Section Editor's Page

This is a non-paid position. The primary benefit for the Editor is career exposure and the opportunity to contribute to the developement of the conflict resolution field. Mediate.com is a highly visited site. Your editorials will be featured in our 8000+ subscription newsletter.

We have designed a processes to make the task as easy as possible and will provide you with any needed training and support. No advanced Web skills are needed.

We are pleased that you are considering an Editorship, and look forward to hearing more from you.

John Helie and John Ford
Managing Editors Mediate.com

Contents

A.Role and Function of Section Editors
B.Editor's Agreement

A. Role and Function of Section Editors

Our goal is to make information about mediation and conflict resolution available to as wide an audience as possible. The principal way in which we achieve that is through posting quality articles on our web site. For the convienience of the readership, our information is arranged into sections, each section has an Editor and they provide editorial comments, arrange a set of articles from the Mediate library related to their editorial theme and encourage authors to contribute.

You may want to review our guidelines as all contributing editors and authors are asked to follow the protocols and agree to the terms specified there.

All articles are categorized by subject, and can be searched using our topical search tool, or our text based search tool.

As editor your role is to set the tone of your Section as an information resource both for the public and practitioners. Our primary focus is to educate and encourage the public to use mediation and other forms of ADR. We ask you to do this in a number of ways:

• Write editorials that summarize developments and issues in your field
• Familiarize yourself with the current mediate.com content related to your Section.
• Select articles from the mediate.com library to be featured on your Section page
• Solicit quality articles and forward them to the Managing Editor
• Participate in dialogue using our online Forum
• Respond to comments posted in your particular section, or to comments posted in response to a article that covers the subject of your section

As a Section editor you agree to:

1. develop and promote your Section as a valuable source of information for practitioners and the public.
2. write at least 4 editorials per year.
3. select articles to be featured on your Section page, at least 4 times a year
4. solicit information that is relevant to your section, and to forward that information to the Managing Editor.
5. facilitate conversation that pertains to your section, on the Forum. The Forum is essentially a listserve that can be accessed online or through use of email. This will require you to subscribe to the relevant conferences on the web board.
6. Respond to comments posted on the mediate.com web site that pertain to your section or categories.
7. use your email address (yourname@mediate.com) to receive correspondence from your section.

Mediate.com's Obligations
As online publisher we agree to:

1. promote you as an expert in your field, and to display your name, image and web site address on your Section.
2. provide you free of charge with an email pointer with yourname@mediate.com.
3. post articles and editorials you write and recommend
4. discuss any difference we may have with you in an open and collaborative manner, and if necessary to engage an online mediator to help us resolve any disputes.

The views expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., Mediate.com or of reviewing editors.