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.

Annotations May Be Paving the Way for the Semantic Web

By |July 14th, 2010|News, semantic|Comments Off on Annotations May Be Paving the Way for the Semantic Web

Twitter's annotations are changing the way we interact with the Web.

Semantic Technology – Fact or Fiction?

By |July 12th, 2010|Autoindexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Semantic Technology – Fact or Fiction?

Best Buy implements semantic technology for their Web pages and realizes increased traffic and better service.

Why Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?

By |July 12th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Why Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?

With content management systems offering taxonomy features, why use a taxonomy managment tool at all? There are many reasons why a coordinating taxonomy management tool is not only valuable, but necessary. The system should not be short-circuited by the limitations of a content management system which, trying to serve an array of purposes, doesn't quite match all the functions served by the original parts.

Heather Hedden, Taxonomist – Profiled

By |July 9th, 2010|Folksonomy, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Heather Hedden, Taxonomist – Profiled

Heather Hedden, author of The Accidental Taxonomist, discusses her career highlights.

Russia Ponders Creating a Search Engine Product

By |July 8th, 2010|News, semantic|Comments Off on Russia Ponders Creating a Search Engine Product

As Russia ponders building a new Internet search engine, headhunters are in a tizzy.