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.

Twitter’s Ad Revenue Soars

By |January 27th, 2011|Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Twitter’s Ad Revenue Soars

Recent reports predict a bright future for Twitter and their ad revenue. The social-networking site is predicted to earn nearly three times the revenue growth as compared to 2010.

Taxonomy Webinar Series

By |January 26th, 2011|Access Insights, News, semantic, Taxonomy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Taxonomy Webinar Series

ASIS&T and Access Innovations are hosting a webinar series comprised of four sessions, spaced a week apart – beginning Thursday, January 27, 2011. They will examine ways that taxonomies are used to enhance search, involve users, and increase the value of information assets Semantic integration. The sessions are free to ASIS&T Members and for non-members, the cost will be $49 per session. Sign up for all 4 and receive a 20% discount, or become a member today and register at no cost.

Semantic Technology and Social Networking – Forever and Ever?

By |January 26th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology and Social Networking – Forever and Ever?

With semantic technology relying so heavily on social media and especially, Facebook, there is concern that if Facebook goes away will they take Web 3.0 with them?

Taming the Information Tsunami

By |January 25th, 2011|News, semantic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Taming the Information Tsunami

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced the program for its 2011 Annual Conference. The event is scheduled for February 27 - March 1, 2011 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.

New Start-Up Tries to Use Semantic Technology to Save Media

By |January 25th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on New Start-Up Tries to Use Semantic Technology to Save Media

Bradford Cross, co-founder of a new startup called Woven, is trying to solve the media versus web battle. That is a huge task since the web is disrupting the media business in some fundamental ways — distribution of content and the monetization.

Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization on February 14-16

By |January 24th, 2011|News, reference|Comments Off on Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization on February 14-16

Management Development Institute will be organizing the International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization (ICDK 2011) in association with INDEST-AICTE Consortium, Ministry of HRD, Government of India and Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) during 14-16 February, 2011 at Gurgaon campus.

New Partnership Looks for Strategic Results

By |January 24th, 2011|Business strategy, News, semantic|Comments Off on New Partnership Looks for Strategic Results

Leader in cloud computing and semantic technologies joins with a software product and solutions firm for semantic data integration and ontology-based deductive databases. Together they can bring high-value strategic results for their users.