Chad Capellman

Current

Founder at Capellman.com

Past

Web Producer, MissingManuals.com at O'Reilly Media
Sr. Producer at Eons.com
Managing Editor at The Media Center at the American Press Institute

Editor at America Online
Senior Editor at Alta Vista
News Editor at PDA Mart
Staff Editor at CBS Sportsline
Producer at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Correspondent/Online Producer at washingtonpost.com
Contributing Writer at The Washington Post
Sports Editor at The Diamondback
Facilities Engineer at Cable News Network

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Education

University of Maryland - College Park
Wheaton High School

Recommended

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Connections

415 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

Chad Capellman’s Summary

http://www.capellman.com/clients.php

Chad Capellman’s Specialties:

Acrobat, AOL Art Press, AOL Rainman, ArcSoft Showbiz, Audacity, ColdFusion, CSS, Dreamweaver CS2, Fantastico, Fireworks, Flash CS3, FTP, Google Maps, Homesite, HotDog, HTML, Image Ready, JavaScript, JW Media Player, Lexis/Nexis, Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Movable Type, MS SQL, Nero Wave Editor, OmniPage Pro, OpenX, Photoshop CS2, PHP, PHP My Admin, PHPBB, Qarbon Viewlet Builder, QuarkXPress, RSS, Smugmug, Sorenson Squeeze, SVNX, Swish, Windows XP, WordPress

Chad Capellman’s Experience

Founder

Capellman.com

(Online Media industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)

Blog emancipators. Web site upgraders. Self-sufficiency enablers.
Do you have a web site that screams out for a new look and better functionality?

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Do you have a wealth of expertise in a particular field, and just need some help getting ramped up online?

Do you want some guidance on how to easily and effectively use tools like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, ShareThis, Google Adsense and other tools to help expand your online presence and your business.

We're here to help.
Web Producer, MissingManuals.com

O'Reilly Media

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

June 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 8 months)

My contributions at O'Reilly included:

- Investigated new CDN, streaming video and mobile video provider
- Attended both 2008 O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo conferences
- Organized "Future of News" session at O'Reilly's 2008 FOO Camp; Recruited "Future of News" panel during the upcoming Tools of Change conference.
- Helped increase missingmanuals.com traffic by more than 40 percent
- Created and shepherded MissingManuals Twitter account
- Initiated succesful plan to monetize Missing Manuals content through white-label partner
- Upgraded Missing Manuals article publishing from 12-year-old CMS to newest version of Movable Type
- Utilized transcription service to increase SEO potential of video content
- Recruited technical reviewers for O'Reilly's Head First Rails book
- Helped oversee development of Missing Manuals screencasts
- Coordinated effort to convert printed Wikipedia: The Missing Manual into Wikipedia.
- Coordinated conversion of book excerpts in DocBook XML to MT
Sr. Producer

Eons.com

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

April 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 3 months)

First editorial hire at Eons.com. In addition to overseeing the editorial direction of the Obits and Fun sections of the Eons.com site, I also played a critical role in the planning, development and implementation of the content management system used for all editorial content on the site.
Managing Editor

The Media Center at the American Press Institute

(Online Media industry)

October 2000 — October 2005 (5 years 1 month)

Oversaw all aspects of the Web site for the American Press Institute, a 60-year-old nonprofit organization devoted solely to training and professional development for the news industry.
- Responsible for development, oversight, and updates to mediacenter.org, businessjournalism.org, learningnewsroom.org and all aspects of americanpressinstitute.org.
- Primary course builder and technical support for API's seminars online.
- Developed flash-based video channel,
- Developed backend of Morph, The Media Center's blog,
- Expanded the site from 12 pages to more network of more than 5,500 pages
- Developed centralized database to promote hundreds of seminar speakers,
- Developed numerous internal Web site admin tools
Editor

America Online

(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

February 2002 — January 2004 (2 years)

Updated video sports highlights; Worked on NFL@AOL editorial team. Edited, published and coordinated news, feature packages and results from 2002 Winter Olympics for pages primarily viewed by AOL's 30 million-plus subscribers.
Senior Editor

Alta Vista

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)

Edited and posted breaking news, sports, technology, entertainment and financial stories. Daily duties included prioritizing, editing and publishing news and photos; apprising Palo Alto, Calif., newsroom on latest developments; periodically oversaw the Ragingbull.com home page, provided frequent stock market updates and wrote daily market summary.
News Editor

PDA Mart

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

April 1999 — March 2000 (1 year)

Wrote, edited and updated corporate and product news concerning Personal Digital Assistants and related software for Delray Beach-based startup division of Softmart Corp.
Staff Editor

CBS Sportsline

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; spln; Online Media industry)

August 1998 — April 1999 (9 months)

Published and edited content for one of the broadest-reaching sports sites on the World Wide Web. Initiated use of macros to expedite HTML coding of articles; wrote and edited copy for Sports in the 20th Century retrospective as well as occasional breaking news articles. 8/98 - 4/99
· An original member of Sportsline's team that updated all sports content on America Online (AOL).
Producer

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive

(Public Company; Online Media industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Correspondent/Online Producer

washingtonpost.com

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

August 1995 — August 1998 (3 years 1 month)

Designed and edited Web pages on nightly basis for one of the nation's most-visited and respected news Web sites. Responsibilities were primarily in writing and editing for the sports section, but also included contributions to style and politics sections, as well as working on special events with the marketing department.
Contributing Writer

The Washington Post

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

August 1994 — January 1995 (6 months)

Wrote news and features on deadline about local athletes and sporting events. Beats included Howard University and American University basketball teams.
Sports Editor

The Diamondback

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry)

July 1992 — August 1994 (2 years 2 months)

Paid position required assigning, editing and writing stories for the University of Maryland's independent student newspaper. Covered every campus sport with a concentration on football and men's basketball. Other positions included managing editor and wire editor.
Facilities Engineer

Cable News Network

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; twx; Broadcast Media industry)

August 1991 — February 1994 (2 years 7 months)

Provided various services throughout the Washington, D.C. bureau that required interaction with reporters and editors. Accompanied and assisted reporters in the field on shoots in and around the Washington, D.C., area.

Chad Capellman’s Education

University of Maryland - College Park

BA , English , September 1991 — May 1998

Remain on board of directors for Maryland Media Inc. as representative to the alumni association.

Activities and Societies:

Diamondback. 'Nuff said.
Wheaton High School

Diploma , 1988 — 1991