Sabine Melnicki

Ahoi! I am Sabine Melnicki from Vienna in Austria. I work on communication and language, learning and knowledge. I like to be where concepts take shape – in structure, design and implementation. I support companies and organisations in getting their ideas ready to set sail.

Selected references

Benedex — Büro für Ernährung — Christa Gierer — dataspects (CH) — Digitalworld Academy — FRECH Interior Design — Galeria Ideal — Hupfer (DE) — JAMJAM — klenner.at — Kolping Österreich — Kulturpool — Libraconsult — lpkern Organisationsberatung — MENTOR — Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG) — Österreichischer Schulbuchverlag (öbv) — Austrian State Printing House — Schreibagentur — Schott, Täubler & Partner — Station Wien — TangoTunes — Volkstheater Wien — Weissglut Architektur — Zentrum für Verwaltungsforschung (KDZ)

My talks

My work focuses on numerous facets of digitalization: communication through language and content, information architecture and data design, visual implementation in branding.

Speaker (en/de) on semantic wikis, knowledge transfer, content design, visual design, open source software, digital autonomy.

"Social Media for Small or Medium-Sized Businesses", Podcast with Isabell Grundschober for DigiCulTS, 2022
"How ugly! – What we can learn from Brutalism in Web Design", WordCamp Vienna, 2020
"How to Successfully Lose Readers", SMWCon Fall in Regensburg, 2018
"Datencockpit.at for GDPR", funded project by netidee, 2018
"MediaWiki and the European GDPR" EMWCon in Houston, Texas, 2018
"Structuring knowledge according to 'Every Page is Page One (EPPO)'" EMWCon in Houston, Texas, 2018
"Between the Brackets", Podcast with Yaron Koren on the topic of MediaWiki, 2018
"Berufe in der IT", Watchado, UBIT Story, 2017

Moreover …

… I hold degrees in German Philology (University of Vienna) and Applied Knowledge Management/e-Learning (FH Burgenland), am a shareholder of TangoTunes GmbH, partner at KMA Knowledge Management Associates and a longtime language trainer. At present, I am a lecturer at FHWien der WKW and FH Campus Wien in knowledge management. Since 2019, I am the host of Buchclub V, the non-fiction reading circle around digital transformation and the future.