applications, to the healthcare field.

New Software Acts as Social Media Filter

By |December 29th, 2011|News|Comments Off on New Software Acts as Social Media Filter

Social media at its very core was designed to make users want to follow people. It is all about making connections. However, with the influx of data coming through social media, there is a trend in social media users where they are no longer “following’ people and organizations in an effort to limit the clutter and chatter that is coming from their social networks. Doesn’t this defeat the point of social media?

Healthcare Reimbursement Will Just Get More Complicated

By |December 28th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Healthcare Reimbursement Will Just Get More Complicated

Healthcare reimbursement is a complex system as it stands. With the new evolving transition of the medical coding to the ICD-10 classification system, it will be even more complex.

Social Media Chatter Monitoring Tool

By |December 28th, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on Social Media Chatter Monitoring Tool

The Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is a service software that provides access for users to view their search/filter information and utilize it to make decisions based on the social media information found on the Internet.

Tagged and Topicmarks Merge

By |December 28th, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on Tagged and Topicmarks Merge

Tagged has announced an acquisition of Topicmarks. Tagged is the social discovery service and Topicmarks uses semantic engine to summarize content. The combination of these two should be interesting.