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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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The Dead Tree Digital Replacement Index
Posted on August 3, 2007 | No CommentsForget most financial reports from newspaper companies. The Dead Tree Digital Replacement Index calculates if a newspaper company's digital revenue gains compensate for the company's print edition revenue losses. -
WSJ Parody; Pan Am and UPI; and Reuters Hot Car
Posted on August 2, 2007 | No CommentsA parody of what Murdoch's Wall Street Journal might be like; neither the current UPI nor Pan Am are real; funding doesn't mean much except money; Abel Mutsakani is shot; and Reuter's burning bad luck at the Tour de France. -
It's World Press Freedom Day 2007 (Outside the U.S.)
Posted on May 3, 2007 | No CommentsWhy isn't World Press Freedom Day commemorated by U.S. domestic media? -
Accounting for Time
Posted on March 9, 2007 | No CommentsReasons why there have been few posts here. Plus, what the main reason for newspapers' readership declines is not. Plus, today's observations -
Promote World Press Freedom on May 3rds
Posted on January 5, 2007 | No CommentsNews websites should promote World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd. -
Major Media Companies Have Become Your Father's Oldsmobiles
Posted on November 21, 2006 | No CommentsStartup companies no longer seek access to major media to disseminate their content. The opposite is true. -
Travel Plans for November
Posted on October 14, 2006 | No CommentsI’ll be traveling during most of November, and I look forward to seeing friends and business acquaintances on these date and cities: Vienna, November 8-12, where I’ll be co-chairing & co-moderating Ifra’s 14th annual Beyond the Printed Word world electronic publishing conference London, November 13. León, Spain, November 14-17, where I’m speaking at the Spanish Daily Newspaper Association’s conference London,... -
To Blog or Not To Blog?
Posted on July 24, 2006 | No CommentsSingapore River – © Vin Crosbie During a BloggerCon conference a few years ago at Harvard University, Jeff Jarvis was lecturing about why businesses should blog. Knowing that this site had been blogging, he picked me out of the audience and asked if blogging had improved my site’s traffic. I answered the question accurately. Yes, I said, it had... -
Many Thanks for the Best Wishes
Posted on June 1, 2006 | 1 CommentMany thanks to friends who sent me best wishes when I was ill last month. -
Ongoing Redesign of this Site
Posted on May 10, 2006 | No CommentsWe ask your patience as we redesign our website. -
What is 'New Media' (redux)
Posted on April 27, 2006 | No CommentsAt the root of most publishing and broadcasting companies problems understanding and adapting to the New Medium is they actually misunderstand what a medium is. I've long been reluctant to explain this misunderstanding because I'll need a long post to do so. This is it, a new version of my 1998 essay What is New Media?. It's long, but I consider it the most important thing I have ever written except for the original essay, and hope you'll forebear its length. I need to have this new version online because I plan to refer to it in future postings, specifically those about what radical changes that media companies need to implement. -
Raise a Web Banner for World Press Freedom Day (May 3)
Posted on April 14, 2006 | No CommentsWhy online news sites should devote a home page banner ad to World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd. -
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. -
NDAs Come & Go
Posted on April 4, 2006 | No Comments“Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” — old Negro spiritual. In my case, free of an unusual Non-Disclosure Agreement that expired April 1st. For the first time in a decade of full-time consulting, I had been presented with an NDA that prohibited me from writing anything for publication during the latter half... -
Humor Columnist Dave Barry's Serious Answer About the Death of Newspapers
Posted on March 13, 2006 | No CommentsPulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry explains why he stopped writing a newspaper column, why he thinks newspapers are dead, and his opinion of newspaper podcasting.