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.

Social Media Provides Medium for Access

By |September 29th, 2010|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Social Media Provides Medium for Access

Papros Inc. has made supply chain communications easier to access, record and archive for suppliers and customers alike by leveraging the power of social media and resulting in better educational outreach and eliminating multiple requests/responses from customers.

Consumer Products Getting a Machine Assigned Reputation

Consumer-generated content continues to grow at a rapid pace. Much of this is caused by online purchases and the consumer reviews/ratings spurred by that growth. So it should be no surprise that marketers are spending a great deal of their time trying to monitor and manage the online consumer-generated information, and many are using Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task

By |September 28th, 2010|Autoindexing, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task

The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DoL) partnered with DATAMARK to scan an estimated 2.5 million pages of paper records into digital image files for long term storage and retrieval.

EasyAsk Integrates in the Cloud with NetSuite

By |September 28th, 2010|indexing, News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on EasyAsk Integrates in the Cloud with NetSuite

EasyAsk, provider of natural language search and query software for corporate applications has integrated its EasyAsk Business Edition with the NetSuite cloud computing platform. Using NetSuite's SuiteCloud development platform, the combined solution will help NetSuite users of all types search their NetSuite data to identify and act upon new sales opportunities, proactively service customers, and execute key business processes faster and more efficiently.

Multinational Community Progresses with Standards

By |September 27th, 2010|News, Standards|Comments Off on Multinational Community Progresses with Standards

IFLA (international Federation of Library Associations) was not historically thought of as a place for standards but in the last few years they have been actively working in both support of and development of standards and guidelines. Their latest offering is the Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts, which is a guide to provide the multinational community a standard set of definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in English and a variety of other languages.

Executive Interviews Will Be Featured on Knowledgespeak

By |September 27th, 2010|Business strategy, indexing, News|Comments Off on Executive Interviews Will Be Featured on Knowledgespeak

Scope e-Knowledge Center will be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 6-10, 2010. In addition to Scope's diverse services, Knowledgespeak, a daily news alert service published by Scope, will also be conducting a series of exclusive interviews with select industry executives during the fair.

Shaking the Image of Dusty Archives

By |September 24th, 2010|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Shaking the Image of Dusty Archives

10-year project, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby's Heritage, tied with a Smithsonian Institute project last month for ArchivesNext's award for best repurposing of digitized data. The online project allows visitors to Heritage Burnaby's website to click on and learn about historic locations on each of the maps.

Voice Technology: Moving Forward

By |September 24th, 2010|News, Technology|Comments Off on Voice Technology: Moving Forward

One author wonders if voice technology has what it takes to take us into the next century and next great technological advancement. After testing several different products, he gives us his thumbs up.