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.

New CEO Brings Ontology Experience to the Job

By |November 19th, 2010|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on New CEO Brings Ontology Experience to the Job

Halfpenny Technologies, Inc. has named Gai Elhanan, M.D., M.A., as the company’s chief medical information officer (CMIO). In his new role, Dr. Elhanan will be responsible for directing the development of Halfpenny’s clinical and analytical technology solutions.

Agility Seems to be the Word of the Week

By |November 17th, 2010|Business strategy, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Agility Seems to be the Word of the Week

TM Forum’s Management World remained focused on operations this year. Even if their expansion into “specialist streams” might have initially confused some people into thinking TM Forum is “straying” from its core competency.

Greater IT Agility is the Biggest Desire from Business Leaders

By |November 17th, 2010|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Greater IT Agility is the Biggest Desire from Business Leaders

The annual InformationWeek Analytics Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey shows that they need systems that can be quickly adapted to support changing requirements--to get the most out of an acquisition, enter a new market, or find new customers.

Best Web Face Forward

By |November 16th, 2010|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Best Web Face Forward

A recent survey revealed almost half of business technology professionals run more than five separate online sites. This was according to the InformationWeek Analytics 2010 Corporate Web Presence Survey. So how good are we at multi-tasking?

Semantic Technology in Travel

By |November 16th, 2010|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in Travel

UpTake Networks has acquired social hotel recommendation site, Real Travel. Combine this with their semantic search engine designed to help travelers research and decide where to go, where to stay and what to do, the online travel research experience is accelerated.