DAM Blog Assignment

In this assignment we were asked to monitor a number of blogs about DAM.  I chose to focus on the Cloud. I’m still waiting to hear more funny titles though as I read my way around the blogosphere.  Here are a few of mine: Storm clouds ahead? Are we ready for life in the cloud?  Here’s another: Cloudy with a chance of a new storage model?

Okay, on to real reviews about real articles on the CLOUD:

DAM-IT the Blog focuses on the company’s own integrated system, (webDAM), but gives good advice in their blog for getting the most out of your system and also understanding DAM a bit better. Their article: Integration in the Cloud: Finding Smarter Ways to do Business meshes their own tools with best practices in the cloud. Their SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution is cloud based and the article talks about why it’s great: Ease-of-use, Customer Focus, Robust Functionality, Extend functionality, Connect complementary solutions, and Customize an application. That sounds pretty good to me, I’ll have to email them for their pricing structure, might be a lot!

http://www.webdamsolutions.com/digital-asset-management/integration-and-the-cloud/

Another interesting article was a recent post on DAMNews about Amazon and the Cloud, and its search capabilities. This one talks about Amazon’s search functions in their cloud based computing and how they might be aggressively taking over the cloud. The point  seems to be that in a few years there might (will most probably), be newer better services so why not focus now on the best and most cost affective in the short term and worry about the future, well you know, in the future. This does make sense to me, but I do worry about a handful of companies controlling the whole cloud.

http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/cloud-computing/amazon-announce-cloudsearch/

I found this article on the DAM Foundation website interesting as well.  It takes the perspective of a CEO into account, and why he or she would want the Cloud included in their business module.  The Implications that it could radically change how a company does business especially on the corporate level is interesting indeed.  Is this business module so radical that it could permanently change corporate structure? This does sound far reaching to me, but after reading the article, I can see where a CEO would be looking at a uniquely different business strategy. I suppose I had not taken into account all the ways that cloud computing could change the way the world does business. Who will ultimately have control of the cloud or clouds? Will it be the companies as whole entities, or will the cloud providers have a bigger stake in those said companies than originally thought or expected? Hmm, time will tell.

http://damfoundation.org/2012/04/cloud-a-trend-an-opportunity-or-a-must/

My powerpoint on Reference

The Reference Librarian

My powerpoint from 2009 on Facebook

200-12-SoCal-FB

Read all about me!

I was interviewed by Kate Tasker for an article for Portraits of SLIS Students and Alumni on my School’s blog site!

Enjoy

http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/meet/?p=2108

CLA in Pasadena

So today I will go to the Huntington and later on, meet my class to hear some speakers and prepare for the official conference which really starts tomorrow.  If this is anything like the Internet Librarian conference I attended back in October, I’ll be changing my mind on the fly about what to attend and when. If I can just figure out what to wear, I’ll be in great shape.  I never quite know what I should be wearing, though I’ll probably feel it’s the wrong thing (I have a tendency to overdress), but I’m going to try my best to fit in.  I am sure I’ll be wearing a hat. More tonight after the meeting…

Networking is fun

I will be traveling this fall to two different library conferences!  One is the Internet Librarian in Monterey, Ca, and the other is the CLA-CSLA Annual Conference in Pasadena CA.

I hope to send out daily blog posts from both.

Brand Z

When I think about what my personal brand is, I get caught up in the name “Brand”.  In real life I am a wearer of many hats; I literally own about 40-50 if I had to count.  So when I think about that in terms of job skills, it’s funny to me, because I do tend to wear different hats for different jobs.  I made a list for class of some of my many skills, and I came up with an A-Z  list.  Everything is true except for Zen Master.  Although I am usually trying to achieve some state of Zen.  I couldn’t think of a good Z job I have accomplished.

So here’s my list:

Animation Artist,Archivist,Award Winner,Background Artist,Barista,Blogger,Chiron Operator,Citizen,Clothing Designer,Co-Chair,Color Key Artist,Comedian,Coordinator,Crafter,Decorator,Designer,Digital Effects Artist,E-Bayer,Engineer,Event Planning,Fine Artist,Gardner,Game-Show Asst.,Grant Writer,Home Improvement,Improv Actor,Intern,Janitor,Key Holder,Librarian,Manager,Mentor,Mother,Needle-pointer,Organizer,Painter,Planner,Programmer,Quark Artist,Reader,Researcher,Restoration Artist,Roto Artist,Seamstress,Small Business Owner,Student,Stylist,Taste-maker,Tutor,Underwriter,Voice-Over Artist,Volunteer,Web Designer,Xeriscapist,Yoga Practitioner,Zen Master.

Since creating this list a few weeks ago, I can now add Nit Picker, Mocha Artist, Nuke Trainee,Magician, and Ex-wife.

To say that my life has swung in many different directions would be an understatement, but art and creativity have always been at its core,  (humor too), and whatever form that will take now, perhaps as an archivist, or art related library position, I’m excited for the challenge and opportunity.