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Createasphere DAM New York Conference 2011

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on September 8, 2011

Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference in New York City is September 21, 22 and 23, 2011 at the New Yorker Hotel. Among the events during these three days are many presentations, panel discussions and seminars including:

Understanding the Connection of Digital Assets with Metadata: Filtering Data into Information into Knowledge
Reflecting on the Knowledge Pyramid, once we realize the amount of data there is available, and filter it to select the information we need as metadata, we learn how this data can help use assets with other content in the proper context. Hear how our panel of experts tackle best practices for metadata that empowers your organization.

This will be with the following panelists:

Moderated by the author of this blog.

The second annual DAMMY Awards will be held during a luncheon on September 23, 2011. Who do you think will win this year? Find out at the luncheon.

If you want to save 20% off registration and seminars for this conference, use the promo code DAMBLOG

Also, there is New York Digital Asset Managers Meetup on September 21 , 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Visit the site for full details and RSVP.

I hope to see you in New York City in late September 2011.

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First year anniversary of Another DAM podcast

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on September 1, 2011

Today, Another DAM podcast is one year old. Another DAM podcast is a weekly podcast series about Digital Asset Management.

Creating 60 audio podcasts in the first year, this includes:

With this, content still rules in blogs and podcasts alike. Don’t just take my word for it. Listen to what other users, administrators and professionals have to say about Digital Asset Management. That was one of the goals of Another DAM podcast series.  Making sure they have a voice that is heard by anyone interested in Digital Asset Management. And it still is. Hear what they have to say every week.

Special Thanks to everyone who was interviewed on Another DAM podcast and everyone who made these podcasts possible, including:

And many more to come. Every Thursday.

Sign up for the email subscription to get notified of every new podcast via email.

Are you listening to Another DAM podcast?

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First book drawing on Another DAM podcast

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on August 9, 2011

During Another DAM podcast interview with Ulla de Stricker, we discussed the new book “The Information and Knowledge Professional’s Career Handbook“, co-authored by Jill Hurst-Wahl and Ulla de Stricker.

Several authors have been interviewed on Another DAM podcast which you can listen to.

Thanks to the publisher, we will have a drawing for one copy of this book. The one winner of this drawing will receive one free copy of “The Information and Knowledge Professional’s Career Handbook” co-authored by Jill Hurst-Wahl and Ulla de Stricker.

Enter this book drawing by simply subscribing by email to both Another DAM podcast and Another DAM blog on each of these websites before August 31, 2011. Enter your email address at the top left underneath where is says ‘Follow Blog’.

The winner will be picked from the pool of email subscribers of both Another DAM podcast and Another DAM blog. The drawing will occur on the first week of September 2011 with a third party drawing the name of the winner. The winner will be announced on Another DAM podcast and Another DAM blog. If you are already an email subscribers to both Another DAM podcast and Another DAM blog, you are automatically entered in this book drawing. The winner will be contacted directly by email for their contact details to ship the book. The book will be shipped directly from the publisher to the winner.

Have you entered the book drawing?

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What is your DAM title?

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on July 14, 2011

While seemingly more unimportant nowadays, business titles within an organization can sometimes explain a person’s functional role, authority, seniority and/or pay grade.

I have blogged about a variety of DAM titles used within the Digital Asset Management field, like Digital Asset Specialist (DAS), Digital Asset Management Manager (DAMMmmmm), DAM Director (DAMD), DAM VP or the title I have at this time… Digital Asset Manager.

I hosted a podcast where I interviewed someone who has a DAM title that will catch people’s attention.  Instead of calling himself Digital Asset Manager, he was creative enough to come up with Darth Lord of the DAM and includes this on his business card.

Better than some other business cards I have heard of.

It sounds better than DAM lord. That is similar to another movie I saw. And he likely prefers it his way. No helmet required.

If you work in the field of Digital Asset Management, what is your DAM title?

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London DAM meetup group started

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on July 4, 2011

Thanks to the efforts of Michelle Jouan as mentioned during Henry Stewart’s DAM Europe conference in June 2011, she is taking the initiative to start a digital asset management meetup group in London called London DAM. Michelle hopes for the group to be an informal forum for digital asset managers and others interested in the topic to get together to share ideas and experiences.

