All Things Cahill

About

I’m Mark Cahill – Senior Developer for Premium Websites  at NameMedia, Inc., and was previously the Corporate Webmaster for Atex, the primary supplier of software systems for the Newspaper Industry. This is my site.

At NameMedia I build premium websites like Geek.com, cycling.com, hotcars.com, photography.com and more using Wordpress as a content management and social networking platform.

In the 1980s I wrote for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, and was a project manager for The Stone Company, a large design/build contractor in Eastern Massachusetts.

I started out on the net  in 1995 with Reel-Time, The Internet Journal of Saltwater Flyfishing, which I have for many years run as Managing Editor, which was a combination of Lead/Only Developer and Lead/Only Editor. It was and still is a wild west feel, as we really learned what community on the web is. I love saltwater fly fishing, and given my druthers, that’s what I’d be doing right now.  We were doing social networking in 1995.

The site went on to be called Mark Cahill’s Fishing New England – starting in 1996 which was one of the first sites to use a blog style format. Descending chronological posts, with comments that were submitted via email.

I used to blog at Vario Creative, but since I don’t work with them anymore, I moved my blogging efforts here. It’s better this way – I’m not really looking for anything from anyone here, it’s just an outlet that allows me to write and pontificate on the matters that are important to me.

Reader's Comments

1. jim louderback | April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 am

   Yo mark!

   Just a shout out to say hi, and I’m following you on Twitter (and vice versa).

   Best! Let me know when you are out in CA. Living on the ocean here rocks — almost as good as living on the Atlantic.

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2. Cathy Larkin | September 11th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

   Consider making your twitter ID more prominent on your page, to help synergy with followers between your blog and Twitter. Just an idea from someone who found you blog via @chrisbrogan on twitter, then and RSS’d it (to coina phrase?). Your post on blog expanding and branding tips are great!

   Twitter: @CathyWebSavvyPR
   Cathy Larkin http://www.WebSavvyPR.com

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3. Stephen Tiano | September 12th, 2008 at 7:54 am

   You should build in about 10-12 pixels white space between photos and text.

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4. Mark Cahill | September 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   Thanks – both excellent suggestions that’ll be implementing over the weekend.

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5. A Great Big Social Media Bubble | All Things Cahill | December 30th, 2008 at 11:07 am

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6. madison | June 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

   hi, dad! Whats up? So……can I have an account for All Things Cahill,or the family website,pretty please with 100,000,000,000,000 CHERRYS on top.

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