About
Since 1995, Chad Capellman has been working in and contributing to a wide range of web sites as a writer, editor, producer and backend engineer.
He started online at Washingtonpost.com where he learned enough HTML to be dangerous and productive while working various shifts for the sports department. He moved on to stints as a web producer at Sportsline.com, AltaVista.com, PDAMart.com and America Online.
He spent five years at The Media Center at the American Press Institute where he first developed a knack for building content managment systems, blogs and integrating them with various social networking tools and services. While there, he led the web development and has run the site for every We Media event that has included stops in New York (Associated Press), London (BBC and Reuters) and at the University of Miami. At this year's conference he helped engineer the site to allow for real-time conversations through Twitter to appear on the WeMedia.com site and helped enable the #wemedia hash tag to reach the No. 2 "Trending topics" spot each day of the conference, but was felled from reaching the top spot because of the combined efforts of Lent, Ash Wednesday and the beta release of the Safari 4 browser.
Currently a consultant who bills himself as a "Blog Emancipator," Chad recently left a position as a web producer at O'Reilly Media where he frequently devised new ways for O'Reilly's web sites to leverage the power of Twitter.
He started online at Washingtonpost.com where he learned enough HTML to be dangerous and productive while working various shifts for the sports department. He moved on to stints as a web producer at Sportsline.com, AltaVista.com, PDAMart.com and America Online.
He spent five years at The Media Center at the American Press Institute where he first developed a knack for building content managment systems, blogs and integrating them with various social networking tools and services. While there, he led the web development and has run the site for every We Media event that has included stops in New York (Associated Press), London (BBC and Reuters) and at the University of Miami. At this year's conference he helped engineer the site to allow for real-time conversations through Twitter to appear on the WeMedia.com site and helped enable the #wemedia hash tag to reach the No. 2 "Trending topics" spot each day of the conference, but was felled from reaching the top spot because of the combined efforts of Lent, Ash Wednesday and the beta release of the Safari 4 browser.
Currently a consultant who bills himself as a "Blog Emancipator," Chad recently left a position as a web producer at O'Reilly Media where he frequently devised new ways for O'Reilly's web sites to leverage the power of Twitter.