Dam News & Articles

It’s a DAM New Year. In recent digital asset management news, WoodWing and Simian update, reasons to avoid DAM systems, a metadata briefer, DAM interns and salary ranking.

A new Elvis has left the building as WoodWing Software, which purchased the Elvis Digital Asset Management (DAM) software in October, has released its first update.

These are good times for metadata. In fact, these are great times.

I’ve worked in Digital Asset Management software marketing for more than 14 years. In that time, while I’ve been doing everything I can to shine a light on the benefits of DAM, I’ve heard DAM naysayers make convincing arguments to the contrary. Below are the five best arguments against DAM that I’ve ever heard.

Someone recently asked me again about finding some DAM interns. I have received repeated emails asking where organizations can find Digital Asset Management (DAM) interns for a while now, so here is my answer in the form of a blog post openly shared with all.

DAM, what a year.

If you want to make Edward Smith's day, ask him about digital asset management. No, really. He takes great pleasure in educating the unknowing masses on the hows, whats and whys of DAM when he's not busy writing poetic tributes. Find out what else Ed has to say about his field. 

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me,

• Twelve workflow diagrams drumming
• Eleven copyright lawyers piping
• Ten change management requests a-leaping
• Nine metadata fields dancing
• Eight user-experience scenarios a-milking the design team
• Seven servers crashing … again
• Six search strings a-laying
• Five golden file formats … if only
• Four calling vendors with proposed solutions
• Three integration plans that work (ho ho ho)
• Two turtle dove taxonomies
• And a DAM solution that works in our company!

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It’s the last DAM Lowdown of the year. And, in digital asset management news before the ball drops, North Plains and FocusOPEN update, the DAM Survival Guide goes free, WebDAM looks for partners, Widen and ConceptShare get together, and there are DAM changes a-happening. 

Digital asset management, according to David Diamond’s DAM Survival Guide, is “like dental floss.” If you use it every day, the “long-term benefits are significant,” even though both are inconvenient, tedious and do not display their benefits immediately. 

While no one can predict what 2013 holds for the enterprise, there are some educated guesses to be made and this week we were lucky enough to have some experts weigh in with their vision.

Digital asset management provider WebDAM is launching a Partner Network with three flavors -- Referral, Technology and Reseller Partners.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) software company, Widen has integrated with ConceptShare to make DAM software a more collaborative tool.

Only a few DAM weeks left in 2012 … and, in recent news from the world of digital asset management, Brightcove gets together with ADAM, DAM Coalition relaunches, Axle stays simple, clouds challenge earth, North Plains buys another company and Santa gets updated.