Communication Assessment: Promising Practice For Meeting Management
John Helie
Every medium of communication has advantages and disadvantages, as well as personal preferences. Each has optimal process applications and drawbacks. In other words, they work well for some things and not so well for others. As a part of the convening process, it might be helpful to find out what is available, desireable, and what works for the group. Please view, add and subscribe to:

Mediate.com Enters Eighth Year
James Melamed, John Helie
Mediate.com, founded by John Helie and Jim Melamed, began formal operations January 1, 1996. Mediate.com has continued to steadily grow with 2,253,881 documents viewed in 2002. The typical Mediate.com visitor spends nearly 12 minutes at the site.

Peace and the Internet
John Helie
With the state of the world today, anyone would be hard pressed to make a case that the Internet has had a significant positive impact on world peace. On the other hand, knowing how much the Internet has changed the world, it is hard to imagine that the Internet has not changed the peacefulness of the world. The Internet has changed everything.

Featured Mediator Program
James Melamed, John Helie
Mediate.com is pleased to announce a new Featured Mediator Program for mediators with MediatorDirect listings.

Email Management and Etiquette
James Melamed, John Helie
Email is mainstream. For many of us, email rivals the phone and personal meetings as primary means of delivering professional and business communications and services. Understanding email management capacities, options and best practices is in everyone's best interest.

Internet Relationships Poll
John R. Helie Are you building more or better relationships online? Take this Poll and let us know.

Internet Diplomacy Track
John Helie Conflict Resolution Online Editorial October 2001.

The time has come to consider the Internet as a full fledged Diplomatic Track. It is uniquely different than the Media/News Track and it has a growing significance in Citizen to Citizen diplomacy.

Tips On The Use Of Email
John Helie
Tips that may help you be a more effective participant in an online meeting. Online meetings can be very short or extend over years; can include a few people or thousands.

Emerging Cultural Norms For Electronic Communication
John Helie & John Ford While electronic communication can be inclusive and foster dialogue, the question of when and how to involve others or to get involved is challenging. And because these are early days of electronic communication, cultural norms about acceptable behavior have yet to fully develop.

OnLine Dispute Resolution: Implications for the ADR Profession
Dan DeStephen & John Helie Communication technology impacts all communication. Understand how the Internet is impacting your process and your practice; explore the emerging opportunities of online conflict resolution, and how internet-based tools can be used effectively in your place-based business.

The WWW Main Street of the Future is Here Today
James Melamed & John Helie The Internet and World Wide Web are becoming more important every day, including for mediators and other dispute resolution professionals. Professionals are discovering the web as a means of reaching out to clients and other professionals. In short time, we will be having confidential, ongoing, decision-making meetings on the web.

Technology Creates Opportunities - And Risks
John Helie When it comes to traditional, in-person meetings, facilitators, and mediators are very strategic in thinking about process design. But the use of Internet technologies in dispute resolution - from e-mail exchanges between meetings to mediations taking place entirely on the World Wide Web - requires a new kind of thinking and planning.

Online Dispute Resolution in the U.S.
John Helie & James C. Melamed Report to the ECODIR Montreal Meeting Oct. 3-4 2000