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About Raconteur Media

Raconteur Media Company is a corporation based in Austin, TX. Raconteur has four divisions and offices in Texas and Louisiana.

Raconteur was founded in 2002, as Quicksilver Internet Solutions, by Ryan Gravatt. Gravatt is a reformed newspaper reporter. He has more than 400 bylines to his credit between 1995 - 2000. Building upon this storytelling background, Raconteur uses images, text and video to spread its clients' messages across Web sites, social networks and email.

Consulting

The Consulting Division is the core of the storytelling operation. Ryan Gravatt heads the consulting division. Gravatt's background in journalism, political campaigns and mass communication give him a unique perspective for using the elements of your story to engage audiences.

Raconteur Media's Consulting Division wants to know, Who's Your Audience?, What Are You Asking Them To Do? and Are They Doing It?

Design & Development

The Design & Development division creates and builds the Web sites and applications for our clients. This division works quickly and efficiently to get the sites online so that our clients have a hub of activity for building and reinforcing relationships.

Social Media

Your relationships on social networks help spread your story, which creates opportunities and reinforces relationships. We help our clients with social network engagement strategies so that they have a plan and tactics to keep online relationships fresh. We know what tactics work for starting conversations and engaging audiences to drive them towards a goal to help you.

We measure social reach with our Social Media Monitoring application, and we work with our clients to make sure the time spent sharing their story reaps benefits.

Outreach

Email, online advertising and building relationships with influencers... Outreach is the critical component for telling a story online. We determine the target audience and engage them for our clients. Building an audience is no easy task, and we know how to gather and mobilize people online.

Our Staff

Ryan Gravatt

Ryan Gravatt is an online strategist who specializes in using Web sites, e-mail and search engines to bolster public affairs and public relations campaigns. Mr. Gravatt is recognized as an expert in developing online strategies for crisis communications and grassroots-mobilization planning.

Mr. Gravatt draws upon his experience with communications in public affairs and as a newspaper reporter to integrate the client's online presence into their broader communication plan. He develops and maintains online strategies for Fortune 100 companies, political campaigns, issue-advocacy organizations and membership associations. These clients use Web sites and e-mail messaging for crisis communications, public affairs advocacy, outreach to grassroots supporters or for earned media. Mr. Gravatt was an online strategist for Gov. Rick Perry's 2012 presidential campaign. His focus was on grassroots engagement through social media and email. Mr. Gravatt remains involved as the lead online strategist for Gov. Perry's gubernatorial organization in Texas.

Caitlin Landry

Caitlin Landry has been a social media specialist for Raconteur Media since July 2010. Previous to joining the Raconteur Media team, Caitlin attended Texas A&M University, where she received her degree in Communication, with an emphasis in media & public relations.

At Raconteur, Caitlin works closely with clients to provide the online communication support they need, whether it be reputation management, research & discovery, or monitoring the online conversations surrounding their organization or brand.

Matt Schad

Matt Schad is our lead graphic designer.

Matt has worked at Raconteur for five years.

Megan Whitley

Megan Whitley is the Social Media Division Director for Raconteur Media Company.

With a formal public relations background and more than five years of corporate digital media experience, Megan’s skill set marries traditional communications savvy with online expertise, creating an invaluable set of services for our clients, in a time when social media is a critical catalyst for companies, campaigns and causes. Megan helps develop and execute comprehensive online communications strategies, concentrating on the social media elements. As Director of Social Media for Raconteur, Megan also measures results of our clients online efforts and provides reports that highlight strengths, weaknesses and suggestions for improvement.

Justin Williamson

Justin Williamson is a social media specialist.

Justin works with Raconteur's political clients to monitor social conversations and to suggest engagement strategies online for Facebook, Twitter and other social network properties.

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