If interested in Digital Asset Management in London, you can join the London DAM group on Meetup.com and follow them on Twitter

Michelle is seeking a co-conspirator to run the group. If you are based in London (yes, in the UK) and would like to help run the Meetup.com site and the Twitter feed, find venues and schedule dates, please get in touch with her directly. She is a Digital Asset Management professional and a member of a few of Linkedin groups on Digital Asset Management as well.

This the first meetup group focused on Digital Asset Management outside of the United States. I believe there will be more in the world coming later on this year.

The United States currently has the following DAM meetup groups:

  1. NYC Digital Asset Managers (The world’s largest and the most active
    DAM meetup group, started by Chad Beer and Michael Hollitscher)
  2. Socal DAM (Started by Lilly Taktakian and Roger Howard)
  3. DAM DC (Started by the author of this blog and David Lipsey)
Do you have a DAM meetup group near you? Have you joined a DAM meetup group before attending a DAM conference in that area?

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What is the DAM Foundation?

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on June 10, 2011

The founders of  http://digitalassetmanagement.org.uk started an organic group on Linkedin called the DAM Foundation. The idea behind the DAM Foundation is “bringing standards and best practice to digital asset management.”

The DAM Foundation will be an organic process. The members will help create the standards and best practice and vote in the appropriate professionals to organize the strategy and leadership.

They will tackle questions like:

  • “What is DAM?” At the time of this post, I dare you to ask 20 people (even DAM professionals) and see if you get the same definition from all of them (not likely)
  • What elements make DAM what it is?
  • How do you identify a DAM versus an imposter calling something a DAM when it is not?

Joining the DAM Foundation is easy:

  1. Sign up on Linkedin (you can join for free)
  2. Search Groups for DAM Foundation
  3. Request to join the DAM Foundation Group on Linkedin (free)
  4. Join the discussions

There will probably be an election to vote in whom you want to represent DAM and help set some industry standards in this growing field. The first president of the DAM Foundation is David Lipsey. Two DAM conferences have hosted the DAM Foundation to help progress in person.

I have have volunteered to help and I would ask anyone who is involved in DAM to sign up and join. Membership is free.

What is in it for you if you join the DAM Foundation?

There will be scheduled meetings, some in person and many online. Regardless of geographic location, you will be invited as a member to join a live online group meeting to discuss pre-selected topics as well as your questions. This will help get real time answers to pressing questions and bring these topics to light, as well as continue them offline in the blogosphere. Join and find out the details by invitation.

Why should you join the discussions on the DAM Foundation? We all have valid DAM questions to ask which deserve an unbiased answer. Whether you can provide that answer or just the question does not matter.

Even a beginner in DAM has questions worth answering which are often commonly asked questions among many DAM beginners. So why try to reinvent the wheel or guess? Gain from the knowledge base which is being built here and start asking what is on your mind about Digital Asset Management. Chances are someone has gone down that road before and found out where it leads. Learn from them.

For more information, go to their website.

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What does context have to do with DAM?

Posted by Henrik de Gyor on June 2, 2011

For the readers who have read my blog before, they have seen my writings on quite a few topics about Digital Asset Management (DAM). I mention Digital Asset Management in every place I can think of to reference with the acronym DAM.

Then, there are some people who have not read my blog…ok, maybe skimmed it…but did see the word DAM next to my name.

Recently, I was invited (by email) to present at an upcoming conference type event in [unnamed foreign country] to talk about DAM…to discuss hydropower,hydroelectricity and sustainable energy.

(sigh)

That is not my field of expertise. I talk about DAM, not DAM. Oh, wait. We need some context to clarify this now, do we not?

I will not be attending that particular conference. I respectfully declined the invitation. I also shared some context about DAM (Digital Asset Management) as I do regularly with my insights found on this blog, the weekly podcast series, the eBook and during the Digital Asset Management conferences.

DAM is green. Uh, not unless you configured the User Interface (UI) to be that color. Servers drain power (like a colander drains water) and servers need to be cooled to the Nth degree (also not too energy efficient unless the servers are located in some frozen region). You may have a DAM (Digital Asset Management) system powered by a DAM (the one with the reservoir, lake or river behind it), but not likely in too many areas.

DAM. No, I am not cursing nor swearing. Yet, I know a few people who manage a DAM for some churches. They can say DAM out loud. It is simply an acronym in the field of Digital Asset Management.  I have heard some people prefer saying “DAMS” or spelling out D. A.M.

That is not as fun.

Often, the user assigns context to the DAM assets when they use an asset.

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