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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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Esoterica Archive
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Augmented Reality for Printed Publications
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsWe’re generally not a company that emphasizes a continuing role for paper (as opposed to epaper) in the future, but we are enthusiastic about some of the Augmented Reality mobile phone applications being developed by the Dutch company Layar for use with newspapers, magazines, signboards. For example, take at look at this video about using the application with magazines: Or... -
One in Every Nine People on Earth Uses Facebook
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsInteresting graphs about Social Media, from Search Engine Journal: (click the graphic below to see the full charts) Source: The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic Blogger Jeff Bullas adds a few facts extrapolated from that data: One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s... -
The Greatest Change in Media Made Newspapers Obsolete
Posted on June 14, 2009 | No CommentsI’ve overwhelmingly tempted to quote words written for the Michael Corleone character by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola in their 1990 movie and novel The Godfather III: “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.” Except that I’m no gangster, and I’ve somehow always expected to get back into blogging. During 2008, however, I’d come to... -
Ian Alexander Davies (1959-2008), R.I.P.
Posted on October 31, 2008 | No CommentsIan Alexander Davies, 49, of Topcroft, Norfolk, U.K., a husband, father of two, newspaper and magazine New Media expert, and an ardent private pilot, died Wednesday when the two-person aerobatic biplane he was aboard collided with a crop-spraying tractor as the biplane was approaching the runway at an airfield near his hometown. -
Multimedia Newspaper Professorship Opening at Syracuse
Posted on October 13, 2008 | No CommentsSyracuse University's Newhouse Schools has an opening for a Multimedia Newspaper Professor. -
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Posted on September 14, 2008 | No CommentsWhy I'm late posting the third part of my essay 'Transforming American Newspapers'; my plans to teach a graduate school course about Using New Media to Circumvent Censorship; and a brief thought about gPhones. -
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Posted on August 21, 2008 | 1 CommentI’m back! I’d taken a year off for reflection. After concluding that no daily newspaper executive in North America knows where their industry is headed, I went back to school approximately this time last year. I’d hoped that news media academics might have the answers. What I found was that, with the exception of some folks at the Media Management... -
My Re-Appearance
Posted on November 8, 2007 | No CommentsWhy I've been absent during the past seven weeks. -
Vin Crosbie Takes A Partial Sabbatical
Posted on September 14, 2007 | No CommentsStarting Monday, I have accepted a position as Adjunct Professor of Visual and Interactive Communications and Senior Consultant on Executive Education for New Media at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and will be relocating there. -
Congratulations to Dirck Halstead
Posted on September 11, 2007 | No CommentsDirck Halstead, editor and publisher of The Digital Journalist, wins lifetime achievement award. -
Monday, September 10
Posted on September 10, 2007 | No CommentsToday's reading: An Adweek article about 'Web. 2.0' in traditional publications; Alan Rusbringer's prediction that 'We're all doomed to be surprised;' the AOPUK's short list of winners; a directory of interactive maps about crime; the Wall Street Journal's Carl Bialik describes how the very large number needed just to comprehend total the cash cost of the U.S. invasion of Iraq; Veterans Administration security officers detain a Syracuse journalism student who dared photograph a hospital from a public place; and what might North Korea do now that it has its own top-level domain on the Internet. -
5,000 Days in the New Medium
Posted on August 16, 2007 | No CommentsToday is my 5,000th day working full-time in new-media. Let me tell you what I've seen, and to restate why I'm in the news business. -
Bill Moyer's Speech to Journalism Professors
Posted on August 15, 2007 | No CommentsI recommend Bill Moyers' speech to the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communications conference last week. Moreover, is part of the problem in journalism schools that incoming students pre-decide that they want to be old media journalists? -
Congratulations to Elan Lohmann of South Africa
Posted on August 7, 2007 | No CommentsCongratulations to Elan Lohmann of News24.com in South Africa, who will chair Ifra's 15th World Digital Publishing Conference this year. On other topics: Traffic to newspaper web sites has declined this month; approximately 80 percent of the American consumers who use magazines' websites don't read the print editions; Veronis Suhler Stevenson says that American consumers last year used media less than in previous years, the first first time in recent memory that the amount of time consumers spend with media has declined; and The New York Times publishes a story about what happens when a company mistakenly tries to use a new medium as a mass medium. -
Minding The ABCs
Posted on August 6, 2007 | No CommentsThe American Audit Bureau of Circulations' attempt to combine print circulation and online traffic is sleight-of-hand; UK online journalist earn more money than their print compatriots; and Conde Nasté's YouTube channels are laudable but examples of a changing media battlefield that the company is losing.
