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.

Librarians Have Come A Long Way Baby

By |March 24th, 2011|News, Technology|Comments Off on Librarians Have Come A Long Way Baby

Regardless of when you went to school, the image that comes to your mind when hearing the term librarian is very similar to mine and everyone else’s. Gray hair, bun, wire framed glasses on a lanyard sitting on the end of her nose and tight pursed lips that you are sure hasn’t smiled in years, if ever. Was I really that far off?

Semantic Technology Certification Program Offered

By |March 24th, 2011|News, semantic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Certification Program Offered

A Semsphere Semantic Technology Certification Program is now being offered as a self-learning package for students who cannot attend an on-site course but want the benefit of training towards recognized qualification.

SMB IT Budgets Take a Hit

By |March 24th, 2011|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on SMB IT Budgets Take a Hit

Small and midsize businesses (SMB) consistently struggle with committing to the investment that collaboration projects require. According to InformationWeek research, only one third are increasing their IT spending on collaborative projects, compared to the previous year.

Taxonomy Use Enhances User Experiences

By |March 23rd, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy Use Enhances User Experiences

Bridgeline Digital’s web engagement management software and interactive technology solutions was chosen by a leading distributor of premium fabrics to launch their newly developed B2B product catalog and eCommerce store using the iAPPS Product Suite.

DynaFile Enhances Barcode Automation for Autoindexing

By |March 22nd, 2011|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on DynaFile Enhances Barcode Automation for Autoindexing

DynaFile takes document scanning and indexing automation to another level with their enhanced barcode scanning module.

GeneCloud Selected as Winner

By |March 22nd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on GeneCloud Selected as Winner

The German Federal Ministry of Economics andTechnology (BMWi) has announced the 12 winners of the Trusted Cloud research program. One of the winners selected included the development of cloud computing services for the life sciences.

To Really Help a Searcher, Show the Taxonomy

By |March 21st, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on To Really Help a Searcher, Show the Taxonomy

A recent post on a popular taxonomy community website asked for examples of websites that use a thesaurus. The writer was seeking sites that show the user that a thesaurus is being used to direct them from a query word to a taxonomy term. She was looking for a way to support searchers on a company by translating search queries that may be synonyms to terms in their large product taxonomy to deliver content indexed with the preferred term. She also questioned whether the redirection from a query word to a taxonomy term would be clear and intuitive for the searcher.