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WAYS MEDIATE.COM BENEFITS MEDIATORS:
Over 3,000 Articles & Resources
Mediate.com offers mediators and the public over 3,000 articles and resources free of charge. These articles are posted chronologically on the Mediate.com home page (click link at bottom to continue chronological listing). Articles are also grouped into approximately 25 Sections at www.mediate.com/Sections .
Mediate.com Featured Blogs
Mediate.com has identified approximately 15 most capable negotiation, mediation and dispute resolution blogs. These Featured Blogs are listed at www.mediate.com/Blogs . We regularly comb these featured blogs for their best postings and republish these at Mediate.com. A Blog Archive is also now provided.
Mediate.com Search System
The Mediate.com Search System is located at www.mediate.com/Search.cfm. This system now searches all Mediate.com content, including articles, news, blog postings and video. Searches can be done by person, topic or text, or a combination. Check out our search system!
News, Jobs & Video Center (membership)
Mediate.com has offered www.mediate.com/MediationNews since 1997. Over the past couple of years, Keith Seat, our News Editor, has taken Mediation News to a whole new level. We halso have our News Archive (at the bottom of Mediation News). Mediate.com also features the most active Job Board in our field at www.mediate.com/Jobs and our amazing Video Center is described at www.mediate.com/Inside . All of these special content sections are available to Mediate.com Members only.
Locate A Mediator Directory & Qualifications Disclosure (membership)
With over 15,000 daily visitors to Mediate.com and the top Google ranking for “Mediation” “Mediator” and “Mediate,” Mediate.com’s Locate A Mediator (LAM) Directory is the “go to” mediator directory on the Internet. Full information is at www.mediate.com/Membership . Information on our voluntary Qualifications Disclosure Program is at www.mediate.com/articles/review.cfm.
Dynamic Web Site Package
Our Dynamic Web Site Package includes a Mediate.com Membership and a fully scalable web site at Mediate.com or at your own domain. Full information on the web site package is at www.mediate.com/Web. Our package includes everything you need, including training and ongoing tech support, at one set price. You will not find a better web site system anywhere!
Super Visibility on Mediate.com
Assuming that you have a quality web site in place, be that a Mediate.com Dynamic Site or another, the absolute best way to drive local (the right) traffic to your web site is with Mediate.com Area Code and State Marketing. MediatorDirect lists a limited number of mediators at the top of every page of Mediate.com for all visitors from anr area code. See www.mediate.com/Direct . Our State Banners appear on ever page of Mediate.com for every visitor from your state. See www.mediate.com/Banners.
Personalized Newsletters
Mediate.com now offers three (3) newsletters for your personalization and sending to clients and referral sources. These newsletters are “Mediation News for the 21st Century,” edited by Keith Seat; “Workplace Resolution News,” edited by John Ford; and “Family Resolution News,” edited by John Reiman. Full information on our fantastic personalized newsletters is at www.mediate.com/NewsService .
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.
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.
