Category: Special Features

DAM consultant and librarian Annella Mendoza has kindly provided a DAM News feature article entitled ‘The DAM Team‘, an excellent piece that adds to our growing number of resources examining the personnel involved in setting up and running a DAM initiative.  This detailed and in-depth piece uses clear …

Hassan Kotob, CEO of North Plains, has contributed a feature article for DAM News, What Does 2016 Hold For DAM?  The item is relatively short (compared to some of our feature pieces) but contains a number of well-argued points, for example:

“Successful adoption of DAM requires consultancy and …

On our features section, I have written an article with some advice and recommendations about how to treat document assets which might be of interest to readers who have a number of assets of this type held within their DAM (or those who plan to in the future):

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Deborah Fanslow, has written the fourth and final instalment of her DAM News feature article series: Who Needs a DAM Librarian?  Part IV: The Rise of the Information Professional.  The item continues the same the device of using a job interview between a hiring manager and an information …

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 …

DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written a whitepaper: Metadata Management Strategies For Digital Asset Management.  The reports discusses a three-way strategy for improving the quality of metadata applied to assets in DAM systems:

• Simplify the process of entering metadata
• Educate users about how to catalogue assets properly

Ralph Windsor, contributing editor at DAM News has written a special feature article exclusively for us: Resolving The DAM UX Paradox.  The piece is mainly concerned with the differences between the interface needs of heavy DAM users vs more occasional usage.

Ralph describes how there is a paradox unfolding …

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 …

DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written another special feature exclusively for us.  This piece is called: DAM Vital Signs – Performance Review Techniques To Enhance ROI.  The article examines several different methods for auditing DAM systems and combining that data with user feedback to meet the wider …

DAM News editors, Ralph Windsor and Nick Brookes have collaboratively written this special whitepaper: Digital Asset Management Hosting: Making The Right Decision For Your Organisation.  The document considers the various hosting options available for DAM solutions from internal, self-hosted, SaaS and hybrid choices also.  Both the risks and the …