Below are the special feature articles we have published in DAM News.
March 2024
Forrester 2024 DAM Report – Not Waving but Drowing
DAM consultant Ralph Windsor examines the recent Forrester DAM Wave report, and questions the criteria for inclusion, the validity of a ‘pay-to-play’ model, and whether or not …
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The Emerging Media Conference kicks off on 24th January (2011) in San Francisco. The event will cover a variety of new media areas of interest, including:
- Social Gaming
- Augmented Reality
- Mobile Marketing Apps
- Social Networking
- In-Game Advertising
- Widgets
- iPad
- iPhone vs. Droid
- E-readers
Speakers include Jesse Schell (Carnegie Mellon University), …
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CMSReport.com have an article by Tim Ward which compares “Enterprise” with “Open Source” (the article does rely on the reader accepting that the two are mutually exclusive concepts). Some of the arguments against open source seem a little dated (for example, I don’t recall needing to update most open source …
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One of our featured DAM vendors, MailPrint, features a guest article by Erin Haselkorn from Experian QAS on their blog who discusses how inadequate controls on your data entry and acquisition processes can have a devastating impact on the ROI obtained from marketing campaigns as well as sales …
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Rhonda Basler, of Mail Print, one of our featured DAM Vendors, have posted a blog entry about fears many larger organisations have about ceding control over sales and marketing to colleagues in the field and what technology options are available now to assuage those concerns. The fears discussed …
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Steve Radick, writing on the Enterprise 2.0 blog asks a valid question about how frequently developers actually use software they have built for users:
“Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone …
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DAM and print on demand vendors, MailPrint, who are in our featured DAM vendors directory, have recently drawn attention to some research carried out by Aberdeen Group about Print On Demand:
“Among their findings was a correlation between companies that use a Print On-Demand solution and a dramatic …
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Taxonomy Bootcamp on 15-16th November 2010 in Washington DC promises a series of in-depth sessions about how to design and use taxonomies effectively. The topics covered include:
- Creating and implementing successful taxonomies
- Enhancing your information infrastructure with the right taxonomy
- Taxonomy design concepts and strategies
- New technologies & tools and
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Vendor WebDAM have written a blog post that discusses the relative merits of building vs buying a DAM solution. As one might imagine, they tend toward the “buy” side of the argument, however, the points proposed are succinctly put and a fair evaluations of the arguments for building an in-house …
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Collexis, a semantic technology and knowledge discovery software vendor has been acquired by STM publisher, Elsevier. The combination is an an obvious fit, Elsevier publish over two thousand specialist science journals and Collexis’s technology has been widely adopted by the academic market:
“Elsevier’s research performance, planning and funding …
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Mail Print empowers companies and franchises to access, customize and deploy marketing assets from a single system, streamlining marketing and sales processes and improving ROI. Mail Print’s Marketing Communications Portal also uses an API to integrate with CRM, email and database systems, supplementing organizations’ existing processes and structure. Users can …
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As the tech leviathans, including Google, Adobe and Apple, fight it out in the global arena for video format supremacy, the rest of us are left with a bewildering array of choices and incompatibilities to factor into the design of our video workflows:
“For content publishers and consumers, there is …
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