Some of the best advice you’ll hear in the digital asset management space comes from Melissa Pauna. She has learned that derailments should not make one lose sight of the objectives, remaining tenacious and focusing on the big picture can lead to success in less than ideal DAM situations.
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Continue reading »This is the follow-up item to the first part of How Different Will DAM Be In 2030 which discusses Martin Wilson’s article for Information Age: 7 predictions for digital asset management in 2030. In this piece, I will consider the remaining predictions 4-7.
4. Users will demand streamlined simplicity…
Continue reading »UK-based DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have announced version 7.1 of their brand-focussed Digital Asset Management solution of the same name. Overall, it’s about scalability and maintenance enhancements that many end-users will not be particularly conscious of, but there are a few points of interest nonetheless. First, let’s deal with the …
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Mary McMahon discusses the value in being open to questioning existing processes and designs with regard to digital asset management. This approach frees you to bring a new perspective that can lead to breakthroughs in an organization’s DAM system.
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Continue reading »Legacy DAM vendor, Extensis, have announced a recent partnership with workflow vendor, Workfront (who were formerly known as AtTask). Workfront is essentially a project management tool for keeping track of various types of work packages, with a focus on specific business activities, one of which is marketing, which is presumably …
Continue reading »by Margie Foster, MLIS, Information Management
This is the story of two DAM systems at two different companies. The companies shared many similarities. In both cases, the digital asset management system was relegated a home with the design team, where the managers understood the need for a searchable collection …
Continue reading »There have been a couple of interesting articles about DAM workflow recently which I have been intending to get around to discussing on DAM News for a few weeks. One of these is by Roger Howard with the title, Workflow Doesn’t.
Without misinterpreting Roger’s piece, the thesis seems to …
Continue reading »This special feature was contributed by Deborah Fanslow and is the final item in a series of four articles. A PDF is also available for download.
At last, we’ve reached the point where I can effectively answer David Diamond’s call for information professionals to “come …
Continue reading »This is the third part of Deborah Fanslow’s article series: Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part two is also available for anyone who has not read it. Deborah is one of the editors of The DAM Directory and an MLIS qualified librarian. A PDF copy of this article can also …
Continue reading »As reported on CMSWire earlier this week, stock media library, PhotoShelter have recently launched Libris, a SaaS DAM solution. This follows similar moves from other larger stock media libraries such as Shutterstock and then Adobe moving into stock media (going in the other direction). PhotoShelter appear to have …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »DAM Vendor, Canto, have announced version 9.2 of their long-standing DAM solution, Cumulus. The key feature revisions are:
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