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I thought this article "Recessionary Times Call for Recessionary Marketing" by Jeff Zabin, is an important one to share. It describes the five key technologies marketing-related companies are turning toward to help overcome some of the challenges of ... [More] today's economy. Notice that Digital Asset Management/Marketing Asset Management solutions such as our own OpenEdit DAM can be a key factor in attracting, obtaining and increasing the value of profitable clients. Recessionary Times Call for Recessionary Marketing "The dismal state of the economy is causing companies everywhere to reassess their marketing budgets to ensure that they're allocating their limited marketing funds in the most productive ways possible. In many cases, this means curtailing, postponing or even eliminating previously planned marketing expenditures. In other cases, companies are actually investing more aggressively in various types of marketing programs, sensing an opportunity to capitalize on the grim economic headlines." Full Story   [Less]

Hello, I can load images with the edit asset tool and can see them in their originally format by open them with the file manager but il can't see them as thumbnails for example in the gallery althought the option "create missing thumbnails" is ... [More] checked. I get only the message "no image available". Did someone know why and if it is any property to change ? Thanks   Dominique [Less]

Ok, so this is off topic from DAM or OpenEdit BUT Axis Sivitz, one of our developers and all around great guy (that's him to your left) wrote a really cool iPhone app and we like to help out our guys outside interests once in a while! I'll tell you ... [More] about Christopher's wooden, electric car sometime soon! The iPhone app is called Clue Me In. Clue Me In brings you quick, anonymous advice and opinions. Need an idea for a gift? Want to know the latest style? Looking for new music or a funny video? Ask your question and Clue Me In will present it to another random user. Their answer will immediately be sent back to you. If you feel like spreading your keen insight to the world, go to the answers tab and answer as many questions as you like. You can purchase it here for 99¢: http://www.apptism.com/apps/clue-me-in Have fun with it! [Less]

Ok, so this is off topic from DAM or OpenEdit BUT Axis Sivitz, one of our developers and all around great guy (that's him to your left) wrote a really cool iPhone app and we like to help out our guys outside interests once in a while! I'll tell you ... [More] about Christopher's wooden, electric car sometime soon! The iPhone app is called Clue Me In. Clue Me In brings you quick, anonymous advice and opinions. Need an idea for a gift? Want to know the latest style? Looking for new music or a funny video? Ask your question and Clue Me In will present it to another random user. Their answer will immediately be sent back to you. If you feel like spreading your keen insight to the world, go to the answers tab and answer as many questions as you like. You can purchase it here for 99¢: http://www.apptism.com/apps/clue-me-in Have fun with it! [Less]

I've been following the blog posting's of Henrik de Gyor at http://anotherdamblog.wordpress.com What I like about Henrik's blog is that he posts from the perspective of a user of Digital Asset Management, not a vendor. Henrik does not promote any DAM ... [More] software in particular but his experiences can be very helpful to anyone using or thinking about using digital asset management. From time to time I'll be re-posting some of Henrik's writings here, particularly those which pertain to OpenEdit Digital Asset Management users. Here is Henrik's first post from his blog: Why do I need a DAM? Posted by Henrik de Gyor on January 10, 2009: Some organizations may have considered a DAM (Digital Asset Management) system, but thought: “We’ll do it later” or “We don’t need one of those DAM things.” In the same breath, you might as well pick any of the following phrases below: “We don’t need to save money now.” “We will be here forever so we will be able to preserve our institutional knowledge.” “We love filing cabinets full of CDs, DVDs, tapes as well as multiple external hard drives, shared drives, folder structures on our computers and other ‘organized’ methods to store and manage our files everyday. There is no other way to do this today.” “We can’t find anything in timely manner and we’re okay with that.” “We can wait until tomorrow when the other office is open with the files we need for that presentation today.” “We will continue to wait for Joe to come back from vacation and Susan to return from sick leave to retrieve files we really needed for that public release last week.” “We love employees who hoard company assets on just their computer that are so important to our business. What could possibly ever happen to their computer or them for that matter? Our employees never go anywhere.” “We love to wait hours or days for files, don’t we all?” “We like to waste time and money and so do our managers.” “We don’t need to know what files we have. Why would anyone want to know that?” “We don’t accumulate many files each year. We trash our intellectual property every few months just to clear our limited hard drive space. It’s really no big deal.” “There is no other way we can be more efficient. We each have our very own sets of standards and procedures followed sometimes. “We love paper. It’s so cheap. We like swimming in it too. What’s a PDF anyhow?” “Why would we change how we deliver stuff? Mailing stuff is really cheap and fast nowadays. We don’t even need email today.” “We can only collaborate in person or by email nowadays. What will they think of next? Tele-commuting for office workers? We would have to trust our employees.” “We have to hold all our files very close, so no one can find our files including us.” “We love re-creating files over again because we can’t find it to use it again. In fact, we’ll do it all over again next month.” We love to think inside the box. We don’t streamline anything around here. I know because I’m an innovator. We don’t need any changes here.” “Improve workflow? Our work flows just fine around here. We do not need to upgrade any software nor hardware each decade.” “Change costs money. Technology can’t save the organization time and money. We just need more people to work harder and longer hours. That’s why they are here and they know it.” None of these ridiculous phrases have to be true in any organization today. Everything listed in bold can be done with DAM. If you don’t believe any of these ‘unspoken ways of doing business’ actually happen in your organization, find out how all your files are really stored and managed every year. Be ready for a surprise. Aside from what was discussed in the last 20 points above: Can you find every file created last month or last year? What if the person looking did not create nor archive any of the files they are looking for themselves? How quickly can these files be accessed? How many files do you have? Where are these files kept? Are they archived for future use? How many files are redundant (not a backup copy nor a different version)? How can you be sure without opening each file? There is a better way. With a DAM, You can know the answer to all these questions. Planning for a DAM can make any organization really audit their assets and their workflows. A properly implemented DAM can make an organization streamlined and standardized. If a DAM is applied to an organization the right way, people can efficiently and effectively store, archive, search, find, use, reuse and repurpose assets as needed. Anyone who should be able access files can securely find out what is available at anytime from anywhere with an internet connection.   [Less]

