Use our DAM Mondays tip to avoid getting into a mess your legal department has to clean up because of copyright confusion…
DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #29
Monday, January 9th, 2012Tags: copyrights, Digital Asset Management, metadata
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #25
Monday, December 12th, 2011Are you getting ready for festive parties or holiday events happening in the next few weeks? Here’s a great tip to have your pictures practically organize themselves.
Tip #25
Make sure to ask your photographers to synchronize their camera times. It will ensure users can find images by the date they were taken.
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #19
Monday, October 31st, 2011Happy Halloween! For all you ghosts and ghouls out there we have your digital asset management tip for the week. In a DAM there’s nothing scarier than messy metadata, so don’t let your DAM get out of hand by following this tip.
Tip #19
Create a Metadata Best Practices Guide for your users. Include information such as when to add metadata, which fields are required, and how to tag assets.
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #11
Monday, September 5th, 2011Happy Labor Day! This Monday you get a double treat. It’s a holiday, plus you still get your DAM Mondays Tip! To make sure your workflows stay smooth and efficient take my advice…
Tip #11
Communicate with your users regularly to be sure they’re finding what they need in the database easily and quickly. You may learn that it is time to revisit your metadata strategy.
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata
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Controlled Vocabulary Webinar Questions and Answers
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011The second webinar of the Summer Webinar Series, “Controlled Vocabulary: Implementing a library of keywords to improve consistency and search-ability” had a terrific turnout with a lot of great participation. Thanks to those of you who attended, we appreciate all the feedback we got! For those of you who were not able to make it, don’t miss out on our Controlled Vocabulary webinar, the recording is available for download here!
We’ve received a lot of good questions during the webinar and wanted to post them for everyone as another resource for when you develop out your controlled vocabularies. (more…)
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata, Webinars
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #9
Monday, August 22nd, 2011Happy Monday! Hope you all had nice weekends so you can easily transition to having a nice week. Here’s today’s digital asset management tip that can help prevent a lot of headaches.
Tip #9
Avoid copying or duplicated assets at all costs. Duplications lead to redundant data, inconsistencies in metadata, and a lot of extra work.
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata
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Registration is now open for our Controlled Vocabulary Webinar!
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011Webinar, webinar, get your webinars here!!! We’re excited to be presenting the second digital asset management webinar of the Summer Webinar Series with Leigh Ann Ledford.
In this webinar we will explore the topic of controlled vocabulary and how it applies to selecting, implementing, and managing a digital asset management system. Attendees will gain the insight they need to develop a keyword library for use within their digital workflows and metadata efforts. Join WebDAM’s customer success manager, Leigh Ann as she hosts this valuable webinar that will help you use controlled vocabulary to enhance the search-abilty and usability of a digital asset management system.
What: “Controlled Vocabulary: Implementing a library of keywords to improve consistency and search-ability.”
When: Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 10am PT
Want to get a little more familiar with controlled vocabulary before the webinar?
Take a look at our blog post “Feature in Focus: Controlled Vocabulary” where Leigh Ann briefly highlights this WebDAM feature… http://www.webdamsolutions.com/digital-asset-management/controlled-vocabulary/
Other Upcoming Webinars:
Building the Framework: Organizing your digital assets for any business
Thursday, September 15 at 10 am (PT)
User Adoption: Engaging your team with a communication plan
Thursday, October 13 at 10 am (PT)
Previous Webinars:
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata, Webinars
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #3
Monday, July 11th, 2011Welcome to Webinar Week! This week’s webinar is Metadata 101: Building a Solid Foundation, so it’s only fitting we stick with the theme. Here’s a metadata tip for your Monday.
Tip#3
Create a custom metadata schema to tailor metadata fields for the needs of your organization. Create custom fields, disable unused fields, and change field names to be more familiar to your users.
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata
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Top 5 Ways to Improve the Search in your DAM
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
In digital asset management, the search function allows you to find what you’re looking for quickly and easily. This time saving feature can be fully utilized by making sure your DAM is organized. By taking a good look at some of the basic DAM fundamentals, DAM greatness can be achieved. Just a few changes can optimize your assets for search! After all, one of the key benefits of having a DAM is to make workflows quicker and easier. With all your assets at your immediate fingertips, you’ll be unstoppable!
Tags: Digital Asset Management, metadata, Retrieval
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WebDAM is Granting your Webinar Wishes with a Digital Asset Management Summer Webinar Series
Thursday, June 30th, 2011You’ve been requesting some DAM webinars and now your wishes are coming true- in a whole series! To continue our commitment to customer success at WebDAM, we’re excited to announce our summer webinar series on digital asset management. We’ll be covering all of our customers most requested topics from metadata strategies to user adoption. These webinars will be hosted by our very own customer success manager, Leigh Ann Ledford! Visit our previous post, Do You Have a Customer Success Manager??? and get reacquainted with Leigh Ann and her important role here at WebDAM.
Leigh Ann will start off the series with “Metadata 101: Building a Solid Foundation” on Thursday, July 14 at 10am PT featuring our very own industry expert, Jody Vandergriff. All the webinars in this series are perfect for users across all levels of experience. To reserve your spot today, or to get a closer look at this webinar, register for free here.
To check out the whole series and uncover the topics that will be presented in the upcoming webinars, visit the Summer Webinar Series Schedule. Space is limited so save the dates and make sure to reserve your seat as soon as the registration pages become available.
Fresh off the press, read this press release that reveals more information about the series at: http://webdamsolutions.com/press_summer_webinar_series.php
Join us in our Summer Webinar Series and have fun learning about Digital Asset Management!
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