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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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BBC News Popup Translations to Learners of Welsh
Posted on November 4, 2004 | No CommentsYou don’t you read Welsh? If not, how will you know the Diweddaraf Newyddion o’r Cymru (Latest News from Wales)? It’s hard to use y we (the Web) if you don’t understand the language. The BBC understands, so its New Media Department in Wales has created Vocab, an open source website tool that offers English-language popup translations of Welsh words.... -
Internet Not a "Place of Public Accomodation"
Posted on September 28, 2004 | No CommentsA U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a October 2002 lower court -
British Online Usage 1999-2003 Increased 8X
Posted on August 12, 2004 | No CommentsBetween 1999 and 2003, the time Britons spent online increased by eightfold, according to a report today in netimperative. Text messaging has increased fifteen-fold. People in the UK now spend more money on mobile phones than fixed-line telephony. By contrast, the growth of traditional media has been paltry. UK television viewing increased by only 2 percent and radio listening by... -
More Evidence That Europeans Lead
Posted on April 19, 2004 | No CommentsMy American compatriots still won’t believe me when I say that the best online publications are European. I’ve been telling them that for years, but their their national pride makes them think that whatever was invented in America is still made there. (Oh, yeah? Just try finding an American manufacturer of television sets, radio sets, disc drives, or cameras.) The... -
Percentages of Adult Populations Online
Posted on January 22, 2004 | No CommentseMarketer today has a good, short article about which countries have the highest percentages of their adult populations online. -
Chinese Internet Brings Some Justice
Posted on January 16, 2004 | No CommentsOn the front page of The New York Times (registration site) today, there is an excellent report about how average people in China are beginning to use the Internet as a means to demand — and sometimes get — justice from their legal system. The Peoples Republic of China nowadays has the world’s second largest population of online users (the... -
Needs Versus Technology
Posted on December 9, 2003 | No CommentsTech for tech’s sake does not a market make. The world can have as many waves of new technologies as serendipty, venture capital, or the right combination of both can muster. But the technologies that are accepted by, and make a difference in, society are those that satisfy needs. Not the technies’ needs, but the needs of the average (fair... -
Effects of the EU 'Ban on Spam' Directive?
Posted on November 5, 2003 | 1 CommentAt the beginning of this month, the European Union’s ‘ban on spam’ directive (PDF format) took effect: ‘Cookies’ and other invisible tracking devices that can collect information on Internet users may be utilised only if the user is given clear information about the purpose of any such invisible activity and is offered the right to refuse it. Location data generated... -
The Difference Between IAB and AOP in UK
Posted on October 28, 2003 | No CommentsTwo weeks ago, we noted PaidContent.org’s report that UK Internet Advertising Bureau Chairman Richard Eyre‘s speech to the UK Association of Online Publishers Association’s annual awards banquet was practically a cry for merger between the IAB and the AOP. Mike Butcher, deputy editor of MediaWeek Online, though otherwise and has written a story about the U.K. turf battle between those... -
iCAN Through the BBC
Posted on October 26, 2003 | No CommentsNewspapers that provide blogs to a few readers are merely creating a few amateur guest columnists. That’s not ‘participatory journalism’. What is will be unveiled next Monday by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Called iCAN, the BBC Interactive‘s participatory journalism program lets any resident of a UK community raise issues, promote grassroot campaigns, find people with the same public concerns, and... -
Newsstand.com Offer New Scientist
Posted on October 13, 2003 | No CommentsNewsstand.com has begun distributing a digital edition of New Scientist magazines. That’s a bit of a coup for two reasons. “This is a great leap forward for New Scientist. It will bring the magazine to a whole new audience, many of whom wouldn’t have access to the print copy,” said Natasha Ward, publisher of New Scientist. “I think it’s quite... -
The 'Tipping Point' in the UK
Posted on October 9, 2003 | No CommentsPaidContent.org features a transcript of the speech that Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, gave on Monday to the Royal Television Society: “What we are witnessing at the moment in the UK is, I believe, a tipping point. As more people have digital TV in the UK than don’t, and as more homes are already connected to... -
The Independent Review of BBC Online's Market Impact
Posted on October 8, 2003 | No CommentsAnyone who is following the controversy over whether or not the BBC should be allowed to compete online with commercial UK news organizations should find useful the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media, and Sport web page that offers downloadable (PDF format) copies of the independent review of BBC Online’s Market Impact Assessment, provided by KMPG consulting to the BCC. -
Internet Users by Nation
Posted on October 7, 2003 | No CommentseMarketer, in a story about RedSheriff’s report about the top Australian Web sites by traffic, presents this interesting bar chart displaying both the sheer numbers of consumers online in major countries plus the percentage those users represent of their national population. [One of the reasons we subscribe to eMarketer's daily newsletter is that company's excellent charts.] RedSheriff’s “report on Internet... -
Baseball League Offers Complete Game Downloads
Posted on October 7, 2003 | No CommentsWho gets the rights to offer downloads of a major American sport? The that sports’ league itself. Major League Baseball is offering downloads of this year’s US baseball quarterfinal and semifinal games, plus video clip of highlights from regular season games. Each quarterfinal or semifinal game clip costs US$3.95, is approximately 400-megabytes to 600-megabytes in size, and is in RealOne...