I've been following the blog posting's of Henrik de Gyor at http://anotherdamblog.wordpress.com What I like about Henrik's blog is that he posts from the perspective of a user of Digital Asset Management, not a vendor. Henrik does not promote any DAM ... [More] software in particular but his experiences can be very helpful to anyone using or thinking about using digital asset management. From time to time I'll be re-posting some of Henrik's writings here, particularly those which pertain to OpenEdit Digital Asset Management users. Here is Henrik's first post from his blog: Why do I need a DAM? Posted by Henrik de Gyor on January 10, 2009: Some organizations may have considered a DAM (Digital Asset Management) system, but thought: “We’ll do it later” or “We don’t need one of those DAM things.” In the same breath, you might as well pick any of the following phrases below: “We don’t need to save money now.” “We will be here forever so we will be able to preserve our institutional knowledge.” “We love filing cabinets full of CDs, DVDs, tapes as well as multiple external hard drives, shared drives, folder structures on our computers and other ‘organized’ methods to store and manage our files everyday. There is no other way to do this today.” “We can’t find anything in timely manner and we’re okay with that.” “We can wait until tomorrow when the other office is open with the files we need for that presentation today.” “We will continue to wait for Joe to come back from vacation and Susan to return from sick leave to retrieve files we really needed for that public release last week.” “We love employees who hoard company assets on just their computer that are so important to our business. What could possibly ever happen to their computer or them for that matter? Our employees never go anywhere.” “We love to wait hours or days for files, don’t we all?” “We like to waste time and money and so do our managers.” “We don’t need to know what files we have. Why would anyone want to know that?” “We don’t accumulate many files each year. We trash our intellectual property every few months just to clear our limited hard drive space. It’s really no big deal.” “There is no other way we can be more efficient. We each have our very own sets of standards and procedures followed sometimes. “We love paper. It’s so cheap. We like swimming in it too. What’s a PDF anyhow?” “Why would we change how we deliver stuff? Mailing stuff is really cheap and fast nowadays. We don’t even need email today.” “We can only collaborate in person or by email nowadays. What will they think of next? Tele-commuting for office workers? We would have to trust our employees.” “We have to hold all our files very close, so no one can find our files including us.” “We love re-creating files over again because we can’t find it to use it again. In fact, we’ll do it all over again next month.” We love to think inside the box. We don’t streamline anything around here. I know because I’m an innovator. We don’t need any changes here.” “Improve workflow? Our work flows just fine around here. We do not need to upgrade any software nor hardware each decade.” “Change costs money. Technology can’t save the organization time and money. We just need more people to work harder and longer hours. That’s why they are here and they know it.” None of these ridiculous phrases have to be true in any organization today. Everything listed in bold can be done with DAM. If you don’t believe any of these ‘unspoken ways of doing business’ actually happen in your organization, find out how all your files are really stored and managed every year. Be ready for a surprise. Aside from what was discussed in the last 20 points above: Can you find every file created last month or last year? What if the person looking did not create nor archive any of the files they are looking for themselves? How quickly can these files be accessed? How many files do you have? Where are these files kept? Are they archived for future use? How many files are redundant (not a backup copy nor a different version)? How can you be sure without opening each file? There is a better way. With a DAM, You can know the answer to all these questions. Planning for a DAM can make any organization really audit their assets and their workflows. A properly implemented DAM can make an organization streamlined and standardized. If a DAM is applied to an organization the right way, people can efficiently and effectively store, archive, search, find, use, reuse and repurpose assets as needed. Anyone who should be able access files can securely find out what is available at anytime from anywhere with an internet connection.   [Less]

