Research and Monitoring Digital Asset Management

How Games Help Students Embrace Failure

by Justin Marquis Ph.D. FOLLOW JUSTIN We live in a society where academic failure is not an option. The statistics bear out that the more successful you

The evolution of the chief customer officer — and 3 reasons you don’t need one, yet

By Neil Parker is VP of product marketing at Vision Critical. “The Chief Customer Officer is a powerful asset that can help resolve chronic customer

The New Kingmakers are a rising force in marketing too

BY SCOTT BRINKER In a world powered by software, the developers who create that software — especially the really good ones — are increasingly the center of

Yes, “Transmedia” is an Empty Buzzword… Until it Isn’t

By Jim Stewartson Friends, it’s time to get serious. The ongoing debate between (intelligent, well-meaning) people about what “transmedia” means and even

From Touchpoints to Trust Points™

By Larry Levy Marketing has changed. Over the past couple of decades, new forms of messaging, new message delivery vehicles, and indeed, new types of

Customer Experience is the Only Competitive Advantage Left

By Sam Fiorella What does it take to be competitive today? I see dozens of articles and books each week that claim to have the answer. Is it becoming a

Why You Must Add Visual Content to the Mix

Look around these days and you’ll find it’s hard to miss the growth of sites and services that rely on the more visual aspect of our senses growing

Designing Better Experiences Through Data

by Jason Napolitano Access to big data is growing at an incredible pace. With increased information from various sources available on smartphone

What is the true value of a digital asset?

By Mark Davey For years people who do not really understand the value of metadata correctly assigned to assets have bemoaned the extra time it takes to

WARNING: DAM ways to ROI, so many DAM ways to ROI!

by Mark Davey WARNING: Dear reader I would like to warn you, if you continue to read this bit of Friday fun a meme will be placed inside your head and you

Why retargeting is fundamentally broken

By Dax Hamman Site retargeting is the most common use of real-time media today, and many marketers consider it the most effective tactic in their media

Why Did the Marketer Climb the Mountain?

By Sam Fiorella Why did the man climb the mountain? Because it was there! Um, marketers, this is a joke…not a new marketing strategy! Developing social

DAM News

Metadata Collection Strategies

By Maish Nichani This article was co-authored with Patrick Lambe of Straits Knowledge and Green Chameleon. Metadata is defined as “data about
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The Rising Value Of Brands In The Digital Age

Many believe that brands will become less important as digital technology marches onward. They will surely be disappointed. In fact, it is likely that
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Yes, “Transmedia” is an Empty Buzzword… Until it Isn’t

By Jim Stewartson Friends, it’s time to get serious. The ongoing debate between (intelligent, well-meaning) people about what “transmedia” means and even
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DAM New York 2013 May 2 & 3, New York

Join your peers at DAM New York 2013! With over 400 attendees anticipated, now is the time to confirm your place at the industry’s leading event. We have a
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DAM Useful

  • DAM Vendors Directory

    The directory is a guide to help you drill down into the specifics of vendor types and technology

  • DAM Maturity Model

    Maturity Model Enables Audit, Improvement of Digital Asset Management Capabilities

Charter Members

Cloud Computing News

The New Kingmakers are a rising force in marketing too

BY SCOTT BRINKER In a world powered by software, the developers who create that software — especially the really good ones — are increasingly the center of
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Connecting Things to the Internet Does Not an Internet of Things Make

The Internet of Things has continued to emerge as a trend this year within the consumer electronics sector. Everyone’s trying to get into the game, with
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Why Are Innovative CIO’s Betting Less On Cloud And Virtualization?

by R “Ray” Wang Innovative CIO’s Betting On Disruptive Technologies That Impact Enterprise Business Value In the Four Personas of the Next Gen
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Trends: Seven Priorities In The Shift From CMO to Chief Digital Officer

By R “Ray” Wang Shift From CMO to CDO Is In Progress Today’s marketing strategies increasingly depend more on digital and on data than in the
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Big Data News

The Three Transformations of IT

by David Hill Information technology is now in its third transformation. The first was the digitization of business. The second is the continuing
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How Bracelets & Intuition Offer 3 Keys To Using Big Data Successfully

Imagine if Buzz Lightyear walked up to you and wished you Happy Birthday at a Disney Park. Or if a smart app could predict when you might be hungry based
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Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources

By: Zach Gemignan From Edward Tufte’s Visual Explanations, a diagram based on Salman Rushdie‘s description of the Indian epid Kathasaritsagara or Ocean of
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Big Data, and its implications on Big Marketing, remains a mystery for many

Big Data: key takeaways from Digital Cream London 2013 by Jon Baron Whilst the discussion was ripe with technical tongue twisters, the overall message was
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What is the DAM Foundation

How mature is your business model?

The DAM Maturity Model (DAM-MM) uses 15 dimensions organised into four categories to define the digital asset management ecosystem: People – The human roles, responsibilities, and inter relationships in an organisation’s use and management ofDAM Information – The material and related descriptorsthat enable the use of an asset Systems – The related components that work together to facilitate the lifecycle of assets Processes – The repeatable set of procedures and operations designed to realise each stage of an asset’s lifecycle Focus Areas and Dimensions

DAM Foundation Board

Content Marketing News

Influence marketing: What’s next?

One of the things I took away from the recent SXSW conference is the frenzied search going on to find new ground for our marketing messages. The media
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The New Kingmakers are a rising force in marketing too

BY SCOTT BRINKER In a world powered by software, the developers who create that software — especially the really good ones — are increasingly the center of
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Yes, “Transmedia” is an Empty Buzzword… Until it Isn’t

By Jim Stewartson Friends, it’s time to get serious. The ongoing debate between (intelligent, well-meaning) people about what “transmedia” means and even
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Persuade with Visual Metaphors

While we think of metaphors as mainly word-based, visual metaphors can be a potent selling tool. They can both engage the brain like text metaphors and
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Metadata

Metadata Collection Strategies

By Maish Nichani This article was co-authored with Patrick Lambe of Straits Knowledge and Green Chameleon. Metadata is defined as “data about
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The metadata conservation movement

By Tim Cole When we talk about DAM systems, we emphasize the importance and value of assigning and preserving metadata to digital assets. Organizations and
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What is the true value of a digital asset?

By Mark Davey For years people who do not really understand the value of metadata correctly assigned to assets have bemoaned the extra time it takes to
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What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM

Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects, incompatible with the W3C’s most important policies Adding DRM to the HTML standard
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Social Networks

The metadata conservation movement

By Tim Cole When we talk about DAM systems, we emphasize the importance and value of assigning and preserving metadata to digital assets. Organizations and individuals can expend a lot of time and effort populating metadata fields in order to increase the value of their assets
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Customer Experience is the Only Competitive Advantage Left

By Sam Fiorella What does it take to be competitive today? I see dozens of articles and books each week that claim to have the answer. Is it becoming a social business, selling your product online, or offering the lowest price? The Global Leaders of Customer Experience Management
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4 Truths About Content Marketing Clients

By DOUG KESSLER Joe Pulizzi recently wrote a blog post, 4 Truths About Content Marketing Agencies, that gave us agency types a good kicking. Of course, Joe is right: Many “content marketing agencies” are just old-school marketing agencies with a shiny new label. And, tellingly,
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The Five Rs of Content Curation

Why do I constantly update my RSS feed reader? Adding categories, fine tuning reading lists, then upsetting them all over again when I stumble upon several great sites. That’s because I rely on information discovery to push my own thinking. The more I broaden and diversify
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