Browsing articles from "September, 2010"
Sep 26, 2010

Sharing is Caring: DAM and Everyone Else

I recently attended and participated in Createasphere, great conference. The panel format was a big WIN!. Panels are so much more informative than the usual “death by deck” that gets dolled out at these events. At the end of the day I took so much more away from each talk, as it was “experts” often times speaking “off-the-cuff” and answering questions from the audience. This was the first truly “interactive” conference I have ever attended. The speakers seemed more approachable, because the audience got to see them “expose” themselves on stage, whether that was “digging-a-hole” or showing how truly passionate they are about the topic of DAM. The conference overall was one of the best “professional” conferences I have ever been to. However, we all drink the same Kool-aid (a more in-depth discussion about this drinking problem coming in a future post). The conference was incestuous. Mostly all attendees were… Read More »

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Metadata and Taxonomies are my thing. I spend an awful lot of time drinking coffee and having existential dilemmas on how to categorize what the hell I do for a living.

Nerdy things I blog about for other nerdy nerds: metadata and taxonomies, content structure governance, Digital Asset Management and Content Management (DAM/CMS), technology transitions and business change, professional development, social media privacy, and usability for information retrieval.

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