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Why Findability Is Critical To DAM ROI
The premise of this article is that the quality of metadata you apply to assets dramatically affects the chances of them being found and subsequently used. This has a major …
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DAM Vendors Pricing Survey 2018
Author: Ralph Windsor
The 2018 DAM Vendors Pricing survey is the only study of vendor …
Continue reading »This glossary was originally written by DAM consultants, Daydream and was donated to DAM News in February 2013. It covers common terminology used in the field of Digital Asset Management and is the copyright of Digital Asset Management News. You may link to it, but you are not permitted to …
Continue reading »One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Southpaw Technologies, have released a Mac OS X edition of their TACTIC production DAM system. The Mac version contains the same features as the Windows edition:
“Once we launched our open source system, we began receiving more and …
Continue reading »David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director at Picture Park and contributor to DAM News has written an article for CMSWire, provocatively titled: 5 Good Reasons to Avoid DAM Software. The item is partly tongue-in-cheek and uses a mix of Luddite arguments and deliberate reduction …
Continue reading »One of the DAM News featured vendors, ADAM have an article by a guest author, David Dodd, Streamlining the Marketing Materials Supply Chain:
“…the marketing materials supply chain is a large, and largely untapped, source of cost savings and revenue-enhancing improvements. In most companies, the supply chain …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion Software have released version 0.9.7b of their flagship DAM system. Apart from wining the award for more obscure product version number of the week (and they’re not even open source!) the update contains a variety of new features:
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:
On CMSwire,com, Henrik de Gyor has written an article Should I Auto-tag or Crowdsource my Metadata.
The summary of the post is that there are a combination of either automated methods and crowdsourcing techniques which can potentially be used for asset metadata cataloguing, but you need to test each …
Continue reading »Edward Smith writing for CMSWire.com discusses some trends he sees in prospect for the DAM industry. They are:
This CMO.com article was written by Nick Van Weerdenburg, Senior Product Marketing Manager from one of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains. It is mercifully free of sales spin about how great NP are and explains how more demanding requirements from other industries have helped shape DAM solutions and …
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This guest post is written by David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director of DAM vendors, Picturepark.
The Inhumanity of DRM
We DAM professionals are increasingly fascinated about digital rights management (DRM). We want to protect our content, and we’re constantly on the hunt …
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