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.

The Strategic Business Value of a Well-Constructed Taxonomy

By Bert Carelli

An organization’s website is today the primary strategic tool not only for delivering information and promoting its scholarly mission, but also for […]

Jumo Seeks Connections for Nonprofits

By |December 8th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Jumo Seeks Connections for Nonprofits

December 8, 2010 – We knew this was coming. They’ve talked about it for months. An online community for nonprofits and charitable organizations – […]

New Local Discovery Service

By |December 8th, 2010|News, semantic|Comments Off on New Local Discovery Service

WHERE, Inc., has launched its new local discovery service, making it easy to find the right places to eat, drink or play by offering personalized recommendations and high-quality guides from local experts.

Database of Chemicals Creates Community

By |December 8th, 2010|indexing, News, ontology|Comments Off on Database of Chemicals Creates Community

Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.

White House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules

By |December 7th, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on White House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules

The White House is releasing guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking. The result will be a living document open to public comment during an event hosted by the Brooking Institution in Washington, D.C.

ProQuest Expands Their Digital Products

By |December 7th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on ProQuest Expands Their Digital Products

ProQuest is expanding its service to government markets through the acquisition of the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault.

DocuWare Maintains Quality Management System

By |December 7th, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on DocuWare Maintains Quality Management System

DocuWare recently announced that they have applied for and received ISO 9001 recertification in 2010. The main requirement for certification is inplace methods and processes to prevent errors and maintaining a seamless Quality Management System.

What is Too Much Information?

By |December 6th, 2010|News, Technology|Comments Off on What is Too Much Information?

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the amount of digital data and information available? It is no surprise. The amount of data available on the Web ever day continues to reach record-setting proportions, with an estimated 30-percent growth per year.

New Semantic Software for PR Professionals

By |December 6th, 2010|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on New Semantic Software for PR Professionals

A new web application has been launched in beta to provide a resource for journalists, editors, etc. to quickly access press releases. PRFilter ranks the relevance to the user based on a profile of their interests built automatically from their own articles. Further filtering on the ranked results makes it easy to find the most relevant stories.