Extensis Update Portfolio For 2016
DAM vendor, Extensis, announced the 2016 edition of their DAM solution, Portfolio yesterday. The new features are described below: Version control Asset check out and […]
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Do You Need Mobile DAM?
One of the recent themes in DAM with the corporate users I deal with, is the role of mobile. When asked to explain the reasoning behind their interest, some commonly-held misunderstandings about our subject are sometimes revealed. These are partly related to topics I mentioned a few weeks ago in …
Continue reading »Using DAM To Integrate Marketing Activities
Last week, CMSWire published an article by Mohan Taylor, from North Plains: DAM Goes to Market(ing). This is one of the better argued pieces I’ve read about handling the marketing use-case in DAM:
“I fundamentally believe that the software solution is only as good as the …
Continue reading »Widen Release Media Collective 9.0
Last week, DAM vendor, Widen, announced version 9.0 of their Media Collective DAM solution. Of particular note was the ‘Insights’ feature, which they released some press about:
“Widen Enterprises, a leading provider of software services that help marketing teams organize content, has launched Digital Asset Management (DAM) …
Continue reading »Planet DAM Now Syndicated On DAM News
Recent visitors to DAM News might notice the sidebar with links from Tim Strehle’s Planet DAM feed which we have now syndicated (with Tim’s permission). Planet DAM is Tim’s hand-picked selection of DAM articles from different participants in our industry and includes vendors, consultants and a variety of personal blogs …
Continue reading »Understanding The Difference Between Digital Marketing And Digital Asset Management
An issue I seem to encounter a lot when dealing with organisations who require assistance with their Digital Asset Management initiatives is a widespread misunderstanding about the difference between Digital Asset Management and Digital Marketing. You will often find those with responsibility for the latter being asked to make executive …
Continue reading »Introduction To The Special Library Association DAM Section
Deb Fanslow who is one of the editors of The DAM Directory (and who wrote the four-part feature article Who Needs A DAM Librarian?) together with John Horodyski have contributed a feature article for DAM News: DAM Student And DAM Professor Combine Forces For DAM Good. The article …
Continue reading »The Confused Picture Of Enterprise Digital Asset Management Adoption
Earlier today,I cam across this item on Computer Business Review: $billion businesses lead digital content management adoption. The basis of the article is some research by analysts Kable where they highlight that approximately 75% of larger businesses with a $1bn+ turnover have now invested into Digital Asset Management technologies …
Continue reading »House & Co Release DigiZuite Media Manager
House & Co (who used to be known as ‘DigiEyeZ’) have announced the release of Media Manager, which is part of their DigiZuite range. The major features are:
- Sharing of media and collaboration on assets and distribution via social media
- Uploading, editing, cropping from all clients (i.e. functional equivalence across
Understanding The Value Embedded In Technology Supply Chains
Earlier this week, I saw an article on CMSWire by Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer of CMS vendor, Hippo. In How to Survive in a World Being Eaten By MarTech, he makes the point that marketing technology vendors need to integrate to enable users to aggregate the benefits of individual classes …
Continue reading »The Guardian Release Open Source ‘Grid’ DAM System
UK newspaper, the Guardian recently announced that they had released their new in-house image management system as an open source application. There is an article about this by one of their developers, Sébastien Cevey:
“For about a year, a small dedicated team has been building the Guardian’s new …
Continue reading »The Reel Thing 2015 Technical Symposium, August 20-22 2015, Los Angeles
The Reel Thing technical symposium sponsored by AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) is running from August 20th to 22nd in Los Angeles later this month. The event deals with current thinking and practical examples of developments in the fields of preservation, restoration and media conservation. If moving image archival …
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