Free Teleconferencing Is As Easy as Dialing
June 27, 2007
Eons ago I offered up some ways to teleconference for free. Since a year and a half is a long time in the tech world, it’s time for an update.
Of the three free teleconferencing services I wrote about back in January 2006, all are still in business and still offering free teleconferencing. But I don’t use any of them anymore because I was looking for more features without more cost. For general free conference calling, FreeConference is still a useful service and my faculty department uses it for our telephone meetings.
I look for these features in a free teleconferencing service: [Read more]
My Declaration of Interdependence
June 22, 2007
In this time when the U.S. celebrates Independence Day, it seems especially important to celebrate our interdependence now too:
Keeping Your ADR Website Fresh: How Much Time to Invest
June 22, 2007
How much time should you spend to keep your website’s content fresh?
That’s the good question from one participant in my workshop with Diane Levin at New England ACR’s annual conference a few weeks ago. Diane and I offered up our opinions then, and I’ve continued to ponder the question in order to answer it more thoroughly here.
How can you decide the “right” amount of time to invest in keeping your site attractive to search engines by creating fresh content? I’ve whittled the deciding factors down to these four: [Read more]
More on the Greening of ADR
June 21, 2007
In early May, I wrote an article inviting mediators and other ADR professionals to “go green” and offering some starting resources for the greening of your office and your technology: A Green ADR Resources Roundup.
It’s exciting to see my fellow ADR bloggers jumping on the bandwagon now with articles and strategies of their own. As you might guess, these smart people are doing good stuff too! In case you haven’t seen their contributions to the greening of ADR, here are the ones I know of:
Vickie Pynchon: Mediators Go Green
Geoff Sharp: Mediation Greenies? [Read more]
Mediation Marketing and Management Vault, June 2007
June 18, 2007
The Mediation and Marketing Vault is a monthly feature that dips into the archives and shares still-relevant articles from one year ago. If you’re new to Mediator Tech, I hope you find these helpful!
Your ADR Marketing Strategy: Avoid the Opt and Dropped Trap: Advice for avoiding a haphazard approach to mediation and ADR marketing.
Backing Up: Protect Your Business Data: Tips for making data backup a breeze. I’ll be writing an update post about this soon.
When a Mediator Should Not Be Neutral: Yes, indeed! [Read more]
How to Find Wireless Connections on the Road
June 14, 2007
Are you a road warrior? Or do you like to get out of the office with your computer, maybe find a comfy chair at Panera or Starbucks and surf the web?
If so, you may be interested in the new service WeFi, which aims to help you find reputable and reliable wireless access points in areas you don’t know well. In Find a Better Connection with WeFi, Download Squad notes, [Read more]
ADR Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising and Branding: How They Differ
June 11, 2007
Mediation and ADR marketing. PR. Advertising. Branding. Do these terms blend together in your mind?
An elegantly simple series of graphics at The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding will help shed light on the differences for you.
Found via my new Chicago friend, Muhammad at Pronet Advertising. Happy graduation, Muhammad!
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When All Else Fails, There’s Rock, Paper, Scissors
June 8, 2007
All right, this falls into the category of “who knew?” And it seems the perfect post for a summer Friday.
There is a World Rock Paper Scissors Society. Their tagline is, “Serving the needs of decision makers since 1918.” They even have a world championship, slated for October…you can buy tickets to the event. Really, who knew? Or am I the last to know of the latest hot new sporting event?
Now I know where to turn next time a megabucks mediation gets stuck on the last $5,000.
Found via TechCrunch. Thanks…I think.
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Great Tech Tools to Market and Manage ADR
June 7, 2007
Back in April 2006 I shared some of my favorite Tech Tools for Mediators. And thanks to the pleasure of co-leading a New England ACR workshop last week with Diane Levin, I had an opportunity to update my list and merge it with some of Diane’s favorites.
The result was a handout we offered participants of our workshop, ADR in the 21st Century: Easy Tech Tools to Market and Manage Your Practice, which I wrote about last week.
Diane and I put our heads together and decided we should share our handout with anyone who would like to have it. [Read more]
One More Vote…Pretty Please?
June 7, 2007
Thanks to your votes in the semi-finals, my private office is a finalist in Lifehacker’s Coolest Workspace Contest! Wow, thanks for the support, my friends.
Now the final vote is underway and I’m hoping you’ll vote for my office space one more time. You can vote in less than a minute by visiting the Lifehacker Contest Page before early afternoon on Friday. My office space is the one they’ve named “Making Space” (purple walls, lots of natural wood).
Thank you!
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