Category: Opinion

I have written a two-part feature article for DAM News entitled Re-Defining The Meaning And Scope Of Digital Assets.  This continues my examination of the themes in the item from last month, Appreciating The Value Of Digital Assets but I have gone into far more detail about distinctions between …

To get proceedings started off for 2016 on DAM News in terms of comment and analysis, I have written an article for our features section: Appreciating The Value Of Digital Assets: Understanding The Potential Of DAM In 2016.  The item describes the current state of the DAM market (which …

Last week, CMSWire published an article by Mohan Taylor, from North Plains: DAM Goes to Market(ing).  This is one of the better argued pieces I’ve read about handling the marketing use-case in DAM:

“I fundamentally believe that the software solution is only as good as the …

An issue I seem to encounter a lot when dealing with organisations who require assistance with their Digital Asset Management initiatives is a widespread misunderstanding about the difference between Digital Asset Management and Digital Marketing.  You will often find those with responsibility for the latter being asked to make executive …

In the last few weeks, there have been a few different articles and videos which cover Digital Assets in less task-specific terms and discuss the topic in a wider business context.  Some are better than others.  The first of these: The three steps to becoming a ‘hypergrowth’ company in the …

This week the DAM EU conference was held in London.  As with previous years, I was unable to attend this event due to some client upgrade roll-outs that I get co-opted into troubleshooting around this time, although I was able to get along to the London DAM meetup in the …

Ben Smidt, who is manager of the DAM Guru Programme has contributed a feature article for DAM News that both collates and discusses some of the comments expressed by some of their members about our article series: What’s Holding DAM Back:

“I believe strongly that any industry …

It is a month since we published the What’s Holding DAM Back? series of article which was written by Jeff Lawrence, David Diamond and myself.  Previous to that we published, our critique of current DAM innovation which used Jeff’s CMSWire article as a primary source.  There have been a some …

Today, we have published a multi-contributor, three-part feature article series on the theme: What’s Holding DAM Back?  The subject is tackled from three perspectives: customers, vendors and the media, with each author addressing one of the aspects.  The writers are: Jeff Lawrence of consulting group, Celerity (and a …

In part one of this two part series, I discussed how the level of innovation in the Digital Asset Management industry has reached a plateau recently which the evidence suggests it cannot now advance beyond. I made reference to Jeff Lawrence’s CMSWire article as it contained an aggregated selection of …

This is part 1 of a series of articles about DAM Innovation.

On CMSWire this week, Jeff Lawrence has given an overview of various DAM vendor roadmaps for 2015 via two articles.  There are some interesting aspects to this, but for those interested in critically analysing our sector with a …

On DAM Guru last week, there was an interesting interview with Laurel Calsoni, who you can follow on Twitter @DigitalArchivst.  The item is a good one and Laura makes a number of points I would agree with.  There is one, in particular, in answer to the question “what …