Ben Delaney

Ben Delaney (www.bendelaney.com) has three books and hundreds of articles in print. Ben is a well-respected observer of nonprofit management and marketing, technology, as well as the interface between technology and human activities. Along with many television and radio appearances, he has won multiple awards for marketing and writing, and has been quoted by major media outlets around the world.

Ben Delaney's Nonprofit Marketing Handbook (www.nonprofitmarketingbook.com) won the coveted Platinum Award in the 2014 MarCom Awards competition. MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.

The Nonprofit Marketing Handbook also was named a finalist in the respected Next Generation Indie Book Awards in 2015. This annual event is the largest not-for-profit awards program for independent publishers.

Ben has been been credited with making science and technology interesting and understandable, both in writing and personal presentations. He also has provided many "A+" rated seminars and workshops on nonprofit marketing. His talks around the world have received high marks for being engaging, entertaining, and humorous.

Ben provides organizational leadership and consulting at a strategic level. Over thirty years of executive leadership, marketing, serial entrepreneurship, and evaluation enables him to enhance the effectiveness of mission-driven organizations and social enterprises.

Ben's consulting and writing focus on areas of significant impact for nonprofit organizations:

* Effective communications as part of every nonprofit's strategy for success.

* Use of business best practices to further social and beneficial causes.

* Social enterprise and Corporate Social Responsibility.

* Evaluation, especially building evaluation into new programs

* Leveraging strengths through collaboration

Ben's background includes publishing "CyberEdge Journal" (cyberedge.bendelaney.com) for six years. This newsletter was widely read, with subscribers in more than 40 countries. As the publication of record for the Virtual Reality industry, CyberEdge Journal set a high standard for no-hype reporting on the people, conferences, companies, products and events that created the VR industry in the early 1990's. He also published the annual, industry-standard marketing report, "The Market for Visual Simulation/Virtual Reality Systems" for six years.

Ben's book, "Virtual Reality 1.0 – the 90's" is a in-depth history of the people and products, successes and failures that enabled the current wave of VR excitement to happen. Taken from the pages of CyberEdge Journal, this is the most thorough history of the early years of virtual reality available.

He has served on the Boards of many nonprofits as well as providing leadership in Executive Director roles. He has advised VR and high-tech companies, and continues to be active in both the nonprofit and VR/AR sectors.