The Email Cataloging option for Cumulus 8 makes an entirely new type of digital asset management possible, because now anyone can contribute to your collections—from anywhere—with absolutely no security concerns or administration headaches. And, with no user training required!

Imagine some of the new capabilities Email Cataloging makes possible:

Real Estate Agents and Insurance Adjusters – You spend your days out in the field, taking countless smart-phone photos and videos. The problem is, those files aren’t available to coworkers and prospects until you get back to the office. Now, you can email them right from the spot you take them! They’re safely cataloged into Cumulus, available to those who need them, even before you leave the site.

Imagine it: RemoteCataloging@myRealEstateAgency.com

Community Contributions – You’re a local government agency who depends on the contributions of your community to build your historical archives, or just provide pictures of potholes and other hazards that need attention. Now there’s no easier way for your community to play an active role in their government!

Imagine it: HelpingMyCommunity@mytown.gov

Law Enforcement – We see it all the time: photos and videos taken by bystanders who witness crime, accidents or other events for which visual evidence can be invaluable. But how many people know how to get photos like these to the proper authorities? Now, you can publish a single email address that’s easy to remember—and will actually get used.

Imagine it: TakeActionNow@myLawEnforcement.gov

Broadcast Media Outlets – Your news organization regularly solicits footage and photos from your audience. Right now, all those files arrive in an email box that someone has to manually manage. Now, you can have them automatically cataloged into Cumulus, without a single manual mouse click. That’s a fantastic time savings for your staff!

Imagine it: ViewerSubmissions@ActionNewsShow.tv

These examples offer only a glimpse of the power offered by the Email Cataloging option, available only with Cumulus 8, but there are many other important benefits too, including:

• Loss prevention – Imagine taking all those photos and videos out in the field and then lose your phone, or accidentally delete its contents. That’s a catastrophe that’s easily avoided now.
• Immediate secured sharing – Immediate distribution via Email Cataloging is great, but thanks to the powerful permissions inside all editions of Cumulus, you can control who has access to assets even before those assets exist! That way, even new assets are protected from the moment they’re cataloged.
• Multi-cataloging – Sometimes you want to catalog a single asset into multiple catalogs. Without Email Cataloging, that’s a multi-step process. But just by setting up several email accounts, each “feeding” a different catalog, you can catalog any number of assets into any number of catalogs in a single step!
• Contributor identity retention – Without Email Cataloging, there’s no way to obtain contact information for guests (those without Cumulus accounts) who contribute to your catalogs. But Email Cataloging not only grabs the email message and all its attachments, it also grabs the email address of the sender, so you can get in touch if you need to.

What can you imagine doing with Email Cataloging and Cumulus 8?

Find out more about what’s new in Cumulus 8:
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