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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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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... -
My Thanks to Danny Meadows-Klue
Posted on November 19, 2011 | 1 CommentOne of the few people whose New Media work I loyally follow is the British web publishing pioneer Danny Meadows-Klue. I first met Klue during the mid-1990s when he was online publisher of The Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk). Since that job, he has co-founded the UK and European Interactive Advertising Bureaus (elected their president four times before serving as the first chief executive... -
When “Enormous” is Picayune: the NYTimes.com Paywall
Posted on August 3, 2011 | 11 CommentsThe ‘Reality Distortion Field‘ is a term coined by Apple Computer employees and competitors to describe how the bravado and charisma of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs tends to make his audience overlook otherwise obvious flaws in what he promotes. Job’s Reality Distortion Field works because his audience wants to believe what he says. So too operates The New York Times‘ Reality... -
Why I Won’t Again Judge The EPpy Awards
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsSent by email on July 27, 2011 Dear Ms. McIntosh: Thank you for your company’s invitation to judge the 2011 Editor & Publisher magazine EPpy awards. I’ve been a judge of these awards each year since 1995 and a speaker or panelist at seven of the past 15 annual conferences at which the awards have been presented. However, since Duncan... -
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... -
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). -
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. -
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. -
The Placebo Called Convergence
Posted on June 9, 2010 | 3 CommentsA placebo called the convergence strategy has been willingly swallowed by most media companies and the media industries. -
The Greatest Change in the History of Media
Posted on June 8, 2010 | 7 CommentsWe live amid the greatest change in the history of media. Most media executives fail to recognize it and mistake its traits as the change itself. -
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...
