Last week we've released a new feature External Links. It allows you to add links as assets to your DAM, so that you can tag, preview, and search through them like any other asset. In this thread, I will show you one of its exciting use cases 🧵
(2/11) When you have a long-running blog, images will depreciate with time. Maybe your product's design got changed or licensing for stock images expired. This happened to us when we changed the look of our Roles & Permissions management screen.
(3/11) The issue is that it's difficult to track all articles where the image is used. We have over 250 articles with 2 images in each one. With it, I can add links to my blog posts directly to my DAM.
(4/11) But it isn't "just a link" that gets added. Pics.io also creates an interactable preview of the content through the link and it treats it as an asset. So you can tag it with keywords, search by content, and do everything else you can do with an asset.
(5/11) Pics.io also automatically picks up any metadata through the link it can. So for our blog post, it picked up its meta title and description. If you add a link to a YouTube video, for example, it would pick video's title, description, and also its keywords!
(6/11) Once I upload a link to my blog, I can link it with as many other assets as I need. In this example, I will link it together with the UI screenshot and all other articles where I use that image.
(7/11) That way, whenever I or somebody else from my team notices an outdated piece of content, we can send out a notification to the person responsible...
(8/11) ...and instead of scouring through the entire blog or taking guesses where I would have this image, I can just check the linked assets, upload a new version as a revision in DAM, and then just go directly to blog articles to do any changes I need.
(9/11) This is just one use case that we're going to highlight in the upcoming weeks, so stick around for more! You can use external links in any scenario where uploading an asset directly to DAM is impossible/suboptimal. Stuff like HD videos, Figma Files, or Confluence docs!
(10/11) We've also written an expanded article on today's use case and the importance of keeping your blog visuals up-to-date: bit.ly/3EY0nWU
If you'd like to learn more about External Links, feel free to visit our new landing page: pics.io/external-links
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