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.

ASIS&T and Access Innovations Host Webinar

By |August 4th, 2011|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on ASIS&T and Access Innovations Host Webinar

ASIS&T and Access Innovations are hosting a webinar on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EDT). The webinar is named “Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation” and the facilitators will be Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., and Joe Shepley, Vice President and Practice leader for Doculabs.

Web 3.0 Promises Change

By |August 4th, 2011|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Web 3.0 Promises Change

Batten down the hatches. At least that is what management consulting firm, Booz&Co. is warning businesses. The next generation of web technology will transform the way businesses work within five to ten years.

Search vs. Findability

By |August 4th, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on Search vs. Findability

It isn’t news that search has evolved dramatically over the past couple of years. Though many people still think of search as the white box in the corner of the page where users type in a term or phrase, we need of it as findability -- ways that we can facilitate the user navigating and searching for the information they need.

Like Semantics on Crack

By |August 3rd, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Like Semantics on Crack

Analytics provider, Quid, continues to raise funding and add interested parties to their board of advisors. Their visual representations of data has interested many organizations, the most recent, PayPal.

Semantic Web Conference – Keeping Up With The Changes

By |August 3rd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Web Conference – Keeping Up With The Changes

A conference devoted to the Semantic Web will explore how media and business can focus on improving efficiencies in publishing, news and content management.

Findability is Key

By |August 2nd, 2011|News, storage|Comments Off on Findability is Key

With the extreme growth in data in every industry, whether it is healthcare, education or manufacturing, document imaging services are increasingly used in organizations to cope. With mammoth amounts of data, it is vital for industries to document the information methodically and develop a system that increases findability.

Is the Web Really a Web?

By |August 2nd, 2011|indexing, News, Technology|Comments Off on Is the Web Really a Web?

A significant portion of Internet content has a spatial dimension. For instance, a place name within a document or the location of a place referred to within a tweet. However, if we take a look from a geospatial standpoint at the various types of Internet resources and applications used today, there is a different and fragmented picture.