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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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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... -
When “Enormous” is Picayune: the NYTimes.com Paywall
Posted on August 3, 2011 | 11 CommentsThe ‘Reality Distortion Field‘ is a term coined by Apple Computer employees and competitors to describe how the bravado and charisma of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs tends to make his audience overlook otherwise obvious flaws in what he promotes. Job’s Reality Distortion Field works because his audience wants to believe what he says. So too operates The New York Times‘ Reality... -
Personalize Media 2011 Keynote Speech
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No Comments[34-minute PowerPoint video of keynote speech opening the fifth annual Personalize MEdia Conference (formerly Individuated Media conferences), Boulder, Colorado. June 20, 2011. How traditional media companies have gone astray by misperceiving consumers' switch from analog to digital formats to be the greatest trend underway; why the abundance of content instead makes personalization (i.e., individuation) the greatest trend of 21st Century media; and... -
Chisholm States Why Charging For Newspaper Websites Is Self-Destructive
Posted on November 17, 2010 | 3 CommentsJim Chisholm, the world's expert about newspaper operations, tells why newspapers charging for their websites are self-destructive. -
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... -
The End of Newspapers and The Future of Information
Posted on August 12, 2010 | No CommentsRecommending the French book, La Fin des Journaux et l'avenir de l'information (The End of Newspapers and the Future of Information). -
Regarding Academic Research and Fatuous Reporting About Trouble Media Industries
Posted on August 8, 2010 | No CommentsMany of the media industries for which journalism and media professors prepare students are, if not yet dying, seriously ill, stumbling if not yet in collapse due to titanic changes underway. Ten days ago, I published here a call for American journalism and media professors to conduct more practical research because too much of their research is too esoteric to... -
Singaporean TV News Coverage
Posted on July 19, 2010 | No CommentsTV news coverage of the third annual Media Lecture, delivered by Prof. Vin Crosbie on July 14, 2010, at the Drama Center of the National Library of Singapore. -
The Placebo Called Convergence
Posted on June 9, 2010 | 3 CommentsA placebo called the convergence strategy has been willingly swallowed by most media companies and the media industries. -
An ‘Unnatural’ Conference About Online Media Business Models
Posted on June 8, 2010 | 2 CommentsCome to a New Media business models conference in which the Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications is inviting only speakers who we think have the answer—regardless where they are from or what they're rank, specialists who together have all the facets of the solution and will be working in coordination with each other at the conference. -
The Greatest Change in the History of Media
Posted on June 8, 2010 | 7 CommentsWe live amid the greatest change in the history of media. Most media executives fail to recognize it and mistake its traits as the change itself. -
Nokia’s Life Tools and 175+ Countries
Posted on June 15, 2009 | No CommentsNokia's Life Tools project is an intriguing addition to news organization's mobile palette. -
EPublishing Innovations Forum 2008
Posted on June 16, 2008 | No CommentsMy opening keynote speech from EPublishing Innovations Forum 2008, London, May 7, 2008. Why 1.3 billion people have gravitate online despite their already having access to mass media in much more convenient formats than online. Why the fragmentation of audiences is an illusion. Why traditional newspapers' and news magazines' circulations, and news broadcasts' viewerships, must ineluctably evaporate. Why most newspapers' and news magazines' and news broadcasters' Web sites won't save their companies. Why people will be even better served by New Media than by Mass Media. And why the change today is even greater than that during Gutenberg's era. -
Payment for Online Content is Far From Dead, Despite TimesSelect's Demise
Posted on September 20, 2007 | No CommentsI hate to rain on the parade of pundits who hail TimesSelect's demise as proving paid content is dead. Thought payment for the traditional one-to-many package of news content, or even a subsection of it, is dead; people will be willing to pay for customized news services that exactly match from all sources each of their individual needs. -
TimesSelect No Longer $elective
Posted on September 18, 2007 | No CommentsThe New York Times Company attempts sleight-of-hand in its announcement ending its experiment at charging for online access to its Opinion section and archives.
