DAM News Content: Polite Notice About Copyright
It has come to our attention that a DAM vendor has being making wholesale copies of sections of the DAM News website to use for […]
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Createasphere DAM Conference, New York, 7th-8th October 2013
DAM conference organiser, Createasphere are holding their New York conference between 7th-8th October 2013. The speakers include: Fran Alexander, Steve Saunder and Rob Schuman among others. Not shown as a featured speaker, nor even listed as one at all is Henrik de Gyor, who is, however, apparently presenting what looks …
Continue reading »Selling DAM Systems – It’s All About Trust And Understanding
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark, have recently re-vamped their website and added a number of information oriented articles. We have fairly robust editorial guidelines (as some might have noticed!) and covering website revamps would typically get filed under the ‘no chance’ classification. What they have done, …
Continue reading »Telerik Add Digital Asset Management To Sitefinity
.NET tool vendor, Telerik yesterday announced the release of a new 6.1 edition of their WCM platform, Sitefinity with Digital Asset Management capabilities added:
“Analysts are seeing a nearly 60 percent year-over-year increase in DAM-related client inquiries. These users require the ability to quickly and easily do their job, …
Continue reading »WebDAM Updates SaaS Platform
DAM SaaS vendor, WebDAM solutions, have announced an updated version of their platform with a particular focus on the User Interface – or ‘User Experience’ as these things now get referred to. The stand-out items are:
- HTML5 & JQuery admin interface with drag & drop features – what sounds
Asset Liability And Accessibility Trade-Offs In DAM
David Diamond, Marketing Director of Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Liability Management. The item is about dealing with the complexity of asset licences when storing digital assets inside DAM systems, especially when using media from third party sources that …
Continue reading »WoodWing Release Elvis DAM 4.1
WoodWing Software have released an updated version 4.1 of the Elvis DAM system they acquired last year. The key features seem to be:
- Distributed storage
- Linux server support
- Support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Korean
The update doesn’t sound much, but while the three bullet points given …
Continue reading »New Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory
Last week, we soft-launched a completely revised Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory. This is replacing our existing simplistic A-Z list, which with close to 90 entries had grown rather unwieldy. I am pleased to report that our new directory is now fully live.
On the new DAMVendors.com site, you …
Continue reading »ROI Thresholds In DAM And Marketing Technology Investments
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 »DAM And The Not For Profit Sector
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 »Digital Asset Management And Social Media
DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written a special feature following on the DAM Value Chain subject which we have been examining this year: DAM Value Chain: Social Media. The article is split into two parts. The first of these deals with the use of Social Media techniques …
Continue reading »Locking Up Your Metadata And The Role Of Image Registrars – Time For A Linked Data Solution?
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 …
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