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.

Webinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation

By |November 4th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Drilling down to the Challenges of a SharePoint taxonomy implementation” and will be held Wednesday, November 9th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

Faith Demonstrated in Taxonomy

By |November 4th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Faith Demonstrated in Taxonomy

The debate over faith and a belief in a higher power managed to bring a perfect example of taxonomy to clarity. This interesting, thoughtful and somewhat humorous topic was inspired by the article, “Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)” on Evolution News and Views.

Google Can Now Search Facebook Comments

By |November 3rd, 2011|indexing, News, search|1 Comment

A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.

Indexing People with People

By |November 3rd, 2011|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Indexing People with People

Search indexing company PeekYou has taken a look at the fifty biggest names in gaming and assigned each a PeekScore. They wanted to recognize the developers and talent involved in this industry.

Semantic Technology Company Sees Germany as Prime Market

By |November 3rd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Company Sees Germany as Prime Market

Semantic Web and Big Data Technology company, PolarLake, has opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for addressing the challenges of financial and reference data management, they apparently see the German market ripe for development.

More Preparations for the ICD-10 Transition

By |November 2nd, 2011|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on More Preparations for the ICD-10 Transition

Care Communications has announced the start of a new ICD-10 Documentation and Financial Risk Assessment Services designed to assess clinical documentation problems and financial risks for healthcare providers.

Sentiment Analysis Symposium is Next Week

By |November 2nd, 2011|News, ontology|Comments Off on Sentiment Analysis Symposium is Next Week

Adam Pease of Rearden Commerce will present an overview of ontology as it relates to sentiment analysis and content extraction at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium.

Indexing is Key to Findability

By |November 2nd, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Indexing is Key to Findability

A team of librarians from regional branches of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine have come to the Radiology Society of North America's (RNSA) annual conference in Chicago to host educational sessions on helping clinicians easily find reference material. This has taken place for fifteen years and that continues for RNSA 2011 next month.

Top 10 Lists

By |November 1st, 2011|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on Top 10 Lists

The impending ICD-10 implementation landed on one author’s list of things that should be keeping healthcare IT officers up at night. No surprise really considering they are under the two year mark before all transition and training needs to be implemented to the new ICD-10 medical coding program.