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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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Printed Newspaper Push; Online Newspapers Pull
Posted on September 23, 2003 | No CommentsSFGate News Director Vlae Kershner has an interesting quote in an Editor & Publisher‘s online interview. Asked why he opposes charging for access to his content: “Newspapers need to charge because they have high production costs and because if they don’t, advertisers will think the papers are just being thrown away. We don’t have either of those conditions — we... -
Ban Spam, Don't Just Filter It
Posted on September 18, 2003 | No CommentsCloudmark, which manufactures spam filters for corporations, is hawking an e-mail rating system that it says could solve the problem of ‘False-Positives’ — solicited e-mail that gets caught in spam filters. Nice try, but technological solutions aren’t really going to solve the spam problem. We think the solution is that spam should be made outright illegal. We’ve argued for that... -
Mobile Phone E-Mail Use to Grow 10% to 35%
Posted on September 17, 2003 | No CommentsNokia claims that use of e-mail on mobile phones will grow by 35 percent during the next 18 months. The Register thinks Nokia’s prediction might be somewhat high and quotes an analyst who believe that 10 percent growth would be more realistic. -
AOL Time Warner The Spammer
Posted on September 17, 2003 | No CommentsFor more than eight years, Pathfinder.com has been the oxymoron of online publishing. Pathfinder and its parent company, AOL Time Warner (soon to be renamed Time Warner) are the poster children for Mass Media cluelessness about New Media. So, no one should be surprised about the bad e-mail experiences that Seattle Times Columnist Charles Burmont had when: “I recently sent... -
News for the Welsh Disapora
Posted on September 4, 2003 | No CommentsThe 20% of the Welsh population who actually speak their national language finally have their own online weekly newspaper. Y-Cymro, the weekly newspaper for North Wales, has launched a Web site, an e-mail edition, and a digital edition. “We decided to introduced the service to attract new readers, but there has been a demand for the service from people all... -
The EU Ban on Spam
Posted on June 13, 2003 | No CommentsWhile North American governmental bodies lament the rise of spam, the European Parliament is banning it. Effective in October, the Parliament’s Directive 2002/58/EC [(PDF format)] bans unsolicited commercial e-mail within the European Union countries. The directive, which also applies to unsolicited SMS and MMS messages, permits commercial e-mails from any company which has received the informed “prior explicit consent” of... -
October 2003 European Anti-Spam Deadline
Posted on June 3, 2003 | No CommentsWriting in TechCentralStation: Europe, Sandy Starr reminds that, “… October 2003 is the deadline for implementing the European Commission’s Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, which dictates that ‘member states shall take appropriate measures to ensure that…unsolicited communications for purposes of direct marketing…are not allowed either without the consent of the subscribers concerned or in respect of subscribers who do... -
We've Always Known It
Posted on May 23, 2003 | No CommentsWe categorically agree with this interesting quote from Slate.com Editor-in-Chief Jacob Weisberg in a New York Times‘ story (free registration required) about his site making a quarterly profit: “As it turns out, e-mail was the killer application on the Web.” -
Delivery & Registration
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But Should Harvard Alumni Even Have AOL Accounts?
Posted on January 2, 2002 | No CommentsDozens of applicants to Harvard University didn’t hear ‘You’ve got mail!’ when American Online rejected the university’s e-mails about their acceptance as Harvard students. According to Boston.com, AOL’s e-mail filtering system mistook Harvard’s mass e-mailing as a spam attack and blocked those messages. (We wonder if AOL also blocks the Harvard Law School Alumni Association’s fund-raising e-mails to its alumni,... -
E-Mail the Major Carrier of Computer Viruses
Posted on January 2, 2002 | No CommentsAccording to a story in The South China Morning Post , Computer Associates and Kaspersky Labs repor that that 90% of computer viruses were transmitted via e-mails. According to MessageLabs, an average of one message in every 300 contains a virus, compared to one in every 700 one year ago. It expects that one in every 10 will contain a...