Calling all current and would-be ADR bloggers: SOBcon08

Are you thinking about starting a blog as part of your mediation marketing strategy? Have you already begun blogging and want to increase traffic from your target market or learn how to make your blog better?

Then I hope I’ll see you at SOBcon08: Biz School for Bloggers, May 2-4 at The Summit Executive Center in the heart of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. I attended SOBcon07, the conference’s inaugural year, and can tell you without reservation that it was the best conference I’ve attended. Ever. Of any type. [Read more]

Any ACR members who can help me?

Update: Thanks to Florida Mediator Perry Itkin, I now have a high-quality scan of the article. I’m grateful for your generous spirit, Perry!

I’m looking for a favor from any of you who are ACR members and receive ACResolution, the quarterly magazine.

I’m a current ACR member myself, but the fall issue of the magazine never reached me. I’d normally be disappointed to miss an issue, but this time around I’m really disappointed, because there’s an article of mine in there. I’m told it’s hit the stands, so to speak, but haven’t had a chance to see my own article yet.

Many of you know that ACR moved office locations a few weeks ago and their email apparently hasn’t been working for a while. The phone system also doesn’t seem to be working, since their main phone number just rings and rings without anyone picking up or my calls going to voicemail. [Read more]

My holiday gift to fellow mediators

On Christmas morning for the past 18 years, my husband Rod and I have listened to a story written and recorded years ago by radio broadcaster John Henry Faulk.

We’re not big on the shop-til-you-drop approach to the holidays, and it’s one of the reasons we’re so moved by Faulk’s story of real giving in the Christmas season.

To listen to the author’s 1974 recording, click here (if the link doesn’t work on your computer, click on the Faulk link above and you’ll see options to stream in either RealAudio or Windows Audio). [Read more]

Learn how to start a mediation marketing blog

Earlier this year, I teamed up with my friend, mediation colleague, and ADR blogger extraordinaire Diane Levin to produce a 5-part audio program for mediators, Building Buzz with Blogs.

The audio program was recorded in five 1-hour segments during live teleseminars attended by mediators from throughout the U.S.

Diane and I’ve agreed it’s a great time now to bundle the five audio programs into a single package for you at $28.00 U.S.

Learn more and grab your 5-hour mediation blog marketing audio series here. [Read more]

Welcome, LEADR dispute resolvers!

This is a special welcome to participants in Geoff Sharp’s workshop at the LEADR 9th International Dispute Resolution Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Thanks for stopping by!

(If you’re viewing this in a feed reader and can’t see the audio player, just click on the article title to be taken directly to the correct page on Mediator Tech.)

40 adr sites you shouldn’t miss

Geoff Sharp has put together a terrific list of 40 valuable, interesting, informative ADR sites for LEADR’s 9th International Dispute Resolution Conference.

Even if you don’t have the opportunity to benefit in person from Geoff’s paper, which he describes as “a romp through the ADR cyberspace stopping off at some of my favourite places,” your morning just got booked solid with good websites to visit!

Copyright © 2007 by Tammy Lenski. All rights reserved.

2 new additions at mediator tech

Mediator Tech now has two new features, created to help make managing and marketing your ADR practice even better:

The Mediation Marketing Forum

The first new feature is my free Mediation Marketing Forum, where you can ask questions, share ideas, and build dialogue around the marketing and promotion of your own ADR business. [Read more]

Calling all adr bloggers

Mediator Tech will be participating in Blog Action Day on October 15. It’s an initiative to bring the blogging community together for a single day, on a single important issue: The environment.

If you’re a blogger, you can find out how to get involved by visiting Get Involved! And if (when?) you sign up to participate, leave me a comment on this post…I’ll put together a list and links to all ADR blogs that are taking part and share it with you.

For more on going green, check out my posts from earlier in 2007: [Read more]

Fellow Mediators, Help Promote Respectful Communication Online

If you read ACResolution, ACR’s quarterly magazine, then you may already know about RespectPledge.org, a creation of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst.

The genesis of RespectPledge was a series of frightening, anonymous threats made to prominent blogger Kathy Sierra, which ultimately left her living in so much fear she stopped blogging and may never return. Kathy’s awful experience was the fodder for much debate and conversation in cyberspace, with an outcry of support for her and an equally loud outcry about the cowardice and human failings of her threatener.

Now, in his most recent ACResolution column, Colin Rule discusses a new resolution adopted unanimously at the 5th International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution [Read more]

My Declaration of Interdependence

In this time when the U.S. celebrates Independence Day, it seems especially important to celebrate our interdependence now too:

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