Mediate.com Enters Eighth Year


by John Helie, James Melamed

January 2003

Mediate.com is now entering its eighth year of operation. Mediate.com was founded by John Helie and Jim Melamed and began formal operations January 1, 1996. Carol Knapp, CTO, and Byron Knapp, Server Administrator, joined the team in 1997. John Ford is the Managing Editor of Mediate.com. Our team is completed by Josh Remis, Web Shop Director; Angie Letney, Customer Service and Billing; and Jamie Moffitt, COO. Angie, Josh and John have been with Mediate.com for 3 years and Jamie just completed her first year. Staff Page.

Randy Lowry, Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and Jamie Moffitt have now joined the Mediate.com Board of Directors (along with Jim Melamed, John Helie and Carol Knapp). Mediate.com is also served by an outstanding Advisory Board.

Mediate.com has continued to steadily grow with 2,253,881 documents viewed in 2002. Our average visitor spends nearly 12 minutes at the Mediate.com site. Approximately 46,000 Mediate.com articles were printed in 2002.

We continue to add new features, highlighted this year by our Dynamic Web Site Package and MediatorDirect Program.

Our Dynamic Web Site System allows you to have a web site of any size that you completely control much like a Word document. See our review. We offer over 60 different web site styles and custom design. We make it easy for you to look great and be found on the web.

Our MediatorDirect Program provided over 19,000 click-throughs to listed mediator web sites during the fourth quarter of 2002! These listings allow you to be displayed at the top of every page of Mediate.com for all visitors from your selected area code(s).

In addition to our over 20 Sections and over 1,000 articles, see our new features Mediation in the News and Google Mediation Search.

For the coming year, we will be introducing our new Affiliate Sales Program, our Featured Family Attorney Program (nearly half of our visitors read materials regarding family and divorce conflict), TrainerDirect Program and streaming audio and video services.

Some of you will remember our original animated logo. For your viewing pleasure, here it is (you should refresh this page to see the animation):

Thanks for your continued support!

John Helie and Jim Melamed
for Mediate.com



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Biography





As one of the founding directors of the Mediation Information and Resource Center, John Helie continues his commitment to dispute resolution and the Internet. John founded ConflictNet in 1989, as a communication, forum and information sharing network for the Conflict Resolution Practitioners community. A trained mediator and facilitator, John has pioneered work being done with online conflict and communication. His interest in conflict resolution and the Internet led to his involvement with RuleNet, an Internet/Web based Regulatory Negotiation Process sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He designed software tools for building and evaluating consensus within the RuleNet project and was the first facilitator to use this technology.
James Melamed
Jim Melamed co-founded Mediate.com in 1996 and has served as CEO of Mediate.com ever since. Mediate.com recently received the American Bar Associations 2010 Institutional Problem Solver Award. Before Mediate.com, Jim founded The Mediation Center in Eugene, Oregon in 1983 and served as Executive Director of the Academy of Family Mediators (AFM) from 1987 to 1993. Jim was also the first President and Executive Director of the Oregon Mediation Association (1985) and received OMA's 2003 Award for Excellence.  Jim has also received the Oregon State Bar Dispute Resolution Section's 2006 Sidney Lezak Award of Excellence and the 2007 John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). Jim's undergraduate degree is in in psychology, with honors, from Stanford University and his law degree is from the University of Oregon.



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