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.

Feature in Focus: Lightbox

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Allow 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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Get Organized in 2010 with DAM

Monday, March 8th, 2010

It 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…)