Recently I was interviewed by Barb Mosher of cmswire.com about the future trends of Digital Asset Management. The article follows below:     Digital Asset Management in 2009: Trends, Features and SharePoint Integration Digital Asset ... [More] Management is an important part of any organization's content management strategy. Whether it's used to support web content management or enterprise content management, the requirements for a DAM solution have gone far beyond just a solution for storing digital assets. With more and more organizations focusing on the Internet to attract, maintain and support their customers, CMSWire thought it was time to take a closer look at what is in store for digital asset management this year. And we went to some DAM providers to seek our answers. continue reading Want to learn more about open source OpenEdit for Digital Asset Management? Contact Julie Riley (that's me at the top) or visit our OpenEdit DAM website! [Less]

Recently I was interviewed by Barb Mosher of cmswire.com about the future trends of Digital Asset Management. The article follows below:     Digital Asset Management in 2009: Trends, Features and SharePoint Integration Digital Asset ... [More] Management is an important part of any organization's content management strategy. Whether it's used to support web content management or enterprise content management, the requirements for a DAM solution have gone far beyond just a solution for storing digital assets. With more and more organizations focusing on the Internet to attract, maintain and support their customers, CMSWire thought it was time to take a closer look at what is in store for digital asset management this year. And we went to some DAM providers to seek our answers. continue reading Want to learn more about open source OpenEdit for Digital Asset Management? Contact Julie Riley (that's me at the top) or visit our OpenEdit DAM website! [Less]

Julie, Ian and I have been talking about creating a new flavor of OpenEdit for photographers. The thinking is to combine a peer to peer concept like Twitter with OpenEdit DAM. People can then easily upload photos or documents for their friends or ... [More] co-workers. Administrators can then use the OpenEdit Archive to search across all the images. Ian and I created mock-up's for the new easy to use peer to peer photographer front end. It would also support PDF and other upload formats. Would like to deploy this solution to http://www.openeditdam.com to replace our existing blog. End user bug requests would then all go into the private issue tracker. Some considerations: 1. Need to create a home page for the site that shows what people are on the site currently. Note it would only show their alias until you click on their name. 2. Easy way to register for an account 3. Allow visitors to click on your name and see your home page and your friends postings that you follow. 4. Invite a friend to follow you 5. Add a image details screen where people can comment on the image. Note: that they are commenting on the image not commenting on the posting 6. Allow images to be watermarked unless the user is authorized to download. This keeps our images out of the google cache. 7. Voting and key wording of images. With some kind of top 10 images gallery for photographers. 8. The user search results would be sortable by popularity and how recently they have posted 9. We might import all the existing blog postings on openedit.org and put them in the correct peer to peer locations 10. Create a bulk upload application? Java applet, web start or Flash. 11. Ability to post photos to OpenEdit from an iPhone. see: http://www.twitpic.com Any other suggestions?   [Less]

I have a project where I have to display multiple catalogs on homepage.  I have a file at  /business/cataloglist.html and I have created /business/cataloglist.xconf as follows: <page>     <page-action ... [More] name="CartModule.loadCatalog"/>     <property name="catalogid">business</property> </page> Then I have a file at /education/cataloglist.html and I have created /education/cataloglist.xconf as follows <page>     <page-action name="CartModule.loadCatalog"/>     <property name="catalogid">education</property> </page> Then I reference them on homepage as follows: $pages.include("/business/cataloglist-index.html?categoryid=index") $pages.include("/education/cataloglist-index.html?categoryid=index") Nothing shows up but an empty page. I have been able to get multiple blogs show up on the homepage but this catalog thing is not working for me. Please help, thanking you in advance. [Less]