About

We want to be your partners in your online success

Watershed Online Media is based in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and serves clients throughout eastern Massachusetts, the Merrimack Valley, and beyond. We are a full-service agency providing content, design, technical, and production expertise for a range of online media: websites, e-commerce sites, blogs, forums, webcasts, e-publications, internet ad design, and more.

WOM principals Kate Broughton and Don Meskie met in 2001 while working on political and community outreach projects in Amesbury, MA, where each of them resides. Since that time, their collaboration on a number of successful online endeavors – including a variety of websites, community forums, blogs, and webcasts – prompted them to formalize their working relationship and launch Watershed Online Media in January of 2008.

Don and Kate bring a congenial, fresh, and welcome skill set to the crowded world of web design and internet consulting. Don’s background as a well-traveled high-tech educator, and Kate’s credentials as a nationally published writer, designer, and marketing analyst, combine to give clients a level-headed suppport team that cuts through techno-babble and communicates in everyday language.

As professionals, parents, and active participants in community betterment, Kate and Don know how to juggle deadlines and multiple responsibilities. They work quickly, price their work fairly, complete a job on time (or ahead of it), and provide the best possible customer service.

When they are not helping companies and organizations build their online identities, Don and Kate can be found in the kitchen with their families, whipping up a batch of country-style ribs, or outdoors, enjoying the natural attractions of the Merrimack River watershed area for which their business was named.

DON MESKIE holds a Masters in Technical Education from Lesley College, a BS in History from Boston College, and credits for numerous IT-related courses at UMass, including multimedia, java, game and video production, and web design.

Thanks to his 12+ years serving as the website design instructor and webmaster at Shawsheen Valley Regional Technical School, he is an articulate and clear communicator with a comprehensive knowledge of cutting-edge technology. He has produced and edited numerous promotional videos, and has coached a succession of prize-winning design and tech prep teams at the SkillsUSA State and National competitions. He is the co-founder and producer of the All About Amesbury community access television program and online forum.

KATE BROUGHTON is a designer and nationally published writer who has kept in step with communications and marketing technology throughout her professional life. A former senior editor at Boston Magazine and contributor to The Boston Globe, she worked as the market research director for Brady & Paul Communications, serving clients such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The American Journal of Nursing, the Christian Science Publishing Society, Kalmbach Publishing, and The Writer magazine. Her talents have been tapped for numerous internet ventures, including Microsoft Sidewalk, and the innovative Streetmail – the pioneer of online community publishing. She is the founder and publisher of PortFolio magazine (2003-2007), which she successfully transitioned to an online webzine, PortArtisan, prior to joining Don Meskie in Watershed Online Media.