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Kyle D. Austin

Consultant, Beantown Media Ventures, LLC.
Boston, MA
Kyle Austin is a marketing, communications and business development consultant, and the founder of Beantown Media Ventures. Throughout his career he has provided communications, marketing and strategic counsel for start-ups, global brands and non-profits, including: Zaarly, SinglePlatform, eHarmony, Sony and One Laptop per Child.

He blogs for the technology, CoLead and CoCreate sections of FC on the start-up scene, the future of marketing and the evolution of media in the digital age.


You can follow him on Twitter @kyledaustin or on his blog at www.kyledaustin.com.

Kyle's News Feed

Becoming Your Own Media Company: 5 Content Marketing Tips Mint and OKCupid used successful content marketing strategies to build their brands, audiences, and ultimately, their acquisition prices. Here's how startups like SeatGeak and KISSmetrics are following in their footsteps. Updated Thu Apr 12, 2012
Facebook + FriendFeed = Real Time Search?? While the FriendFeed acquisition appears to be a Shot at Twitter, Google is in Facebook's crosshairs Posted Tue Aug 11, 2009
Google Creative Commons Search, a Blogger's Dream? Google joined Yahoo! today in creating a filter for searching Creative Commons photos. Should we care? Posted Fri Jul 10, 2009
Qik Secures $5.5 Million in Series C Funding, Dreams of iPhone App Acceptance The 3G S Has Increased Interest in Mobile Video and Companies Like Qik. Now if Qik could just get an App on the iPhone.... Posted Thu Jul 9, 2009
The Launch of Mediaite.com Further Blurs the Line Between Editorial and Advertising The Washington Post's Salon Fallout and the Launch of Mediaite.com have brought attention to the blurring lines between "Church and State" Posted Tue Jul 7, 2009
Bringing the Twittersphere to Your Content with Tweetboard With 18 Million Users and as Many as 300 Tweets per Second, Twitter Comes to a Site Near You Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009
Ustream Brings Live Video to Facebook The TV Audience of the Future? It May be Facebook Posted Thu Jun 25, 2009
Iranian “Correspondents” File by Twitter and YouTube Does Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran? Posted Sun Jun 14, 2009
5 Marketing Tips and Tools for Making a Connection with LinkedIn While Social Network Ad Sales Slow, LinkedIn Presents Marketers New Opportunities to Reach a Powerful Demographic Posted Fri May 15, 2009
5 Tips for Marketing on Facebook's New Pages New Twitter-Like Features Make Facebook a Marketers' Haven Posted Thu Mar 12, 2009
10 Questions that Media Companies Should Know the Answer To Posted Wed Oct 29, 2008
Blackout Beginning for TBS: Could they have responded on the Web or via Mobile Devices? Fans across the nation (especially Red Sox Nation), many whom had just sat through Turner Broadcasting System’s (TBS) pregame for Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) American League Championship Series (ALCS), prepared for the fist pitch between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday night – only to be greeted by a sitcom, which stopped airing new shows more than six years ago. Posted Sun Oct 19, 2008
Joe the Plumber Gets His Fifteen Minutes on the Tube and on the Web Posted Thu Oct 16, 2008
Can the Wisdom of the Crowds Help Us Through the Downturn? As mainstream media becomes more open to tapping into the blogosphere and even the Twittersphere during this collapse; news and analysis are becoming two-way conversations. Posted Thu Oct 9, 2008

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