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Romney Whitehead
Working in publishing and e-commerce sectors, Romney Whitehead has a depth of knowledge that comes from decades of experience in the digital asset management field.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
As with many digital asset managers I ‘accidentally’ came …
Continue reading »Reducing Digital Asset Volumes And Cataloguing Them More Efficiently
Romney Whitehead, has written an article Curation Before Creation, on her own Borrowed Insight blog where she discusses how the net overhead of managing media has not really diminished with the introduction of digital media, but has merely transferred from one type of activity to another. To illustrate this …
Continue reading »Daminion Update To Version 3.0
One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion, who specialise in low-cost desktop single user and client/server DAM solutions, have announced version 3.0 of their solution. Some of the major additions are:
- Permissions controls to restrict access to assets.
- Direct importing of assets from digital capture devices (e.g. cameras,
Widen Media Collective Upgraded To Version 7.1
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, today announced the new version 7.1 of their Widen Media Collective SaaS DAM solution. The new features include:
- Asset level analytics (reporting on per-asset downloads etc)
- Stylized Collections (branded image galleries derived from favourites/lightboxes/collections etc)
- Video editing and frame-selection (cropping
New DAM Book – Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos
Elizabeth Keathley, of Atlanta Metadata and also DAM Foundation, has written a new DAM book: Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. The title covers a wide range of subjects associated with setting up DAM initiatives, including:
- Differences between DAM,
Brandworkz Partners With Differentia Consulting To Provide Advanced DAM User Behaviour Analytics
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia. Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management And The Politics Of Metadata Integration
Last week in Why Your DAM Needs Purpose And The Reason It Still Lacks It Now, I wrote about how the metadata schema employed in many DAM implementations is not always as relevant as it should be (from the perspective of DAM users). I used David Diamond’s CMSWire article…
Continue reading »Reviewing Existing DAM Solutions: Part 3
In the previous two parts to this article, I examined these topics:
- Identifying sources of existing assets
- Lessons that could be learned from how things were done before (and why)
- Legacy systems
- User feedback and behavioural data
In this final item, I will discuss the issues you need to …
Continue reading »Reviewing Existing DAM Solutions: Part 2
This is the follow-up to the first part of this article published a couple of weeks ago. In that item, I discussed two issues:
- Current sources of assets
- Lessons that could be learned from previous approaches
One of the points covered in some depth was the likely existence of …
Continue reading »DAM Insider – Need To Know Inside Knowledge From DAM Industry Experts
If you have been given the task of getting a Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiative off the ground in your organisation, you will know there is a lot to consider.
From selecting vendors, through to metadata, planning projects and making business critical choices about hosting of the DAM solution, there …
Continue reading »Reviewing Existing DAM Solutions: Part 1
Reviewing existing Digital Asset Management provisions seems to be a common consulting request for my firm these days and is no doubt due to a maturing wider DAM market. Between a third and half of the prospective users of a new DAM system who contact us already seem to have …
Continue reading »CXM – Just One Facet Of Your Digital Asset Management Strategy
Late last year, there was an article written by Elliot Sedegah on business2community.com with the title: Make Digital Assets a Part of Your Marketing Growth Story in Three Steps. I usually find items with titles along the lines of ‘eat yourself thinner in 24 hours’ to be less than …
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