DAM Innovation: Who Hit The Pause Button?
This is part 1 of a series of articles about DAM Innovation. On CMSWire this week, Jeff Lawrence has given an overview of various DAM […]
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Digital Photographs And Trustworthiness Of Social Media Platforms: Survey Results
Back in April of this year, we highlighted some research that was being carried out by Jessica Bushey of the University of British Columbia into Digital Photographs And Trustworthiness Of Social Media Platforms. Last week, Jessica emailed participants a copy of the survey summary report. The results are broadly in-line …
Continue reading »Planning And Implementing Digital Asset Migration
A couple of weeks ago, CMSWire ran an article by Jeff Lawrence of Celerity with the title: Using DAM Content Migration to Maximize Asset Value. It has taken me a while to find the time to catch up and read this item but DAM migration is a subject I …
Continue reading »Adobe Acquires Fotolia Stock Media Library
According to VentureBeat yesterday, Adobe have acquired stock photo library, Fotolia for US $800m. They cite the following statement from the official Adobe announcement:
“Adobe today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Fotolia, a leading marketplace for stock content. Fotolia will be …
Continue reading »Canto Upgrades Cumulus To Version 9.2
DAM Vendor, Canto, have announced version 9.2 of their long-standing DAM solution, Cumulus. The key feature revisions are:
- Amazon S3 storage of assets
- Upgraded workflow with review/approval cycles
- What they call “Social DAM”
- Mandatory fields collected at the point of upload
- Duplicate asset checking
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Continue reading »Selecting The Right DAM System For Marketers
Anna Cotton Head of Marketing for DAM vendor, Brandworkz has contributed a feature article for DAM News: DAM Simple: How To Select The Right Digital Asset Management System If You Are A Marketer. The article covers a few pointers about ensuring the vendor you deal with understands what …
Continue reading »Feature Article: Part Two Of Who Needs A DAM Librarian?
Deborah Fanslow, has provided us with the eagerly anticipated (and very well received) second part of her DAM News feature article: Who Needs a DAM Librarian? In Part II: Information Professionals: A Field Guide she continues her detailed analysis by describing the disciplines and fields that information management is …
Continue reading »Solving The DAM Implementation Doughnut Problem
On DAM Guru last week, there was an interesting interview with Laurel Calsoni, who you can follow on Twitter @DigitalArchivst. The item is a good one and Laura makes a number of points I would agree with. There is one, in particular, in answer to the question “what …
Continue reading »Automated Image Descriptions – Why Combining It With Human-Based Cataloguing Will Generate A Higher ROI
A story which has been doing the rounds recently is this post on the Google Research blog. The item describes some AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques Google have used to automatically generate image captions. There is the de rigueur line about a picture being worth a thousand words (can anyone …
Continue reading »WebDAM Digital Asset Management ROI Whitepaper
Cloud DAM Vendor, WebDAM have recently sent us a copy of a paper they have written about how to measure DAM ROI. I must admit, I normally fear getting issued with these documents and asked for an opinion on them, perhaps only slightly less than that other tool …
Continue reading »Consolidated DAM Solutions – Implement Bigger Systems Or Use A Service-Oriented Strategy?
Today, I have published a feature article for DAM News: Devising Strategies For Consolidating DAM Solutions Using A Service Oriented Model. The subject is concerned with the recent interest in consolidating DAM solutions which seems to be a popular one with DAM users who have been through previous implementation …
Continue reading »DAM RFP: Brand USA Digital Asset Management Solution
Over on DAM Projects we have posted details of an RFP for a DAM Solution sent to us by Brand USA who promote travel and tourism to the United States. The project post contains a link to a PDF with all the details. Any questions must be asked before 3rd …
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