Mary Brantner was the Municipal Association of South Carolina‘s 7th employee. 28 years later, the nonprofit organization has 50 employees, and Mary continues to manage all of the organization’s publications, does the editing and writing and works closely with website. In a way, she is the keeper of the association’s stories. “I kind of play the unofficial role of institutional memory here,” says Mary. Over the years, the Municipal Association of South Carolina (MASC) has captured photos of important moments in Palmetto State history and maintained a loosely structured inventory of photos. “As we progressed and got more and more pictures, we looked for years for a solution so we could not only just archive but retrieve pictures for historical purposes or a newsletter,” explains Mary. Mary and her team used SharePoint for documents, but it wasn’t the right fit for images. She says it had the “allure of metadata,” but was too cumbersome for photos. She and her team considered other solutions, but they were worried about the security of their images. “We really wanted to make sure we didn’t lose control or access to our pictures, so we didn’t want an outside company,” says Mary. Then, they decided […]
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