G.David Dodd has written a guest post on the ADAM blog where he follows up some of the observations I have made about ROI. The analysis piece covers the wider discussion area of marketing technology investments in general, not just DAM. His article handles the ROI subject more skilfully …
Continue reading »This article by Kristy Smith on iMedia Connection: 5 Ways Nonprofits Can Leverage Digital Asset Management has been picked up by a few people I follow on Twitter, notably @widenenterprises and @davidriecks (maybe some others I’ve missed too). Kristy works for Nationwide Children’s Hospital and she explains some of the …
Continue reading »David Riecks has written an article for DAM Coalition: Why Can’t I Lock Up My Photo Metadata? where he discusses various options for preventing the modification of metadata. He also explains why it will be difficult to achieve with currently available image formats and the tools to manipulate them without …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Russia-based Daminion, have released version 1.0 of their flagship workgroup DAM. The main new features are:
Back in March this year, I wrote an article for DAM News: An Introduction To DAM Findability Techniques. Ilka Martin of Xenario GmbH has kindly provided us with a translated German language edition which those whose first language is not English might find easier to read. Eine Einführung in …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Extensis, announced yesterday that they have integrated their Portfolio Server DAM system with Swiss based Collection Management System (CMS) vendor, zetcom. This quote from Amanda Paull, VP of Marketing at Extensis seems to be a fair summary:
“Collections Management Systems …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a special feature article for DAM News: How To Encourage All Your Employees To Use Your Digital Asset Management System. Brandworkz, as their name might suggest, are more oriented towards the Brand Management side of DAM (or Brand …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz have upgraded their Digital Asset Management system of the same name to 5.1.2. The key new features include:
We have covered DAM ROI a lot recently and the dubious methods proposed by some to prove it using flawed mathematical models. Jeff Lawrence at consultants, Celerity has written an item on this subject:
“Don’t make the mistake of using reduced work hours as a cost-saving justification. For …
Continue reading »In addition to our own whitepapers which we featured earlier this week, there have been a few others published. In the interests of balance, we’ll cover two from different vendors: Picturepark and Extensis.
The Picturepark “Enterprise DAM Checklist” is fairly comprehensive and covers a lot of ground, including:
Time Strehl, whose blog we were feature on our resources page, has written a post about applying Linked Data to problem of a universal search facility find for finding images on the web that allows descriptive metadata and licensing information to be integral element of both searching and …
Continue reading »Remko Noteboom, CTO of one of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw Technology, has contributed a special feature article for DAM News: Configurable Workflow Systems. The item explores the opportunity in applying some techniques from large-scale manufacturing and industrialisation to the management of digital content, especially with reference to …
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