For various reasons, I was not able to make the New York leg of the Henry Stewart DAM trade show earlier this month. This has prompted me to consider what alternatives there are to making contact with other people in DAM and also to contemplate the value of these events …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a featured article for us: DAM Good? Yes, It Can Be! – How To Make Users Love Your Digital Asset Management System. The item was written by Neil Monahan, their Digital Marketing Manager and describes the importance of …
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Working in publishing and e-commerce sectors, Romney Whitehead has a depth of knowledge that comes from decades of experience in the digital asset management field.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
As with many digital asset managers I ‘accidentally’ came …
Continue reading »Romney Whitehead, has written an article Curation Before Creation, on her own Borrowed Insight blog where she discusses how the net overhead of managing media has not really diminished with the introduction of digital media, but has merely transferred from one type of activity to another. To illustrate this …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion, who specialise in low-cost desktop single user and client/server DAM solutions, have announced version 3.0 of their solution. Some of the major additions are:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, today announced the new version 7.1 of their Widen Media Collective SaaS DAM solution. The new features include:
Elizabeth Keathley, of Atlanta Metadata and also DAM Foundation, has written a new DAM book: Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. The title covers a wide range of subjects associated with setting up DAM initiatives, including:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia. Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …
Continue reading »Last week in Why Your DAM Needs Purpose And The Reason It Still Lacks It Now, I wrote about how the metadata schema employed in many DAM implementations is not always as relevant as it should be (from the perspective of DAM users). I used David Diamond’s CMSWire article…
Continue reading »In the previous two parts to this article, I examined these topics:
In this final item, I will discuss the issues you need to …
Continue reading »This is the follow-up to the first part of this article published a couple of weeks ago. In that item, I discussed two issues:
One of the points covered in some depth was the likely existence of …
Continue reading »If you have been given the task of getting a Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiative off the ground in your organisation, you will know there is a lot to consider.
From selecting vendors, through to metadata, planning projects and making business critical choices about hosting of the DAM solution, there …
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