DAM Talk: George Knox CEO Vermosa

March 08 0 Comments Category: Uncategorized

DAM Talk  George Knox CEO @ Vermosa Enterprise Content Governance, talks to Paul Quigley.
George seeks to deliver customers with control and structure to all enterprise content in a fully automated way with the broadest and most technologically advanced range of products and professional services. His vision for the customer has helped to define a software [...]

Metacrap: When the sheet hits the fantasy

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Cory Doctorow is God. Well, by rights he should be given his insightful ’seven straw-men of the meta-utopia’ tenet.
By rights also, Doctorow should be up there with flaky luminaries like Tim Berners-Lee or the raft of other Social Media ‘Experts’ and ‘Cloud Consultant’ brigade of poseurs.
Despite the over-arching desire of organisations to mould, to [...]

DAM Talk: Yogesh Gupta CEO FatWire

November 06 0 Comments Category: Uncategorized

Paul Quigley , Editor-in-Chief spoke with the CEO of FatWire Software Yogesh Gupta about the prospects for the content market, as well as tackling the key issues around integration of content platforms and digital asset management, as well as social media and FatWire’s determination to remain agile and independent as it enters new markets, especially [...]

Backup…and running!

Ankle-deep in rain, shivering and sneezing, norovirus and Swine Flu 2.0 on the way, could it get any worse?

It could. And yet while the above external variables are all out of our direct control, there are those we have direct control over yet we neglect at our peril.

Hence a word to the wise: only this very week, after two years of stalwart service 24/7, my trusty laptop (no names, no pack drill) died due to what appeared to be a shorted out 5v pin on the USB chip – which in its death throes, greedily took all the vital data thereon down with it into Dante’s digital inferno.

Value-added taxa: from knowledge management to enterprise taxonomies

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
When the SEO behemoth Google took the wraps off its new indexing for content application ‘Index Now‘ site search, the whole sphere of enterprise taxonomy and folksonomies is conjured as the role of knowledge management and context become ever more critical to effective content management strategies. Enterprises and organisations are [...]

Competition and choice: ECM goes from strength to strength as content goes on the move

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
Whether it be proprietary enterprise, open source, MOSS SharePoint or Web 2.0 based, content management applications are becoming as diverse in platform as they are in areas of specialism. The latest addition to the ECM roster, featured in this week’s feature special, is content management’s version of SaaS – software-as-a-service, dubbed content-as-a-service, [...]

Mashed-up media: the transmogrification of content

August 28 1 Comment Category: Digital Asset Management

Posted by Paul Quigley on August 28, 2009
Once upon a time it was all so simple. Wasn’t it? Content was just, well, content. The guts of documents, files, records, stuff which had content and was worth keeping.
Now, it’s all changed. Not only has the whole ‘content is king’ thing changed beyond all recognition since the digitalisation [...]

Browser Wars II: Hero fiddles as Chrome burns?

August 28 0 Comments Category: Content Management

To those of a certain age, it hardly seems five minutes ago that Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications was waxing lyrical, like some web evangelist, on the merits of the Navigator web browser – over and above the arch-villain Mosaic-based Internet Explorer variant.

Thinking outside of the trough

Following on from our last edition where we featured digital assets, the notion of ‘toxic’ financial assets has been all over the mainstream media, highlighting the relative value of tangible and intangible assets. Apparently, many wealth management funds are trying to move client assets into gold, a safe haven during times of economic upheaval. So, while bonds and other securities take a battering, the realisation that an asset has value has shot right up the agenda to the extent that Wall Street and its creative financial engineers are scrabbling around for liquidity plumbers to unblock the pipes.

When rich media meets digital diamonds, detritus, Web 2.0 and a smattering of UGC…

Last weekend’s inaugural meeting of the Convention on Modern Liberties (www.modernliberty.net) was a resounding endorsement in the effectiveness of new social media and user-generated content, not to mention the digital asset management systems to create, store and retrieve the raft of rich media created from the single event itself.

Witnessing cameras and microphones swarming around the convention hall, being streamed live online to the web as well as narrowcast on big screens to other affiliated events around the country, was a compelling example of the potential for Web 2.0 and beyond into rich content which adds value.