Q-Sensei Chosen as Finalist for IT Innovations Award

By Melody Smith | April 4, 2012

Q-Sensei has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2012 Innovationspreis-IT (IT Innovations Award), “Knowledge Management” category. This particular category comprises solutions for business intelligence, knowledge management, knowledge engineering, idea management, and innovations management.

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Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

By Melody Smith | January 12, 2012

I know I can’t be alone in the amount of spam email I get daily. In fact, I probably receive a lower amount than most. It is amazing that I actually find my real mail, mail I actually want to read, in the middle of all the junk. Then there are the spams that cloak their selves in pretend reality. They are like the fake checks that come in snail mail that are actually offers of credit or some other promotion.

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Eighth Annual Data Harmony Users Group to Focus on Leveraging Users’ Investment in Knowledge Management Software Suite

By Melody Smith | January 10, 2012 |

The Eighth Annual Data Harmony® Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled Feb. 7-9, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico will focus on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which helps users organize information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.

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Taxonomy Meetings 2011 – A Year of Change or Realization?

By Melody Smith | January 9, 2012 |

What are the meetings that cater to people who use controlled vocabularies, like taxonomies? Where should a taxonomist go, click, or attend to learn about the latest implementations and uses of controlled vocabulary strategies? Every company thinks long and hard both about what they do and where to find customers for their products and services. The Information Industry is no different. In the Age of the Internet when everyone’s “knows” about searching and information; it seems like the “information Industry” should be booming, its conferences should be huge, and the attendance incredible, but that is not the case. Why? If the information industry and our little taxonomy segment of the business has gone mainstream, then where are all the people you would expect at the long established industry meetings?

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Back To School

By Melody Smith | October 31, 2011

If you are one of those people who love to learn something new all the time or maybe someone who enjoys going to school as an adult professional, this might be right up your alley. Free university classes – yes, I said free. From Stanford School of Engineering, an experiment in distributed education that offers “Machine Learning” free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.

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ASIST in the Big Easy

By Melody Smith | October 24, 2011

The ASIST meeting was held in the delightful city of New Orleans this fall. The format, as well as the dates for the meeting was quite different this year and I found it refreshing. This is usually a heavily academic meeting and I go to keep my ears open to the research and trends that the Information Science and Library Schools are talking about. Every now and then there is a nugget I can use to enhance our products and services.

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