DAM And The Asset Life Cycle
One of our featured DAM vendors, Asset Bank have written a blog post: The life of a digital asset “Follow the story from photography of […]
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SharePoint 2013 Overview and Introduction: 4th December 2012, Reading (UK)
ICS Solutions are offering seminars on the new SharePoint 2013 edition next month. The events are being held on 4th December 2012 at Microsoft’s offices in Reading (United Kingdom)
“We’ll explore the features and benefits of the platform through in-depth discussions, demonstrations and usage scenarios. We’ll help you plan …
Continue reading »Myths About HTML5
Chris Heilmann, who is a “principle developer evangelist” at Mozilla (why aren’t there job titles like that in the software companies I do work for?) describes some myths about HTML5, with special reference to the lack of adoption of HTML5 for mobile applications:
- HTML5 doesn’t perform
- HTML5 can not be
Metadata Is Like Voting – And You Need To Have A Plan For Your ‘Cataloguing Cliff’ Next Too
Andrew Manone has written this post on his own Damaged Workflow blog with a topical twist (for those that follow the US elections, at least) where he adapts the “Vote early, vote often” message to “Tag early, tag often”:
“The tongue-in-cheek phrase about voting when applied to metadata would …
Continue reading »PublishingNOW Roadmap (The Press Release That Should Have Been)
Last week, I was fairly disparaging about ADAM owned publishing software vendor, Van Gennep and their press release about PublishingNOW! 1.2. The copy made it sound more like they were planning to blow up a roundabout near the offices of some publishing company rather than release an updated version …
Continue reading »Enhancing Digital Asset Management With Metadata Streamlining
Jonathan Studiman, writing on his personal products of the industrial age blog discusses some improvements he and his colleagues made to a DAM system he is implementing for The City of Toronto’s Clerk’s Office and City Planning departments. The main point of interest in the article is that the system …
Continue reading »Over 75% Now Have HTML5 Compatible Browsers – But How Many Are Installed Where Your DAM System Is Being Used?
On CMS Report yesterday, an article claimed that over 75% of users in the US (and 83% in Europe) now have HTML5 compatible browsers:
“With nearly 75% of end users in North America, and 83% in Europe, running browsers that support a large segment of the HTML5 feature set, …
Continue reading »ECM – The ‘Big Stuff Management’ Software Fallacy And What Clues It Offers For The Future Of DAM
On Fierce Content Management, Ron Miller speculates that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is more of a name than a real solution:
“I’ve been thinking lately that no company can truly claim to be an enterprise content management vendor because there are so many types of content out there …
Continue reading »VYRE Release On Brand 2,4
One of our featured DAM vendors, VYRE, have released version 2.4 of their system: On Brand. The new features include:
- HTML5 video
- Creative workflow
- Multi-brand capabilities
- Updated help & training resources
- Google analytics integration
This from their blog post:
“Latest enhancements to On Brand include advanced reporting …
Continue reading »ADAM Subsidiary Van Gennep Update Publishing Now
One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM have announced that their subsidiary acquisition, Van Gennep have updated their Publishing NOW! suite.
As is the convention with these things, the more inflated the vendor’s opinion of themselves, the less useful the press releases is – if you want to find …
Continue reading »Orphan Works – Library Of Congress Issue Request For Comments
Last week we covered an article in the The Register about orphan works legislation legislation being approved for public sector organisations by the EU in a so called ‘land grab’ – or straight theft if you subscribe to my own view that owners of intellectual property should have the same …
Continue reading »Brandworkz 5.1 Released
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have released version 5.1 of their flagship DAM system. The new features include:
- Structured Tagging (Hierarchical Metadata)
- Video Transcoding
- Multi-lingual capability (with French as standard)
“Brandworkz 5.1 builds on upon the developments we made in 5.0, giving marketers better even …
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