DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #35

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Since many of you were off on Presidents’ Day, we’ve saved Monday’s digital asset management tip for today.  With such a short week ahead of us, use this DAM Mondays tip to streamline some of your workflows.

Tip #35

Use the Get Links feature in Gallery Mode when viewing images to get direct and embeddable links for different automatically generated sizes.  Then, add them to a blog, email campaign, website, etc.

We Can’t Get Enough of Your DAM Love this Valentine’s Day!

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

The large majority of you have filled out our customer satisfaction survey and the conclusion we came to was — you love us, you really love us! Getting all your feedback was great. Below, you will find some of the survey results, but first…

To show our appreciation this Valentine’s Day, we’re giving you a major sweet treat. We’ve made this fun video of our two co-founders grooving to “We can’t get enough of your Love” in honor of you, our valued customers. It’s not every day when you can get a CEO and VP on roller skates with 70s hair. We love our founders for being such good sports and most importantly, we love our customers. Please enjoy!

Wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day


And Now, The Customer Satisfaction Survey

Top scores were awarded in many categories, and we’d like to highlight some of the major topics that matter most to you.

100% of all customers provided positive and high ratings for the following categories: responsiveness of support, product features, capabilities, and communications of new feature releases.

We received the highest amount of praise and feedback about our awesome customer support team:

“This is a DAM excellent product and is supported by a fantastic, responsive DAM staff. I highly recommend working with the folks at WebDAM “ – Miami University

“The customer service has been nothing less than fantastic.” – Root Capital

“Their customer service and response to questions is outstanding” – FCU

“The support staff is always very responsive to our needs and friendly.” – University of Texas

“Customer service is knowledgeable and there is NOT another digital asset manager out there like this.” – LearningRx

Rating the quality of WebDAM, nearly 100% of customers said it meets and exceeds their expectations. When asked, How likely is it that you will continue to use WebDAM in the future? 100% of the customer responses communicated they will be using WebDAM in the future and are not going anywhere.

“Would (and have) highly recommended the system.” – University of Washington

“WebDAM is an amazing system and has been a god send for me and I’m eternally grateful.” – Eagle Rider

We also received some wonderful feedback on new digital asset management features desired. We encourage feedback like this, as we are continuously innovating and growing upon our solution. Your great suggestions have been placed in our product roadmap discussions, voting process, and prioritized for future releases.

On a day like Valentine’s Day, we cannot express our appreciation for your feedback enough. The past years have been very exciting for WebDAM and it’s due to our great customers. The next years are going to be even more exciting, with growing innovation and new features. We find it fitting and entertaining to conclude by quoting one of the masters of romance, Barry White, “Your love for me is all I need.” and we’re saying that to you, our WebDAM customers. Happy Valentine’s Day!

DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #34

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Have you ever had the common problem of knowing what you wanted to find, but you didn’t know how to search for it?  Well you’re in luck because today’s digital asset management tip gives you some great insight to advanced search options.

Tip #34

Get to know advanced search techniques such as the negative operator and Partial matches.  Learn about these operators and more from the search tips icon on the power search page in your WebDAM.

DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #32

Monday, January 30th, 2012

In case you didn’t hear about our exciting news, we had a huge release that enables you to seamlessly integrate your WebDAM with all of your other business apps.  Want to hear more about it, read today’s DAM Mondays digital asset management tip…

Tip #32

Many cloud based platforms have an API or application programming interface available so that they can be seamlessly integrated with other systems.  WebDAM is no exception. Learn about the WebDAM API on our developer’s page.

DAM Integration at its Best —WebDAM API Now Available!

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012


Get ready to fall in love with DAM all over again, because now your WebDAM can actually talk to other apps and do so much more.  WebDAM, the digital asset management leader in the cloud, has marketing and creative teams from all over the world thrilled to hear about the public release of our REST API.
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #31

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Today’s DAM Mondays tip talks about one of our users’ favorite features.  If you’re not already utilizing this in your DAM, then take this tip and test it out.  I guarantee this will improve your current workflows.

Tip #31

Use lightboxes to select digital assets for projects and collaborate with others.  You can share the lightbox with other users or email a lightbox link or download invite.

DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #30

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Happy MLK Day!  Begin this week with a digital asset management dream to fulfill all your image requests easily with today’s DAM Mondays tip.

Tip #30

Use the Request Manager to manage the many requests for images and brand assets that you receive.  Approve or deny access in one click.

Winner of Our DAM Customer Contest!

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Just to say thanks for being a DAM customer in 2011 we provided a complimentary customer contest for a chance to win an iPad 2.  We were glad to see the WebDAM love shine through during the holiday season and we’d like to say thanks to all of our customers.  As you know users were placed in a random drawing for the iPad 2.  And I bet you’re all dying to know if you’ll be the lucky new owner.

Ladies and gentlemen…

Drumroll please….

[Envelope Opens]

And the winner of our DAM Customer Contest is our very valued customer, Roy Kaltschmidt who also works at Lawrence Berkley Labs, a national organization that brings science solutions to the world.  Congratulations on being the winner of a brand new iPad 2! As a senior photographer and WebDAM admin Roy noted WebDAM as “a well thought out, user friendly database” and “easy to use for even the most novice person.”  Thanks for the kind words Roy, and now you have one of the latest sought after devices where you can stay updated with all our posts in DAM-it! The Blog and whatever else you’d like to use it for.

Cheers!

Stay tuned for more DAM customer contests.

Top 10 Web APIs — Bridging Today’s Technology

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Top Web APIsWith the explosion of application programming interfaces (APIs), the web has become an intermingling of technology, as if all your favorite applications got together at a speed-dating event.  Using web APIs, programmers can now mingle the capabilities of multiple applications together. By doing such, they eliminate the need of clicking through different applications—all serving different purposes. So, what is the best API deliverable? Instead of standing on opposite ends of a virtual wall, a window (with nice trimmings!) has been installed to grant data access, allowing different applications to socialize and make friends with each other.

With so many fish in the sea and increased availability of internet-based services, we all ask ourselves “What are the Top Web APIs out there?” After speaking to internal and external web service experts, we have published the answer. (more…)