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What We Do
Since 1996, the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance has provided publishers and broadcasters with strategic reviews and advice about how to profitably adapt to the remarkable changes that New Media have brought to them and their consumers.
Over the years, the firm's clients have include The New York Times, News Corporation, The Irish Times of Dublin, Dagbladet of Oslo, The Mail & Guardian of Johannesburg, Advance Publications, Presspoint, The Boston Herald, Critical Mention, MediaNews Group, New Century Network, the Media Development Loan Fund, PR Newswire, the National Cancer Institutes, and scores of other media or firms adapt to New Media.
The managing partner of Digital Deliverance is Vin Crosbie, an Adjunct Professor of Multimedia Photography & Design and the Senior Consultant on Curricula and Social and New Media at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication.
Digital Deliverance is incorporated as a limited liability company in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
Recent Speaking Engagements
Keynoted the fifth annual Personalize Media conference, held this year on June 21-22, 2011, Boulder, Colorado.
The speaker of the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation annual Media Lecture, Drama Centre, National Library, Singapore, July 14, 2010.
The co-chair and co-moderator of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication's Monetizing Online Business Conference, New York City, June 24-25, 2010.
The speaker of the Twelfth Annual Pearl A. and Albert E. Mall Annual Lecture, Binghamton University School of Education, Binghamton, New York, May 26, 2010.
A speaker and co-moderator at the Media Development Loan Fund Biennial Media Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 14-15, 2010.
A speaker at the East Asian Institute for Media Management and Transformation Center's International Conference on Business of Emerging Media, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 21-22, 2010.
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Broadcasting Archive
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New Media Business Course Syllabi
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsFor the past four years, I’ve been teaching a New Media Business for media course at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It was originally open just to postgraduate students, but a few years ago we opened it to select upperclassmen, too. Some 250 students have taken the course. Approximately half were from the Newhouse School’s Media Management... -
My Thanks to Danny Meadows-Klue
Posted on November 19, 2011 | 1 CommentOne of the few people whose New Media work I loyally follow is the British web publishing pioneer Danny Meadows-Klue. I first met Klue during the mid-1990s when he was online publisher of The Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk). Since that job, he has co-founded the UK and European Interactive Advertising Bureaus (elected their president four times before serving as the first chief executive... -
The Epochal Change That The Rise of Social Media Demarcates
Posted on November 1, 2010 | 1 CommentWhenever anyone from the traditional media industries writes, blogs, or tweets about Social Media, they miss the point. I find this so exasperating that I want to stab them with the point. Here is my thrust: When newspaper, magazine, radio, and television folks write or speak about Social Media, they consider Social Media as sideshows or separate from traditional media. They... -
Podcasting As A Truly Unique News Format
Posted on February 13, 2007 | 1 CommentBesides the BBC's 'Story Fix,' is there any other news organizations that are starting to create a truly unique podcasting format? -
Today's Goodies: Cauthorn Webcast; Parks Retrospective
Posted on April 12, 2006 | No CommentsToday's Goodies: A webcast of Bob 'Thorn in the Side of the Newspaper Industry' Cauthorn; a Gordon Parks retrospective in The Digital Journalist; brilliant coverage by the Houston Chronicle and El País; Miami Herald Miami Herald Executive Editor Tom Fiedler's memo to his staff; Heidi Cohen on what advertisers should do now that publishers of printed periodicals are finally getting serious about shifting their business online; The Tyndall Report on ABC, CBS, and NBC news; Eight Diagram's interviews with photographers & writers; and my beta test of Google Content Blocker. -
John Naughton on the End of Traditional Broadcasting
Posted on March 6, 2006 | No CommentsBritish TV reviewer turned internet guru, John Naughton, foresees the end of traditional broadcasting and the rise of a new media ecology amid unending change. He names a few of its characteristics he foresees, in a Guardian essay (free registration required) that’s adapted from the UK Marketing Society’s Annual Lecture he delivered on February 28th. Worth reading. -
CNN, Losing on the Air, Winning Online.
Posted on February 8, 2006 | No CommentsThe New York Observer compares online usage data about the U.S. news networks’ websites and notes that CNN, though losing television audience to FoxNews, is trouncing FoxNews online. That’s particularly important, according to CNN.com senior vice president and general manager David Payne: “The data is pretty clear. The broadcast-news ratings chart just drops and drops and drops. For cable, it’s... -
Representative Speeches
Posted on January 13, 2006 | 1 CommentI'm one of 23 Americans with a speech chosen for publication in the reference book 'Representative American Speeches 2004-2005'. Its publishers chose my remarks from the 'Reinventing the Local TV Station: Ground-Breaking Ideas from Innovative Thinkers' panel during the Broadcast Education Association's session at the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference last year. -
First CM Deal Received Good Publicity Today
Posted on May 11, 2005 | No CommentsWe’re pleased that the agreement we setup between MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and Critical Mention received such good publicity today. It was the top headline in MediaPost Media Daily News and in CBS MarketWatch’s Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily. Media News Daily‘s lead was particularly nice: IN A POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT for the licensing of TV content on the Web, a major producer... -
SF Radio To Play Podcasts; Other Radio Stations to Stream Videos
Posted on April 27, 2005 | No CommentsOn May 16th, Infinity Broadcasting’s KYCY-AM in San Francisco will drop its talk radio format and switch to broadcasting its listeners’ own podcasts. It’ll also stream those podcasts from the domain KYOURADIO.com Open Source Radio. Beginning today, listeners will be able to upload their podcasts of varying lengths for free at KYOURADIO>com, where podcasts will be chosen by the broadcaster.... -
How to Receive the BBC's RSS Feeds
Posted on June 25, 2003 | No Commentsb>Adrian Holovaty shows how to receive the BBC’s RSS feeds. -
UK's GMTV Launches Commercial MMS Services
Posted on June 23, 2003 | No CommentsGMTV — which promotes itself as ‘Britain’s Biggest Breakfast Show’ — has launched what NewMediaAge describes as the UK’s first commercial Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) that circumvent UK mobile network carriers’ ‘walled gardens’ business models and delivers content directly to mobile phone users. Thrice weekly, GMTV viewers who register for the service receive messages from GMTV’s Summer Food program. Each... -
Pocket PC Streaming Video on GPRS and WiFi
Posted on June 12, 2003 | No CommentsGoConnect of Australia, which already provides streaming videos to Pocket PC mobile phone using GPRS phone networks, is also offering those videos to those users on less expensive WiFi local networks there, too. GoConnect’s m-Vision streaming service currently includes Austrialian business and sports news, horoscopes, and music videos. Earlier this year, The Age reported that some 16,000 users worldwide had... -
ABC News Switches Around-the-Clock Portals
Posted on June 11, 2003 | No CommentsABC News has removed its live feed from Yahoo Platinum and made RealNetworks the only Internet hub with its around-the-clock Webcast, according to The Wall Street Journal [a paid-subscription Web site] yesterday. Yahoo Platinum will continue to offer other streaming television programs from ABC News, not the live news feed. Yahoo Platinum and RealNetworks each charge consumers subscription fees to... -
02 Tries Mobile Video
Posted on April 18, 2003 | No CommentsO2 tries out mobile video. 02 becomes the latest mobile firm to trial video clips via phones, including highlights of Arsenal matches.
