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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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Is Blogging Journalism? (Rounds 1 through 4)
Posted on April 19, 2004 | 4 CommentsIn the foreground, Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor, the turned head of an attendee we don’t know, , and Gordon Joseloff of WestportNow.com and formerly of CBS News and UPI. That’s me near the clock, commenting to the What is Journalism? session at BloggerCon II. Photo courtesy of Werner Vogels (click to enlarge it.) Is blogging is journalism?... -
BloggerCon II
Posted on April 19, 2004 | No CommentsBloggers attending the BoggerCon II conference Saturday at Harvard University’s Law School voted that forming a trade association of bloggers and also giving advertisers better usage statistics about blogs are the two best paths toward generating revenues from blogging. During a session on Blogging as a Business, moderated by Jeff Jarvis, president of Advance Internet and author of the BuzzMachine... -
What If They Gave A Party and No One Came?
Posted on January 30, 2004 | No CommentsYes, the Newspaper Association of America setup a group weblog for attendees of its Connections online publishing conference and none of them used it. So what? Did anyone really expect it to be used? Last November, a group weblog that the Online News Association provided to attendees of its annual meeting was heavily used. However, that was a group weblog... -
A Solid, Practical Guide for Commercial Blogging
Posted on November 20, 2003 | 1 CommentIf you’re a business or a person planning to launch a Web log for a product, service, public relations, lead generation, advocacy, product, service, public relations, or any other business purpose, MarketingWonk has published a solid, practical guide for you. Business Blogs: How Successful Companies Get Real Results from Weblogs, written by Kate Kaye with help from Rick E. Bruner,... -
The 11 November IT Professionals GnomeReport
Posted on November 12, 2003 | No CommentsWe thank Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome, who today is attempting to clear up Digital Deliverance’s “deep misunderstandings of the RSS feed and its accomplaying blog technology.” He has been leading a charge that publishers should abandon e-mail publishing in exchange for RSS feed syndication. Because his opinions have been picked up by some mainstream publishing pundits, we think his misinformation... -
Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2
Posted on November 12, 2003 | No CommentsThe second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and BlogAds, and Nick Denton of Gawker, Gizmodo, and the recently launched Fleshbot. The article elicited this response from... -
iCAN Through the BBC
Posted on October 26, 2003 | No CommentsNewspapers that provide blogs to a few readers are merely creating a few amateur guest columnists. That’s not ‘participatory journalism’. What is will be unveiled next Monday by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Called iCAN, the BBC Interactive‘s participatory journalism program lets any resident of a UK community raise issues, promote grassroot campaigns, find people with the same public concerns, and... -
Possibly Ways to Track RSS Readerships
Posted on October 17, 2003 | 1 CommentBrian Peddle of SavedByZero.org discusses possible ways to track readers of Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds. It certainly won’t beat an e-mail subscriber list and e-mail open/clickthrough tracking as ways to know who reads your content. -
Jay Rosen on Blogging & Journalism
Posted on October 17, 2003 | No CommentsProfessor Jay Rosen of New York University’s School of Journalism offers some interesting and contrarian thoughts about blogging & journalism. -
WestportNow.com
Posted on October 10, 2003 | No CommentsCyberjournalists.net profiles Gordon Joseloff, a former CBS News and UPI foreign correspondent, who has used blogware to create an online news publication about his hometown of Westport, Connecticut. A very affluent community of 26,000 people, Westport has weekly and semi-weekly printed newspapers, but no dailies covering it well. Its residents’ high per capita income means that a very high percentage... -
The Spokesman-Review's Ten Blogs
Posted on October 10, 2003 | No CommentsCyberjournalist.net reports on the ten blogs that the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, has launched. -
A Blogging Mystery for the Ages
Posted on October 9, 2003 | No CommentseMarketer today provides its usual good briefing skills to Perseus’s survey of blogs, which estimated that there are 4.12 million blogs worldwide. In that survey, the conclusion that got the most publicy was 66% of the surveyed blogs had not been updated during at least the past two months. Statistically, that represents 2.72 billion blogs. Some 1.09 million of those... -
Paid Subscription Blogging – Part 1
Posted on October 8, 2003 | No CommentsWe look at the prospects for paid subscription blogging, in our monthly Publishing: Free to Fee column published today at ClickZ.com. The second half of the column will appear there next month. -
Nieman Report on Journalist Weblogging
Posted on October 2, 2003 | No CommentsFor those who are following the controversy about whether or not webloging is journalism, the Fall 2003 edition of Nieman Reports, the magazine of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, includes articles by Christopher Allbritton, Eric Alterman, Paul Andrews, Rebecca Blood, Dan Gillmor, Mark Glaser, Paul Grabowicz, Jane E. Kirtley, J.D. Lasica, Sheila Lennon, Bill Mitchell, Steve Olafson,... -
Editing Blogs or Censoring Blogs?
Posted on September 24, 2003 | 2 CommentsSome general comments about whether or not blogs should be edited: The blogging community often mistakes the word editing for the word censoring, and gets all atwitter. There is nothing wrong with editing a blog or any other published writing. Editing involves making sure that every word and name is correctly spelled; that the writing makes grammatical sense (except where...