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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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Conferences & Seminars Archive
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Jim Chishold to Speak at 'Beyond the Printed Word'
Posted on October 25, 2006 | No CommentsThere are two people who have more knowledge than anyone else about how to revive the newspaper industry, and one of them is iMedia Joint Principal Jim Chisholm. As co-chairman and co-moderator of the 14th annual Beyond the Printed Word conference next month in Vienna, I’m pleased to hear that Jim has kindly agreed to speak there on the topic... -
Business Models for Newspaper Publishers conference
Posted on October 24, 2006 | 1 CommentI criticized the American Press Institute‘s Newspaper Next project last month for wasting more than US$2 million and a year producing a “blueprint” to “transform the industry” that in reality turned out to be little more than advice that publishers should think of newspapers as things that readers ‘hire’ to perform various ‘jobs” such as telling them what’s occuring in... -
Newspaper Online Usage Math
Posted on October 9, 2006 | No CommentsWhy I attended the New England New Media Association conference rather than ONA or AOPUK. Plus why NAA total readership numbers don't add up. -
Beyond the Printed Word (Nov. 9-10) preview
Posted on September 18, 2006 | No CommentsI'm proud of the speakers lineup for Ifra's forthcoming 'Beyond the Printed Word' conference. -
When Trade Associations Do Dumb Things
Posted on August 7, 2006 | No CommentsWAN and FIPP disserve the newspaper industry by splitting from Ifra and scheduling their own new media conference immediately before the annual Beyond the Printed Word conference that all three organizations had developed. -
Media Giraffe at UMass This Week
Posted on June 26, 2006 | No CommentsIf any of you are in New England this week, I'll be in Amherst at the University of Massachusetts, attending the four-day Media Giraffe conference about the future of journalism. -
Beyond the Printed Word 2006
Posted on June 26, 2006 | No CommentsAnnelies van den Belt and I will chair the 'Beyond the Printed Word' being organized this autumn in Vienna by the World Association of Newspapers, the International Federation of the Periodical Press, and Ifra. -
What's Wrong with Media
Posted on June 2, 2006 | 1 CommentMy presentation at Editor & Publisher and MEDIAWEEK magazines' Interactive Media conference in Las Vegas last month. -
Culture Shock within Online Publishing
Posted on May 25, 2006 | No CommentsIn 1998, media executives involved with new-media and new-media entrepreneurs were on roughly the same level of sophistication about technology and new-media theory. But most media executives are still at that 1998 level, while the entrepreneurs are now eight years' more sophisticaled. This difference, as seen in two recent conferences, was so striking that I'm still in shock. This drives to the heart of why periodicals have failed to adapt to the Internet beyond about 1998. -
Syndicate: The Need for Meta-Data
Posted on May 16, 2006 | No CommentsThe major problem with online content isn't lack of a business model but lack of tagging. -
Cauthorn and Defense Minister Challenge Asian Publishers
Posted on April 26, 2006 | No CommentsExcerpts from Bob Cauthorn's speech to the Publish Asia 2006 conference yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. -
A Date with the Butcher
Posted on April 24, 2006 | 1 CommentWhy the American newspaper industry is doomed unless it makes radical changes, including in its new-media efforts. -
Six New-Media Events in May
Posted on April 13, 2006 | No CommentsSix noteworthy events in the new-media industries next month. -
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. -
Today's Goodies: Ifra's E-Book Periodical
Posted on April 4, 2006 | No CommentsMy favorite news site designer this side of the Atlantic is Jay Small, He is director of online audience and operations for the newspaper division of E.W. Scripps Co. and also runs his own consulting firm. Jay today reviews NYTimes.com‘s new redesign. Jay also recently made downloadable his PowerPoint slides about online audience strategy, from his recent speech at the...
