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.

Informatica 9.1 Released

By |June 28th, 2011|News, storage, Technology|Comments Off on Informatica 9.1 Released

Informatica has released its flagship product designed to handle the "big data" generated by today's transaction processing and social media systems, Informatica 9.1. Big in velocity, complexity and variety; big data is the hot topic.

Uses for a Thesaurus

By |June 27th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Uses for a Thesaurus

A thesaurus can be used for several different purposes. It is mainly used for information retrieval, in one way or another. We use it in information retrieval both on the search end and in the tagging of the records.

New Information Technology Department Taxonomy

By |June 27th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|2 Comments

WAND has released the latest entry in its enterprise taxonomy library, the new Information Technology Department Taxonomy. This new taxonomy is designed specifically for IT departments and gives a jump-start to any enterprise content project that is organizing IT related documents.

To Like or Not Like?

By |June 24th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on To Like or Not Like?

“Thumbs up” has taken on a whole new meaning with Facebook’s now famous button “Like”. But how does this ranking in social media affect search ranking? And which is more valuable?

Products that Support SharePoint Integration Continue to Grow

By |June 24th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Products that Support SharePoint Integration Continue to Grow

Microsoft has released their new cloud computing Office 365 that allows companies of all sizes to use the power of tools such as SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and Office with the benefits of cloud computing.

Going Paperless is Not for the Faint-Hearted

By |June 23rd, 2011|indexing, News, storage|1 Comment

Remember the new concept of the “paperless office?” Here we are decades later struggling with the same challenge of automating the storage processes and document management. Why is this so difficult to achieve?