A Passing of the Mediate.com Editorial Torch


by James Melamed

February 2011

James Melamed After a decade of exemplary service, John Ford, Managing Editor of Mediate.com, is passing the Mediate.com editorial torch to Clare Fowler effective March 1, 2011.

John Helie was the first Managing Editor at Mediate.com from 1996 to 2000. John Ford then assumed the editorial helm for a decade. Clare Fowler becomes the third Managing Editor at Mediate.com in 15 years. Jim Melamed, Mediate.com CEO, will continue to assist Clare in publishing The Mediate.com Weekly newsletter which currently has over 11,000 opt-in subscribers.

Through March 1, 2011, Mediate.com has published nearly 6,500 articles, 2900 news items, and 600 videos. Our web site traffic for the past month is shown at www.mediate.com/Visits and shows over 13,000 daily visitor sessions averaging over 16 minutes.

Mediate.com Sections developed by John Ford are shown at www.mediate.com/Sections. Importantly, John also early developed Mediate.com’s Featured Blogs system at www.mediate.com/Blogs. A sincere “thank you” to John goes out from everyone at Mediate.com for John’s decade of remarkably reliable and competent service!

Clare Fowler, our new Mediate.com Managing Editor, received her Master's of Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law. Clare also coordinated the career development program for The Straus Institute dispute resolution students. She is currently researching her doctoral dissertation on designing dispute resolution systems that will sustain small businesses. In addition to her editorial duties at Mediate.com, Clare coordinates online case management for programs, agencies and courts.

Guidelines for the submission of articles to Mediate.com are at www.mediate.com/articles/guidelines.cfm

Clare Fowler can be reached at editor@mediate.com



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Biography




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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 Jim Hildreth,   Sonora CA  jimhildreth@RealEstateMediation.org      03/01/11 
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First Class and a Gentleman.
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 Luis Miguel ,   Mexico    03/01/11 
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Jim thank you for your clear and precise recognition of John’ work. In addition to your words about John’s remarkably reliable and competent service, I would ad from the point of view of one contributor to mediate, that John had the wisdom to motivate and appreciate mediate contributors. Clare you are very welcome.
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 ken ,   santa monica ca    03/01/11 
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John has done a spectacular job - thank you for your dedication and commitment, it has been a real pleasure working with you! And congratulations Claire, I'm sure you will be a splendid replacement, and if I can assist in any way, please let me know. Best wishes to all, Ken
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