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Have you ever experienced that: You are building a website and then the client sends over new images. You get a folder and some seconds later you find yourself downloading and uploading images. Not so exciting, right?

On the 24th of May, Andreas Michalski, Founder and CEO of CI HUB, and Gerd Glaser, Head of Customer Success hosted a very informative HSEvents webinar.

On the 29th of March, Andreas Michalski, CEO at CI HUB and Michael Kraeftner, Founder & CEO, Head of Product Vision at CELUM hosted a very interesting HSEvents webinar, titled “Wowing Your Audience with a Perfectly Integrated Content Supply Chain”.

WordPress 6.2 ist schon bald da, geplant ist der Release für den 28. März. Mit WordPress 6.2 kommt noch einmal eine geballte Ladung Full Site Editing. Was genau neu ist, zeige ich dir in diesem Video.

Etwas mehr als ein Drittel aller Websites wurden mit WordPress gebaut. Aber warum eigentlich? Was unterscheidet WordPress so krass von allen anderen CMS? Dieser Frage bin ich in diesem Video nachgegangen.

On the 21st of February, Andreas Michalski, CEO at CI HUB and Gerd Glaser, Head of Customer Success along with Elliot Sedegah, Director, Strategy & Product Marketing at Adobe hosted a very interesting Henry Stewart Webinar, titled “Leveraging the Power of AEM Assets within your Corporate Applications – Office 365, Google Workspace, SharePoint, and many more”.

Gutenberg, der Editor von WordPress, hat seit seiner Einführung 2018 grosse Fortschritte gemacht. Nach dem State of the Word 2022 wurde klar; Bald startet das Gutenberg-Projekt in die nächste Phase. Aber was heisst das genau? Das erkläre ich dir in diesem Video. Es geht unter anderem um tolle Updates für Publisher, Blogger und Teams!

One access to your digital asset ecosystem:
CI HUB is the world's leading provider of in-app connectivity software. Manage and use content from source systems like DAM, PIM, cloud storage, stock provider, and work management systems within your favorite apps.

The CI HUB Connector is available for apps from Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office 365, and Google Workspace, as well as for WordPress, SharePoint, Figma, or Sketch, and it allows multiple simultaneous connections.

Whether you work in the creative department, planning, sales, documentation, or digital rights management – you access verified and compliant content in real-time.

Accessing source systems via a web browser was done yesterday. Accessing content and tasks within applications is the new way to work.

Christmas is just around the corner and we really hope you can finally enjoy the free time you’ve saved by using the CI HUB Connector! CI HUB is getting ready for the most wonderful time of the year and before 2023 arrives we would like to reflect on the year that has passed.

On the 14th of December 2022, Andreas Michalski, CEO at CI HUB, along with a panel of selected experts had a lively discussion on probably the most important Henry Stewart Webinar of the year, titled “Looking ahead to 2023 – DAM, Workflow & Future Innovation”. The topics discussed were around matters related to

Wer ein WordPress-Plugin sucht, hat oft ein Problem: Zu viel Auswahl! Dabei ist es ganz leicht, gute WordPress-Plugins zu finden. Mit diesen 4 Indikatoren wird's ganz einfach. 

On the 29th and 30th of November, Activo launched the second version of the first OnDAM conference in Paris where CI HUB had the honor to be a platinum sponsor.

Am Dienstag, 1. November, kommt WordPress 6.1 raus. In diesem Video zeige ich dir, was dich erwartet mit dem Update. Die Updates umfassen unter anderem das neue Theme «Twenty Twenty-Three», neue Design-Möglichkeiten in Gutenberg, dort aber auch Anpassungen im User Interface. Auch im Bereich Full Site Editing gibt es neue Features, zum Beispiel Templates für Nicht-Block-Themes!

Have you ever caught yourself searching for images available to fit into your PowerPoint presentations for endless hours, wasting your time and money? If your answer is yes then you will love the PRO extension of the CI HUB Connector which just launched.

"How to Effectively Manage Your Creative Ecosystem" by CI HUB. The VoD Session for Adobe MAX 2022 was presented by Andreas Michalski, CEO and Gerd Glaser, Head of Customer Success at CI HUB GmbH.

CI HUB went above and beyond at Adobe MAX 2022 as we had the honor to be a gold sponsor of the most pivotal conferences for all creatives. This year, the event took place in Los Angeles with more than 7,500 people attending in person and 264,000 virtually. So here’s a closer look at what happened in the City of Angels.

Do you want to get rid of these annoying missing links in your Adobe Premiere Projects? Just install the CI HUB Connector from the Adobe Exchange Store and watch this video by Gerd Glaser, Head of Customer Success at CI HUB GmbH, on how to proceed.

Andreas Michalski, CEO of CI HUB GmbH is talking about CI HUBS' Platinum Sponsorship for the OnDAM Paris 2022.

