One thing many people do not think about enough is whether something will scale (up, out, in and/or down) as needed. Scalability is critical for any organization to consider if they plan to grow and thrive, not just survive. Otherwise, staying with decisions made in the short term will affect the organization rapidly in the long term.

Recently, some people asked me to look into software integrators because they were having issues with their present one. Sadly, this is far too common. A client saw the integrator present at a conference. They had a good relations with their preferred vendor. Integration and implementation of a solution like Digital Asset Management (DAM) was [...]

After six meetups in three years, DAM DC meetup is officially closing the week of this blog post.

We asked repeatedly DAM DC members on whether they wanted to attend, host, participate, present or suggest DAM DC meetup gatherings. Very few responses came back.

It took about year to set up and reschedule the DAM DC meetup at Discovery. Some believed it was a matter of people unable to follow up or top this venue. This was a competition. It was ...

Earley and Associates is providing a webinar series on “Get Dynamic with Digital Assets.”  A wide-range of speakers will address challenges of managing content for changing contexts and multiple delivery channels.   This series should be a great interest to anyone tracking tools and methodologies that allow relevant content to be identified and managed from creation to access.  Register for this event athttp://tinyurl.com/72xrt89

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After a very successful and interesting DAM DC Meetup at Discovery in January 2012, we are scheduling three separate DAM DC Meetups at the beginning, middle and end of March 2012.

We will have a DAM DC Meetups in:

• Washington DC on March 1, 2012
• Virginia on March 15, 2012
• Maryland on March 29, 2012

Details, times and locations are all on the DAM DC Meetup website which requires free membership and your RSVP per event, if you ...