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.

Setting Up the Store: Taxonomies in E-Commerce

HowHow can a business set up an e-commerce platform that effectively utilizes taxonomies to contribute to its bottom line? In the third of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ), Jay Ven Eman will use a case-study approach to guide participants on how to effectively utilize taxonomies for web delivery, web search and even store layout.

Privacy While Surfing the Web – Pipe Dream?

By |February 7th, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on Privacy While Surfing the Web – Pipe Dream?

Tracking security and privacy issues are in every headline you read these days. Firefox started the buzz with their announcement of a “do not track” tool that empowers consumers to comprehensively request not to be followed wherever you visit on the Web. This came from a Federal Trade Commission request.

AACR Selects Access Innovations for Semantic Indexing of Content on HighWire

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner to enhance the discoverability of journal content on the HighWire platform as well as across the AACR organization. Leveraging Access Innovations’ proven experience and their highly effective semantic tagging and indexing tools, the AACR will enable their readers and members to make connections between and among related information currently residing in disparate websites.

New Treasury Websites Embrace Social Media

By |February 4th, 2011|News, Technology|Comments Off on New Treasury Websites Embrace Social Media

The recent launch of the new Treasury.gov web site and five other Treasury Department web sites (FinancialStability.gov, SIGTARP.gov, MyMoney.gov, TIGTA.gov, and IRSOversightBoard.treasury.gov), the first Cabinet-level web site migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a feather in Smartonix’s cap.

Anticipation Surrounds WordPress 3.1 Impending Release

By |February 3rd, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Anticipation Surrounds WordPress 3.1 Impending Release

With the impending WordPress version 3.1 release, anticipation and hype continue to grow within the community and networks. This popular brand continues to grow excitement and we wondered why.

Technology in the Education Sector

By |February 3rd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Technology in the Education Sector

Many educational institutions are looking for technology to beef up their resume for potential students, i.e. potential tuition dollars.