Am 14. September 2022 veranstaltete apollon, führender Software-Anbieter für Marketing-Automatisierung und Produktdaten-Kommunikation, zum zehnten Mal das hauseigene Event rund um Marketing und E-Commerce. Vertreter aus Firmen, Agenturen und Beratungsunternehmen konnten sich exklusiv zum Thema Customer Experience austauschen.
Besonders im Fokus stand die gesamtheitliche Betrachtung der Customer Experience.

Neulich hat Elementor die Beta Version 3.8 veröffentlicht. Die zwei grössten Neuerungen solltest du dir unbedingt ansehen: den Loop Builder und auch die Flexbox Container. Schau rein!

Did you know you can work with your Digital Asset Management System in 17 Applications by integrating the CI HUB Connector into your workflow?

Are you looking for an easy yet effective way to collaborate with your team right in any Creative Cloud application? If so, the CI HUB session at Adobe MAX 2022 is the place for you.

This video shows the “properly executed” DAM Bake Off Use-Case from Andreas Michalski, CEO at CI HUB. The original session took place in New York during the DAM New York 2022 Event.

In September 2022, Andreas Michalski, CEO of CI HUB along with CCO, Jörg Seidler & Nick Stein, Partnership Marketing Manager, traveled to the City that never sleeps, New York for some very special reasons.

Exclusive Sales Club Dinner in New York
More specifically, CI HUB hosted an exclusive dinner for respected partners from Censhare, Mediagraph, Acquia, Sitecore, FADEL, Avyre, CELUM, Marketing Automation Ink, LLC, Bynder, Extreme Reach, Aprimo, and Michelin Group as well as members of CI HUB’s Sales Club at the Hutong Restaurant, in the heart of Manhattan, where they had the opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences in a relaxed atmosphere in a night filled with delicious food, nice drinks. A special highlight of the evening was having the Jazz duo "Acute Inflections" as the perfect musical touch.

DAM New York 2022
After the dinner, the team visited the HS Event, joined "the Great DAM Bakeoff" and had a relaxing last evening on a Rooftop in the Meatpacking district with friends from Sharedien. What a great pleasure it was to meet everyone who has played such an essential part in our success and customer satisfaction!

There are more exclusive Sales Club Dinner events to come in the near future, so stay tuned ...

Der Elementor lädt automatisch Google Fonts. Das ist jedoch mit der DSGVO problematisch. Um auf der sicheren Seite zu sein, solltest du die Fonts lokal laden. In diesem Video erfährst du, wie's geht.

Wer kennt diesen Moment nicht? Du lernst eine neue Funktion von einer Software und denkst dir nur so: "Mensch, das hätte ich gerne früher gewusst". Dieses Video hilft dir dabei, diese kleinen, aber feinen Tricks nicht zu verpassen!

Wenn man WordPress mit anderen CMS in den Quervergleich nimmt, hat WordPress oft einen grossen Nachteil: Die Seiten sind langsam. Aber das lässt sich lösen! In diesem Video erfährst du Top-Tipps für besseren Page Speed mit WordPress.

Was macht ein gutes WordPress-Theme aus? Welche Wahl habe ich da überhaupt? Und wie kann ich ein Theme wechseln? Diese Fragen beantwortet Simea Merki im neuen Video.

One of the biggest challenge that we hear from Sitecore Content Hub customers and DAM users today is not being able to easily connect to the creative tools and apps that they use in their day to day when producing digital assets and content for their marketing campaigns.

Rethink the way you work with SharePoint, our new addition to the CI HUB family of applications. If you are a SharePoint user, you can now:

Have you noticed that we have integrated Work-Manangement-Systems like Asana into the CI HUB Connector?

Are you a NetX user? Do you want to learn more about streamlining your workflow and enabling your team to work smarter and not harder?

On the 21st of July, Gerd Glaser, Head of Customer Success at CI HUB joined Dan Savickas, Sales and Marketing Manager at NetX, and hosted an insightful webinar titled, “Make NetX your In-App-DAM” where they had the opportunity to present how to:

Etwas, was viele an WordPress so richtig begeistert ist die Möglichkeit, Inhalte richtig sinnvoll und sauber aufzubauen. Wenn du irgendwelche Inhalte cool auflisten musst, dann geht das mit Custom Post Types. Was diese können und wie du sie baust, zeigt dir Simea Merki in diesem Video.

Mit den neuen WordPress-Updates im Block Editor wird Gutenberg zur Konkurrenz für Page-Builder. Was ist besser? Gutenberg oder Elementor?

Widen simplifies how content gets to market Take the guessing game out of your workflow with the cloud-based Widen Collective®.

This video explains how to easily turn SharePoint into a distribution platform using the CI HUB Connector. This is to enrich SharePoint with content from any source without time-consuming and costly interface customization and project-specific implementation.

