Hooray it’s Thanksgiving week! Use this half week to have some digital asset management fun. Customize your DAM’s homepage with today’s tip before Thursday’s turkey.
Tip #22
DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #22
Monday, November 21st, 2011We’ve Answered Your DAM Questions
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
There were a lot of great questions in our last digital asset management webinar on User Adoption and we’d like to share them with you, along with their answers. As always, the webinar recording and slides are available for download here. As you can tell from the questions, User Adoption is an important topic that many organizations struggle with.
Q: How many people need to be on the DAM team?
A: It isn’t really about the number of people but rather who is represented. If your DAM is just for the Communications team, then you may only have a couple of people on your DAM team. But if you have an enterprise implementation across teams, you will want to include representative from each of those teams. Especially if you have geographically dispersed teams, it is important to include their feedback.
Q: When you talk about gathering feedback and integrating it back into your digital asset management system, what kind of feedback are you referring to? We have a vendor that we work with for our DAM and can’t easily make changes to the software. (more…)
Feature in Focus: Creating DAM Communication with Custom Pages
Thursday, October 20th, 2011Whether you are in the process of implementing a DAM or have had a digital asset management system in place for some time, communicating information, to both seasoned and new users, is an important undertaking. WebDAM has all of the tools you need built right into the system for both quick implementation and easy user access!
Custom pages are flexible and easy to use! Use them to communicate all types of information that will help your users such as:
- DAM Important contacts
- Getting started tips
- Best practices guide
- Business process
- User guides
- Usage terms
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Top 5 Digital Asset Management User Adoption Metrics
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
User adoption is a key factor for digital asset management success. In fact, a DAM is only as useful as its users. Administrators could have the perfect folder structure, a superb controlled vocabulary and keywording system, the best metadata strategy around…but without users, all that amazing organizing goes to waste. It’s like inventing and implementing your own customized dewey decimal system, and no one stepping foot in your library.
So how do you know if your system is gaining user adoption? We’ll provide the metrics you’ll need to monitor and gauge usage of your web-based digital asset management system so you can see if your campaigns and promotions have caught on. Here are different key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring user adoption.
DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #17
Monday, October 17th, 2011Want more detail in your DAM metadata? Today’s digital asset management tip shares how this can be achieved…
Tip #17
Digital photos are packed full of detailed information called EXIF metadata such as image resolution and camera information. WebDAM administrators can enable this information from the Metadata Schema page.
DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #16
Monday, October 10th, 2011Happy Columbus Day! This is a very exciting week because we’ll be hosting the last #WebDAMwebinar of the Summer Webinar series! The topic is DAM user adoption, and a great way to help your users stay on top of the DAM game is in today’s tip…
Tip #16
Give users unique usernames and passwords so they get the most out of every feature, and so that you can track their activity.
User Adoption and DAM: Learn to engage your users in this must-see webinar!
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011Summer is not quite over for all you WebDAM Webinar fans out there. Join us for the final webinar of the Summer Webinar Series with Leigh Ann Ledford on digital asset management. After taking on metadata, folder structure, controlled vocabulary and keywording the last topic that will be discussed is user adoption. The next part is making sure the people in your organization know the benefits and how to use DAM. You’re not alone for this last step, this final webinar is exactly what you need.
The host will guide attendees through the following topics:
- What is a DAM communication plan
- Why is it important to have a communication plan
- Considerations for building your own communication plan
- How to build your communication plan
- Executing the plan and keeping your users engaged
What: “User Adoption: Engaging your team with a communication plan”
When: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10am PT
Space is limited. Register Today!
Previous Webinars:
The first three DAM webinars from the Summer Webinar Series will be available for download along with the slides and worksheets.
- Metadata 101: Building a solid foundation
- Controlled Vocabulary: Implementing a library of keywords to improve consistency and search-ability
- Building the Framework: Organizing your digital assets for any business
Related Resources:
Already anxious to get started? We’ve written a great piece that can give you some insider knowledge about getting your collegues on board. Jump on the DAM Bandwagon: Best Ways to Promote Your WebDAM
DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #14
Monday, September 26th, 2011A great way to be efficient is to change default settings to what works best for you and your organization so you can view your DAM the way you want.
Tip #14
Do you wish your assets were always sorted on a particular field such as file name or date uploaded? Set this preference from your Global Preferences and never have to re-sort a folder when new assets are added again.
What’s New in WebDAM: Got Links?
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011Using your WebDAM assets on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, or your company’s CMS? You’ve probably found yourself downloading from WebDAM, just to upload into another system such as the above-mentioned. We know you need to be able to do this quickly and our goal, as always, is to save you TIME! With the new “Get Links” feature, we have bridged the gap between digital asset management and your other Internet media outlets.
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DAM Mondays: Digital asset management tip #13
Monday, September 19th, 2011Stay current with all the features in your WebDAM. Follow this tip and gain some really great DAM resources…
