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.

Managing the Technology

By |January 21st, 2011|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Managing the Technology

Is the problem with your organization the technology or the management? Or maybe the management of the technology?

Call for Classification and Ontology Papers

By |January 21st, 2011|News, ontology, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Call for Classification and Ontology Papers

Classification and Ontology is the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium) and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).

Anyone Seen a Genie?

By |January 20th, 2011|Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Anyone Seen a Genie?

One author lists his three wishes for the new year in regards to performance management. How many are on your list as well?

Data Integration in 2011

By |January 20th, 2011|Business Intelligence, News, Technology|Comments Off on Data Integration in 2011

2011 promises to be the year of data integration. Whether your interests are in business intelligence, information access, or operations, the trends are to link enterprise data to business-relevant content drawn from the social and online information tsunami.

Semantic Partnership Formed

By |January 20th, 2011|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Semantic Partnership Formed

Provider of semantic technology-powered application development tools - Cambridge Semantics – has joined with Cray Inc. to collectively develop and market high performance data solutions.

Mark Your Calendars

By |January 19th, 2011|News, reference, Technology|Comments Off on Mark Your Calendars

There are several exciting educational opportunities available this year for professionals to enhance their skills and topical knowledge. Take a moment to review the event descriptions to find the one(s) that fill your needs.

Technology is Educating Our Future Leaders

By |January 19th, 2011|News, reference, Technology|Comments Off on Technology is Educating Our Future Leaders

We all know that technology is changing daily and it is hard for us in the profession to stay abreast of new challenges and solutions. But what about the teachers? Teachers in college, teachers in high school, and even teacher’s in elementary school face the same challenge to stay technologically current after creating and preparing classroom activities and assessing students' learning.

The Clouds Are Exploding

By |January 18th, 2011|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The Clouds Are Exploding

Even with the explosion of information we continue to find that piece of information that we are looking for – with plenty of room left to store data, pictures, music, and video. Is this because of the cloud storage? Some don’t think so.