Die Block-Vorlagen in WordPress sind ein wunderbares Tool, um im Block-Editor ansprechende Layouts zu bauen. Doch was sind sie genau? Und wo finde ich sie? Und wie registriere ich eigene Block-Vorlagen? In diesem Video erhältst du die komplette Einführung.

CI HUB & Rights Cloud by FADEL Partnership: Devi Gupta, VP of Marketing.

Rights Cloud by FADEL is a powerful digital rights management and brand compliance solution that protects and maximizes the use of your brand assets, product packaging, marketing content and advertising by providing real-time, at-a-glance confirmation of when, where and how all content can be used.

With CI HUB you can access Images, Graphics, Templates san all digital media directly from the creative applications where you need to use them. It connects tools directly to the brand assets that are held within your DAMs, PIMs, and other media repositories.

CI HUB & Brandfolder Partnership: Sean Carty, Head of Product Marketing.

Brandfolder is a visually-elegant and user-friendly Digital Asset Management software that allows marketers and creatives across industries to maximize their brand management potential.

With CI HUB you can access Images, Graphics, Templates san all digital media directly from the creative applications where you need to use them. It connects tools directly to the brand assets that are held within your DAMs, PIMs, and other media repositories.

CI HUB & Keepeek Digital Asset Management Partnership: Thomas Larzilliere, Keepek CEO.

Keepeek is a Digital Asset Management software with advanced features to create, store and disseminate brand content, photos, videos and all other formats with validation workflows and Kanban boards. The platform integrates with PIM solutions to provide adequate image and video formats for eCommerce and corporate websites.

With CI HUB you can access Images, Graphics, Templates san all digital media directly from the creative applications where you need to use them. It connects tools directly to the brand assets that are held within your DAMs, PIMs, and other media repositories.

Nobody can describe the advantages of the CI HUB Connector better than our customers. So we asked our partners to share their experience with working with us and the CI HUB Connector.

In this video tutorial you discover how to navigate within the CI HUB Connector and learn about the options available to every user!

Learn how to access all of your connections through the navigation of the CI HUB Connector step by step, in a detailed tutorial, by Gerd Glaser and discover CI HUB Connectors full potential.

We explains the different menus, settings and function calls in the CI HUB Connector. Part 3 covers the Detail section with – Open in Browser – Use and update files – Similarity Search – Metadata settings and Metadata use.

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how you can easily create semi-automated print products using the CI HUB Connector, a cloud storage of your choice, and the data merge function of Adobe InDesign. We will begin by creating a simple business card, then progress to a more complex brochure with individual product cards using the data merge. By the end of the video tutorial, you will have gained key insights into the effective use of this function. The example templates shown are provided by CI HUB free of charge, so that you can recreate and practice the entire exercise.

In this feature shorty, you can learn how to monitor the effective ppi using the CI HUB Smart Link Tab. Having total quality control regarding “minimum resolution” is beneficial during the layout process.

Nothing increases the value of your digital assets more than applicable metadata content. And I'm not just talking about copyright notices or modified dates.

In this feature shorty, you can learn how to clear your temporary cache within the CI HUB Connector. CI HUB has developed a clever solution to get an overview of files that you may have modified but have not yet been saved on your target system (DAM, cloud storage, etc.). That helps make your DAM the “single source of truth”.

Learn how you can use the power of the CI HUB Connectors’ time-saving features when it comes to creating print files for a brochure.

How to manage assets with identical file names within the CI HUB Connector

How to install and use the CI HUB Connector in Google Workspace Apps (Google Slides, Google Sheets, and Google Docs)

Keep last selected Renditions, Large Files in Microsoft Office 365, Thumbnail Support for Adobe InCopy ICML-Files and more…

This is a short introduction to the CI HUB Connector Plugin for Sketch

This is a short introduction to the CI HUB Connector Plugin for Figma

How to simplify tasks in MS Office 365 (Power Point, Word and Excel) with the CI HUB Add-in.

How to simplify tasks in Google Workspace (Google Slides, Google Sheets and Google Docsl) with CI HUB.

With the CI HUB Connector you can:

• Connect to various source systems simultaneously (DAM, PIM, CloudStorages and Stock Providers)
• Place images and text
• Upload assets from your Figma Canvas to the connected system
• Replace images / Replace all images
• Use Fulltext Search within Figma
• Use Similarity Search within Figma
• Manage all placed assets regarding source, location, resolution, version etc.

Aprimo & CI HUB in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects

• Connect to different systems simultaneously & place images and text from these systems in PowerPoint
• Use the full-text search to find your assets
• Select a low-resolution file and place it in your project
• Connect to Getty Images and many more systems

Are you tired of jumping between windows in order to share content with your colleagues via email?

Tips & Tricks from CI HUB: How to connect multiple sources to SharePoint

Gerd Glaser, Head of Customer Success at CI HUB, and Melanie Schedl, Product Manager at CELUM on a live webinar on 04/26/2022.

Figma with Link-Panel, “box” adapter enhancements, Context Menu enhancements and more…