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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.
General Strategies Archive
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New Media Business Course Syllabi
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsFor the past four years, I’ve been teaching a New Media Business for media course at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It was originally open just to postgraduate students, but a few years ago we opened it to select upperclassmen, too. Some 250 students have taken the course. Approximately half were from the Newhouse School’s Media Management... -
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... -
Personalize Media 2011 Keynote Speech
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No Comments[34-minute PowerPoint video of keynote speech opening the fifth annual Personalize MEdia Conference (formerly Individuated Media conferences), Boulder, Colorado. June 20, 2011. How traditional media companies have gone astray by misperceiving consumers' switch from analog to digital formats to be the greatest trend underway; why the abundance of content instead makes personalization (i.e., individuation) the greatest trend of 21st Century media; and... -
Chisholm States Why Charging For Newspaper Websites Is Self-Destructive
Posted on November 17, 2010 | 3 CommentsJim Chisholm, the world's expert about newspaper operations, tells why newspapers charging for their websites are self-destructive. -
The Epochal Change That The Rise of Social Media Demarcates
Posted on November 1, 2010 | 1 CommentWhenever anyone from the traditional media industries writes, blogs, or tweets about Social Media, they miss the point. I find this so exasperating that I want to stab them with the point. Here is my thrust: When newspaper, magazine, radio, and television folks write or speak about Social Media, they consider Social Media as sideshows or separate from traditional media. They... -
Citizen Journalism Absent in the Arab Press
Posted on October 2, 2010 | No CommentsMy thanks to Dr. Khalid Mohammed Ghazi, editor of the Cairo-based Arab Press Agency, for citing some of my work in his editorial, صحافة المواطن.. غائبة عن الصحافة العربية (Citizen Journalism…Absent from the Arab Press), published on Wednesday in, among other newspapers, Al Shabiba of Oman. [Click the English title of his essay to read a Google machine translation of the... -
Rupert Murdoch, the Convergence Placebo, and iPad Gellcaps
Posted on August 13, 2010 | 1 CommentHow the Apple iPad makes the placebo of convergence easier for newspaper executives to swallow. -
The End of Newspapers and The Future of Information
Posted on August 12, 2010 | No CommentsRecommending the French book, La Fin des Journaux et l'avenir de l'information (The End of Newspapers and the Future of Information). -
Why Americans Who Don’t Use The Internet Don’t Use It
Posted on August 11, 2010 | No CommentsWhy Americans who don't use the Internet don't use it. -
Savvy Articles About Change or Its Lack in News Media
Posted on August 10, 2010 | No CommentsHere are some savvy articles about how media is changing, will change radically, and why its companies might not be adapting to change. -
Verizon and Google Connive To Control Internet Traffic
Posted on August 9, 2010 | 1 CommentThe Verizon-Google proposal today announced for regulating Internet traffic is as good for consumers as the Axis Pact was for the world in 1940. -
The Media Academic Research Treadmill
Posted on July 31, 2010 | 14 CommentsSeveral hundred media professors will converge on Denver, Colorado, this week for the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. I won’t be among them (I’ll be at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where my fiancé is undergoing treatment). I teach New Media at a leading school, so probably should (were not my fiancé ill) go to... -
Singaporean TV News Coverage
Posted on July 19, 2010 | No CommentsTV news coverage of the third annual Media Lecture, delivered by Prof. Vin Crosbie on July 14, 2010, at the Drama Center of the National Library of Singapore. -
Reinventing Your Local Newspaper
Posted on May 3, 2009 | No CommentsI'm spending much of the next few months in the Republic of South Africa where I'm helping that country's leading journalism school in what I hope will be a notable advance in how journalism and news publishing are practiced in the 21st Century.