Yesterday, CMSWire ran an article Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop written by David Diamond, author of the The DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director of […]
Continue reading »Last month, I wrote an article for CMSWire: Real World Digital Asset Management ROI where I looked at some of the popular methods you see used for ‘proving’ ROI in a quantitative fashion. The summary was that when consultants, analysts and vendors offer hard ROI numbers to support a pre-implementation …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, evolphin, announced an update to their product, Zoom. The new features are centred around workflow and automation in particular:
Last week, we reported that the UK Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which contained a section permitting orphan works had been passed. This follows earlier legislation by the EU allowing government agencies to do the same. David Riecks has written an article: Six Ways to Keep your Digital …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw, who are better known by the name of their flagship system, TACTIC, have released version 4.0 of their open source DAM solution. The new features include:
This quote from CEO, Gary …
Continue reading »David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director at Picturepark and previous contributor to DAM News has written a special feature for us once more with the title: Become A DAM Superhero. The article discusses how often a single individual within an organisation is required to …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, have released version 5 of their core DAM offering. As seems to be a common theme with their press, finding out what is new is a linguistic challenge in itself, but this seems to be the summary:
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have added two features they call “Web-To-Digital” and “Web-To-Mobile”. They appear to be automated derivative (or surrogate) asset generation capabilities. This from the digital one:
“Marketers responsible for digital marketing specifically have access to the web-to-digital feature which generates digital …
Continue reading »After a brief pause, we are resuming our ongoing analysis of DAM Value chains. For those who are new to this subject, the introductory article explains more about what it is. Next up on the list of subjects, is Collaboration.
What Is Meant By Collaboration?
In DAM terms, …
Continue reading »Despite several previous attempts to protect orphaned works from use without their owner’s permission, new legislation has recently been passed in UK parliament that will enable organisations to use photographic or any other creative works for commercial or non-commercial purposes and without their owners’ permission as long as a “diligent …
Continue reading »Subscribers to David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary group may have seen a post by David himself: why app developers / providers have such a dim view of their users intellectual property. This describes an exchange he had with developers on EyeEm, including this response:
“it’s definitely not a technical challenge. …
Continue reading »Jason Hirthler, content strategy director at LBi New York, has written an article for MarketingProfs.com entitled ‘Seven Essential Skills for the Content Strategist’. The article examines what essential skills proficient content strategists must have and how content strategists can also assist the marketing team in keeping a clear focus on …
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