My So-Called DAM Life
For the most part it just kinda happened and I eased into this profession. I still have loads to learn and I always feel like I don’t know anything, but I think everyone feels that way. Shifting sands this profession is, everything is a moving target. So, at the request of one of my loyal readers, I will blog about the fantastical makings of this particular digital asset manager. I’ll just Insert some atmospheric Leatherface into the iPod jukebox and just start at the beginning, the very beginning. The 1990′s… My very first “real” job ever. I spend a lot of time online in the 90s, a very inappropriate amount of time. This was back in the day when AOL charged by the hour, and since I wasn’t smart enough (yet) to get AOL for free, my bills were high. So I started building websites for fun, then my friends… Read More »
Createasphere Presentation (3/02/2011): DAM Book Resources
Here is a list of the DAM resources that I listed in my Createasphere Presentation in Universal City (Los Angeles), CA, on March 2, 2011: Dont Make me Think – Steve Krug Mental Models – Indi Young Designing Interfaces – Jennifer Tidwell Building Enterprise Taxonomies – Daren L. Stewart The Accidental Taxonomist – Heather Hedden Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels – Adrienne Tannenbaum
The Analog-ists Revenge: How analog thinking can impact DAM
When I was working as an archives assistant (traditional collections processing), I had the pleasure of training under an archivist that I still admire greatly today. She understood the reality that you can’t keep everything and you certainly can’t process everything according to some unrealistic standard. In the archives profession this philosophy can be seen as the “More Product, Less Process” approach created by M. Greene and D. Meissner in 2005. Their article on the topic states unapologetically that “processing is not keeping up with acquisitions, and has not been for decades…”. This realization sparked many debates in the archival community as it was both revolutionary and challenged everything that had come before, with good reason. No longer was it acceptable to keep and process everything, things had to change. Let’s take Greene and Meissners message and apply it to the digital realm. Working in the digital realm requires the… Read More »
Another DAM Panel
I recently conducted a DAM Panel at my place of work and participated in another panel the same day for the DAM NY Meetup Group. I can’t imagine a better way to present and discuss a topic. The audience does not have to suffer through a painful PowerPoint deck and I think the audience takes so much more away from the experience. Panels are such a great way to introduce a topic as well as allowing experts to do what they do best, which is talk freely about their expertise. Therefore, I thought some of you might be interested in reading my moderator transcript and to possibly help inspire you to create a your own panel event. The questions I proposed were general as a means to stir conversation and to introduce the practice of DAM. The participants included: Henrik de Gyor, Chad Beer and Tony Gill. I would like… Read More »
