Podcast Interviews With Experts
Our new episodes drop every Monday. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see where we’ve been guests on other shows.
The Practical DAM Podcast is a series of interviews with experts about topics in the textbook. Each interview roughly correlates with a chapter of the book, but because we think the more people talk about their work in the field, the more we all learn, we do tend to get off topic and into things like vendor relationships, contract negotiations, and the realities of contract DAM work. Click on the links below for a full discussion with the authors and another DAM expert. Scroll down the page to see a list of other podcasts where the authors talk about DAM.
In addition to starting the very first DAM podcast ever almost twenty years ago, Henrik wrote introductions to E’s first two textbooks. Lisa asks Henrik about what has changed, and what has stayed the same as we go over what is, and isn’t a Digital Asset Management system nowadays.
Seema Caron works in the San Francisco area as the Founder and principal consultant for Info Alchemy, and has seen it all working for clients launching new DAMs. Seema, Lisa, and E talk about the realities of leaving corporate DAM gigs behind for the contract worker life, and how we can all support each other while furthering our careers.
When Ralph wasn’t busy co-founding DAM News, the primary industry news source for Digital Asset Managers, he was busy watching the evolution of the field from the inside. In this episode, we talk about the changing vendor landscape and why you should be keeping up with https://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/ .
E has worked with M. K., Lisa has worked with them both, but the three experts on this episode have never all collaborated at the same time! In this episode, we get into the great movement to get all DAM hosting into the cloud - and why that era may be ending for a while. The three of us have feelings about putting your server in a closet.
Allison King helps librarians find jobs outside the traditional library setting, often as Digital Asset Managers. In this episode, we talk about how our field has a lot of work available, but few jobs, and how vocational awe can cause librarians to undervalue the skills they’ve learned on the job.
Eric Reber has cataloged every sort of asset in every sort of DAM, from major news video archives to historic children’s clothing. In this episode, Eric, Elizabeth and Lisa finally go there to talk about the big corporate system no one with a career in DAM can avoid, and we dish on realistic deadlines for first time system launch.
Meg Morrissey, Lisa, and Elizabeth talk about how a business needs to think holistically about the information life cycle to make a DAM usable. Find out what can be done when that doesn’t happen to make a DAM usable by listening to this episode.
When Clemency Wright started her consultancy, she called it Make Search Better to cut right to what she does best. Lisa, E, and Clemency talk about the three types of metadata and how to bridge the gap between how Librarians, IT workers, and MBAs discuss systems and search.
Fred Rascoe joins E and Lisa to talk about how to measure the use and usability of a collection, and why tying attention to spend is so important. The set up of metrics is discussed, as well as using numbers to investigate licensed content for real use, not just false search hits.
Celine Mellinder knows more about creating workflows in DAM than just about anyone else. When you look at successful applications of all the tools in a DAM, often you’re going to end up talking about Europe. And when you talk about DAMs in Europe, you can’t fail to mention Celine’s work.
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Other Podcast Features
Lisa and Elizabeth are scheduled to appear on a few other podcasts as guests. When those podcasts publish, we link them below.
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Lost in the Stacks Episode 263
In this long-running radio show hosted on the Georgia Tech campus, Charlie Bennett and Fred Rascoe talk to information professionals around a college radio rock playlist. Marlee Givens joins as a guide to the topic for those new to Digital Asset Management. Original air date: August 21st, 2026.
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