{"id":1766,"date":"2014-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/06\/17\/1725\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T22:00:00","slug":"1725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/06\/17\/1725\/","title":{"rendered":"David Diamond, Jeremiah Karpowicz: Fighting DAM Ignorance with Education and Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Karpowicz interviews David Diamond \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/damcoalition.com\/damcoalitionexclusive\/story\/fighting-dam-ignorance-with-education-and-cooperation\">Fighting DAM Ignorance with Education and Cooperation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the long-term benefits of DAM are so horribly obscured at the beginning, DAM always seems to have more downside than upside.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] DAM vendors like to spew best-practice advice that tells prospects to do their homework and carefully determine their needs.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Vendors tend to introduce half-baked features that don&#8217;t get the planning and UX considerations they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] I&#8217;m far more a DAM user than I am a marketing director. So rather than just deal with these situations, I become a screaming, maniacal customer-from-hell who expects it all to be fixed today, and I want a handwritten apology for my troubles too.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] What people hate about DAM is not ugly icons; people hate all the jumping around the UI they must do in order to get anything meaningful done. Nothing good will happen there until UX designers join R&amp;D teams and DAM employees start actually using their own software.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] I&#8217;m never shy about referring people to a library sciences professional.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] I see [DAM] as a metadata-managed global file system that every program can use and every service can access. When I connect to my corporate network, what I see from my Open\/Save dialog boxes is my organization&#8217;s DAM\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Must read (as usual).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Karpowicz interviews David Diamond \u2013 Fighting DAM Ignorance with Education and Cooperation: \u201cBecause the long-term benefits of DAM are so horribly obscured at the beginning, DAM always seems to have more downside than upside. [\u2026] DAM vendors like to spew best-practice advice that tells prospects to do their homework and carefully determine their needs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}