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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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Mobile Phone Publisher/Broadcasting Archive
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True Mobility: GPRS, WiFi, and Bluetooth all in Hand
Posted on November 15, 2004 | No CommentsWhen I emphasize how important mobile devices will soon become to online publishers , I speak from the experience of a user. I’m on the road about 14 days each month, and I can now leave my laptop at home. In August 2002, I began replacing my Sony Viao laptop with a Pocket PC Phone manufactured by HTC of Taiwan... -
Mobile and Digital Edition Ideas from 'Beyond the Printed Word'
Posted on November 4, 2004 | 1 CommentThe annual IFRA/WAN/FIPP Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference was held in Prague yesterday and today. A summary of the presentations is available from WAN and there is an interesting conference moblog. Here from the conference (my thanks to the IFRA and WAN summaries) are some interesting ideas about mobile and digital editions: -
US Magazine to Launch Free/Paid SMS Celebrity News Service
Posted on October 13, 2004 | No CommentsUS Magazine later this month will launch a subscription SMS service for celebrity junkies, reports Technology Marketing magazine. US is targeting this service at educated, relatively affluent, North American women with an average age of 32 who live in metropolitan areas. Called ‘US to the Minute’, the text messaging service will send breaking entertainment news headlines free of charge to... -
Half of Mobile Phones Now Have Internet Access
Posted on August 11, 2004 | 1 CommentA Mobinet report says that 49% petrcent of mobile phone users worldwide have Internet access (eMarketer has a story about it). Mobile Internet access is 80 percent in Japan, 47 percent in Europe, and 37 percent in North America. Mobinet is a project between A.T. Kearney and Cambridge University’s Business School and the survey is basd upon 4,500 mobile phone... -
More Prototypes of Rollable E-Paper
Posted on June 8, 2004 | 2 CommentsI keep telling publishers that electronic paper isn’t science fiction but science fact, technologiy that will go into commercial production this decade. I’m particular a fan of the rollable versions. For example, the picture above is of Polymer Vision B&W prototype demonstrated on May 27th at the International Society for Information Display’s trade show in Seattle. (High resolution photos of... -
News Industry a 'No Show' at Wireless Show
Posted on March 22, 2004 | No CommentsMany Many North American media companies plans to deliver news via mobile phones, yet none are exhibiting or on the presentations program at CTIA Wireless 2004> in Atlanta, which with more than 70,000 attendees claims to be ‘the world’s largest conference of the wireless industry’ (despite being only one-third the size of a similar conference held earlier this year in... -
Camera Phones Catalyzing MMS Usage in the U.K.
Posted on March 18, 2004 | No CommentsCamera phonesare revolutionizing is public adoption of Multimedia Message Systems (MMS) in the U.K. The Enpocket Mobile Media Monitor found that during the the past 3 months the number of consumers using MMS surged by 40%. That surge was driven by 18 to 24 year olds of whom 37 percent are now using MMS. Moreover, 18 percent of all mobile... -
Shovelware Online Newspaper Design
Posted on March 17, 2004 | No CommentsSteve Outing has a good story today about most online newspapers’ woefully rigid and cluttered graphical user interfaces, the design equivalent of shovelware. He quotes Howard Finberg of the Poynter Institute (as is Outing) and the Digital Futurist consultancy and Nik Wilets of Morris Digital Works; but mainly quotes graphical designer Alan Jacobson of Brass Tacks Design. I agree with... -
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition on Mobile Phones
Posted on March 4, 2004 | No CommentsTime Warner’s Sports Illustrated Magazine will offer American and Canadian mobile phone users their choices of phone ‘wallpaper’ from the magazines annual Swimsuit edition. SI signed the deal with Summus of Raleigh, North Carolina, a mobile phone technologies applications service provider. -
Music Video Shot Entirely by Camera Phone
Posted on March 4, 2004 | No CommentsThe San Diego band XFYA has produced what apparently is the world’s first music video shot entirely on a camera phone (right). Entitled Haber Get Down from the band’s upcoming album Late Night at Denny’s, the video is of the greatest quality, but it that shows just how quickly new technologies are causing production costs to drop. -
Mobile Marketing Association Issues Code of Conduct
Posted on December 4, 2003 | No CommentsThe Mobile Marketing Association has released its ‘Code of Conduct for Wireless Campaigns‘. We think that online publishers should fit within this code, if not do even better. The MMA Code’s pertinent points: Choice Consumers must “opt-in” to all mobile messaging programs. Consumers may Opt-in to a program by sending a text message, calling a voice response unit, registering on... -
FT to Offer Free & Paid Content to Vodaphone Users
Posted on December 2, 2003 | No CommentsThe Financial Times will offer free and paid content to Vodaphone network mobile phone users in the UK. The format will be WAP. However, users will have free access to FT.com -
'Online' Is Becoming A Phrase of the Past
Posted on November 12, 2003 | 1 CommentA fellow member of the Online News Association mentions that the phrases online news and online publishing won’t make much sense in an increasingly wireless world. Speaking of which, Anil de Melo -
Disney Picks ABC and ESPN Mobile Phones News Apps
Posted on November 5, 2003 | No CommentsThe Walt Disney Internet Group has contracted with Summus, Inc., a North Carolina developer of wireless multimedia applications, to provide Disney’s ABC News and ESPN subsidiaries’ content to users of some the non-GSM wireless networks in the US. Summus’ press release says that the ABC and ESPN applications will be immediately visible whenever those users turn on their phones. the... -
The Mobile Messaging Generation Gap
Posted on November 5, 2003 | No CommentsFastCompany.com features a transcript of the mobile marketing panel yesterday at the Ad:Tech conference in NYC. Did you know that approximately 30 million Americans are using text messaging? That 150 million US mobile phones can receive text messages? Or that 80% of the SMS traffic comes from users who are 12 to 30 year old? If you’re over 30, you...