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.

Business Process Optimization – Work in Progress

By |September 3rd, 2010|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Business Process Optimization – Work in Progress

Business process optimization is not a project that can be completed overnight, nor is it a specific architecture or business model.

Microsoft + Yahoo = Bing

By |September 3rd, 2010|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Microsoft + Yahoo = Bing

Scarcely a week after Yahoo and Microsoft announced the transition of Yahoo searches to Microsoft Bing infrastructure, the two search engine giants have announced that the integration of the back end technology is complete.

Lucene Revolution — Conference Dedicated to Open Source Enterprise Search

By |September 2nd, 2010|News, reference|Comments Off on Lucene Revolution — Conference Dedicated to Open Source Enterprise Search

Apache Lucene and Solr open source search technologies are playing host to the first-ever conference in the US devoted to open source search. The conference will take place October 7-8, 2010 at the Hyatt Harborside, Boston, Massachusetts.

Words of Advice From A Departing Yahoo’er

By |September 2nd, 2010|News, search|Comments Off on Words of Advice From A Departing Yahoo’er

Yet another major departure from Yahoo in recent days. Yahoo VP for Social Platforms Neal Sample has left the company for eBay where he will be the chief of architecture.

More Commitment from Google for Realtime Search

By |September 2nd, 2010|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on More Commitment from Google for Realtime Search

Search engine Google has recently announced expanded commitment for providing real time search results. Social media is the generating force.

New Director of Interoperability Certification for Open Geospatial Consortium

By |September 1st, 2010|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on New Director of Interoperability Certification for Open Geospatial Consortium

Dr. Luis E. Bermudez has been appointed Director of Interoperability Certification for the OGC where he will among other things, manage the OGC Certification Program and lead plugfest activities.

New Version of Enterprise Semantic Intelligence Knowledge Suite Available

By |September 1st, 2010|News, ontology, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Version of Enterprise Semantic Intelligence Knowledge Suite Available

Transinsight released the next version of its Enterprise Semantic Intelligence Knowledge Suite at the I-SEMANTICS Conference in Graz, Austria.

Integration – The Most Overlooked Component of Semantic Technologies

By |September 1st, 2010|News, semantic|1 Comment

Sean Martin, CTO of Cambrige Semantics was recently interviewed on his views of integration.