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
DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #30
Monday, January 16th, 2012What’s New in WebDAM: Download Request
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011A powerful component of digital asset management is controlling who and when your digital assets are used. With WebDAM, the system administrator has the ability to control this through setting up different permission levels for users and user groups. The administrator manages who can download and who can only view an asset. We are excited to announce an enhancement to this function…the download request feature!
With the new download request feature, administrators no longer have to choose between giving their users the ability to download or only view an asset. Now, they can alternatively choose to give users an opportunity to request a download right from the system!
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Breaking Down DAM (Digital Asset Management) Distribution
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Partners, distributors, media outlets, web producers, ad agencies, publishers—all of those groups depend on your digital media every day. How do you manage these needs? Surprisingly, many companies—both small and large—have no process in place to manage these requests, resulting in project delays and bottlenecks.
This process is known as digital media distribution and is a key component to digital asset management. A DAM’s core functionality includes managing, searching, organization and archiving assets, but what happens when you’re inundated by internal and external requests? (more…)
Feature in Focus: Lightbox
Thursday, April 28th, 2011Allow me to show you the Lightbox!
Lightboxes are the solution to so many distribution challenges, for several reasons, but most importantly, Lightboxes save you time! No more cumbersome downloading, burning images onto a CD, and overnighting disks that may not even be the ones the recipient was hoping for… Or worse, getting lost in the mailroom shuffle!
In my past life in publishing, this would happen time and time again. The photographer would overnight a CD of high resolution images for review… only for our photo editor to say, “I can’t use any of these! Do they have anymore they can send?” Should this happen once and sometimes twice (as it often did), you’ve eaten up a week up precious production time!
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Feature in Focus: Role-Based Permissions
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011DAM Micromanaging!
But in a good way…
Role-based permissions are one of the most customizable features in WebDAM. Utilizing role-based permissions enables the administrator to set different permission levels for viewing, downloading, and even uploading, on a group-by-group basis. This means that you can have all of your digital assets accessible from the same database, but specify by user group – by folder, exactly which assets are available to which user groups!
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Feature in Focus: Click-on Agreement
Friday, March 18th, 2011In this month’s feature in focus, we will go over some of the benefits of using the click-on agreement feature. This tool can be useful for virtually any business using WebDAM for digital asset management. Even if internal users are the only ones downloading your assets, the click-on agreement can be invaluable. Once a user is able to download the asset, they can do whatever they want with it, and often do: email to a third party, use it to print a marketing brochure for major distribution. To the users, this act seems completely harmless. Many people do not know that images have rights and usage terms associated with them. One easy way to combat this haphazard usage is to communicate with your users on how the assets may be used. Enter click-on agreement…
Case Study: WebDAM and the American College of Rheumatology
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Our new case study details how the ACR is utilizing WebDAM to power the foremost collection of rheumatology images. The new Rheumatology Image Bank expedites image request fulfillment through its 24/7 web access, granting journalists, teachers, and researchers the ability to instantly retrieve high-resolution imagery. Read more at: http://www.webdamsolutions.com/casestudies/acr-image-bank.php.
Get Organized in 2010 with DAM
Monday, March 8th, 2010It is a little known fact that “Getting Organized” is considered one of the ten most popular New Year’s Resolutions year after year. After all, an organized life promises to save time, improve focus, and reduce stress. Well, the same can be said for your digital assets. When organized, your digital assets work for you – helping you complete projects efficiently and bring products to market. When they are not organized, however, your digital assets can actually hinder your product pipelines, acting as bottlenecks and fragmenting your workflows. Here is a list of the top 5 ways DAM gets you organized and saves time: (more…)
