Introduction
The Internet - The Ocean We Now Swim In
- how many email?
- how many not?
- how many have web sites?
- how many not?
- communicating with clients and colleagues
- sending attachments
- track changes
- refer to web resources
The Move Online
- The Price of Gas
- Health Care
- The Courts
- Discovery
- Child Support Guidelines
- Parenting Plan Center
- Dispute Resolution
Compared to What?
- Not mutually exclusive
- Best comparison not necessarily to face to face perfection
- Best comparison may be to nothing
- The scalability of mediation (time/forum)
New Opportunities for Mediation
- Whole new levels of access (goodbye digital divide)
- What the younger generation expects
- New niches: e.g., divorce modification, time-share / resort property disputes
- My divorce mediation experiment - when communicate - nature of communication
- Internet can help mediators do our job better
- Internet can help us be most relevant to daily life
New Concepts to Consider
- Modalities of communication - use strategically
- False worship of real time video
- Asynchronous and Synchronous Communication
- Digital Accountability
- 365/24/7
