Changes to the Mediate.com Directory

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by James Melamed December 2011

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The Mediate.com Directory at www.mediate.com/Search and at the top of every page of Mediate.com, is the most utilized mediator directory in the world. Mediate.com now averages over 14,000 daily visitor sessions, with an average session lasting over 22 minutes! If you are a professional mediator, you need to be in the Mediate.com Directory.

Big Changes:

1. Basic Members will no longer appear in the Mediate.com Directory

Effective December 20, 2011, only Premium Members will appear in the Mediate.com Directory. Information on Premium Membership is at www.mediate.com/Membership.

2. Premium Directory Listings can now include a video or second picture.

At no additional charge, Mediate will now include attachments and a video or second picture as part of your directory listing.

3. Update your directory information during December!

Mediate.com Premium Members are asked to update and verify the accuracy of directory information annually during December each year. There is a tutorial for managing your directory listing at www.mediate.com/membership/pg1134.cfm

4. Premium Membership Special Offer

With years of improvement and expansion, and no longer showing Basic Members, the price for Premium Membership is being adjusted as of January 1, 2012 to $24/monthly or $240/annually. Those who pay monthly will see their monthly price adjusted to $24 effective 1/1/2012.

To soften the price increase for Premium Members, we are also offering a one-time opportunity to “pay your membership forward” at the historic annual rate. Thus, if you want to pay your Mediate.com Premium Membership forward for either one year for $199 or for two years for $398, we are offering this opportunity through December 31, 2011. For each year paid forward, 12 months will be added to the expiration of your Premium Membership.

Premium Members, please go to THIS PAGE TO PAY YOUR MEMBERSHIP FORWARD at the historic rate. If you do not pay your Premium Membership forward, you will be invoiced the new regular rate at the time of your next scheduled invoice.

Thanks very much for your continued support of Mediate.com! We are doing everything we can to spread the good word about mediation and to get you mediation cases!

Truly yours,

Jim Melamed, CEO
for Mediate.com

Biography

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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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