DAM Foundation Digital Asset Management Training Courses
Over on DAM Guru this month, there is an interview with Elizabeth Keathley and Mark Davey from DAM Foundation about the training courses they offer. […]
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Widen Release Media Collective Version 8.0
The timing of this update from Widen regarding their Media Collective SaaS DAM might not be entirely ideal (from their perspective) as a segue to our recent item about DAM innovation (or lack thereof). I would imagine they might prefer to take an alternative view. Here are the highlights:
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DAM Innovation – Who Hit The Pause Button? (Part 2)
In part one of this two part series, I discussed how the level of innovation in the Digital Asset Management industry has reached a plateau recently which the evidence suggests it cannot now advance beyond. I made reference to Jeff Lawrence’s CMSWire article as it contained an aggregated selection of …
Continue reading »DAM Foundation Ten Core Characteristics Update – Vendor Compliance Reviews
DAM Foundation have recently announced that they are now testing DAM vendors for their ten core characteristics, based on an article Elizabeth Keathley wrote last year. The ten attributes are formalised in this article by Mark Davey. They have checked and approved about 16 different vendor products …
Continue reading »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 vendor roadmaps for 2015 via two articles. There are some interesting aspects to this, but for those interested in critically analysing our sector with a …
Continue reading »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 …
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