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What higher education courses are available about DAM?

Since my last post about DAM career planning, a whole host of higher education courses popped up on my radar.  The courses found, researched and listed are located in the US, UK and even China. There were plenty of higher education courses offered which mention DAM within their syllabus, but these courses listed below are focused on DAM.

Since 2003, Rochester Institute of Technology (New York, USA) offers a DAM course three times per year.

Since 2006, San Jose State University (California, USA) offers a graduate elective course on DAM.

Since 2007, Simmons College (Massachusetts, USA) offers a DAM course as an elective to a graduate program.

Since 2008, Zhejiang University (Zhejiang, China) offers an undergraduate course on DAM.

As of January 2010, Columbia University (New York, USA) offers a continuing education course all  about DAM.

As of March 2010, Birmingham City University (Birmingham, UK) offers a module in Media Asset Management (MAM) as part of a certificate program.

As of September 2010, King’s College London (London, UK) offers the first Master’s degree program about DAM (MADAM).

There may be other higher education courses specifically about DAM offered elsewhere which I would love to hear about and I am sure the readers would too.

Special thanks to all the DAM professionals, professors and administrators who helped me compile this list.


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What is a DAM webinar?

Webinars are a form of web conferencing used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet. Every month, there are plenty of webinars offered in a variety of topics including Digital Asset Management (DAM).

Often, webinars are offered free of charge in order to inform people who join to watch. Typically, the webinars are open to questions via built-in text messaging during the session and the questions are addressed verbally at the end.

A free 4-part webinar series dedicated to optimizing Digital Asset Management processes and technologies is being offered. It is called Digital Asset Management Jumpstart (2010).

I am one of the speakers discussing Practical Asset Reuse – The Role of Taxonomy and Metadata on January 28, 2010.

In the interest of full disclosure, webinars are often sponsored, but I volunteer my time as a speaker. I do not get paid to speak/present and I do not accept money from any vendors since I remain vendor agnostic, so I do not endorse any specific DAM vendor. I do list events I attend/present under my events tab on the right side of my blog.

Registering for webinars is quite common and the organizers often send you an online calendar invite to remind you of the webinar after your registration is complete. I listen, watch and/or present webinars weekly.

On the day of the webinar, you should:

  • Login a few minutes before the start time (check for your local start time based on your time zone)
  • Listen to speakers
  • Watch a series of slides to illustrate the speakers’ points
  • Ask questions during the session via built-in text messaging window provided. Questions are often addressed verbally at the end of the webinar.

To listen and watch a webinar, all you usually need is

  1. Time (often 1 to 2 hours)
  2. A fast, reliable internet connection
  3. A computer with audio output (headphones or load speaker).

No travel required to attend any webinar regardless of your location nor the presenters’ location. Some webinars are recorded for future viewing in case you miss them or find them later on. Some DAM vendors as well as third party vendors offer webinars on a regular basis.

Webinars do offer:

  • Knowledge enrichment (or knowledge reinforcement)
  • Good learning and research opportunities
  • Sometimes different perspectives
  • Contact information to speakers

Do you watch and listen to webinars?


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Another DAM blog’s 1st year anniversary

Yes, it is true. Another DAM blog is officially one year old with posts year round (just look at the archive). It all started with an idea about sharing experiences and knowledge about DAM. And DAM is all about sharing…assets.

I knew I was doing something right when after my second blog post I was asked to guest blog about DAM. I am very happy to report that the interest in my blog is still growing strong. I want to thank all the readers for your continued support. Please keep your comments and questions coming. And I will:

  • remain vendor agnostic
  • keep writing posts (yes, I write these all myself)
  • continue to blog about DAM in the user and administrator perspective
  • continue to give presentations
  • continue mentoring

And there are a lot more exciting projects coming this year.

Thank you.

Henrik