Mediate.com Celebrates 200th Newsletter

by James Melamed
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James Melamed Mediate.com is sending out its 200th bi-weekly newsletter on September 5. We hope that you agree this is a notable accomplishment.

Our newsletter's founding editor was John Helie. John Ford has been serving as Managing Editor for the last 5 years. Both Johns have done ground-breaking work, creating all that is Mediate.com from whole cloth.

If you review the testimonials submitted in support of this accomplishment, I believe you will come to see that Mediate.com is more than just a web site and The Mediate.com Newsletter is more than just a newsletter. Our combined efforts represent the publishing and continuous availability of over 3,000 free articles and resources at Mediate.com. Mediate.com now represents many of the critical ongoing discussions of our field and is perhaps our best means of educating our global public.

We have elevated and expanded our coverage of Mediation News (thanks to Keith Seat) and developed Mediate.com Featured Blogs. We now offer over 70 leading mediator interviews online and we are continuing to expand our international coverage. I have summarized how (at least in my mind) Mediate.com serves mediators at www.mediate.com/articles/how.cfm.

Please take a moment and review the many testimonials that have been submitted as part of our celebration. We hope that you agree they are most impressive and deserved.

Thanks to all of our authors for your wonderful contributions and ongoing support! We have accomplished something very special through our sustained and combined efforts.



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Biography



Jim Melamed co-founded Resourceful Internet Solutions (RIS) and Mediate.com in 1996. Before this, Jim founded The Mediation Center in Eugene, Oregon in 1983 and served as Executive Director of the national Academy of Family Mediators from 1987 to 1993.

Jim is past-Chair of the Oregon Dispute Resolution Commission and a member of the Oregon State Bar. Jim teaches Mediation at the Pepperdine University School of Law's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Jim was the first President and Executive Director of the Oregon Mediation Association (1985) and received the OMA's 2003 Award for Excellence. 

Jim 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.

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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