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Expose yourself to ideas: celebrate Banned Books Week

Posted on September 30, 2008
As negotiators and mediators know from experience, knowledge and information are power. That’s true for all of the negotiations in life we face — the political, the transactional, and the personal. What better way to celebrate access to information than by honoring Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read, and is sponsored by [...

A negotiator walks into a bar: a joke teaches a lesson on problem solving

Posted on September 24, 2008
A friend recently sent me the following joke: During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the director how to determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalised. “Well,” said the director, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient, and ask him [...

Will mediate for beer: as times get tough, locals turn to bartering

Posted on September 16, 2008
At The Pigs, a pub in Norwich, England, locals can trade food — produce they’ve grown or game they’ve caught — for beer. According to the sign posted in the pub, “If you grow, breed, shoot or steal anything that may look at home on our menu, then bring it in and let’s do [...

New blog Settlement Perspectives puts spotlight on resolving disputes and getting the deal done

Posted on September 15, 2008
Attorney John DeGroote has hit the ground running with the launch of his blog, Settlement Perspectives. Although his blog is just five posts old as of today’s date, John has already demonstrated the exemplary writing and skillful storytelling that are the mark of the successful blogger...

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Small Business Trends hosts Blawg Review 177

Posted on September 15, 2008
Anita Campbell, editor of Small Business Trends, an online publication covering trends and new directions that affect the small business owner, describes herself as “an entrepreneur at heart almost her entire life”. Anita really understands that small business owners have big ambitions and wants to help them succeed...

Envision word peace with Wordle, a word cloud generator

Posted on September 10, 2008
I was fascinated last week by the word clouds — graphic depictions — of the convention speeches of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain that appeared on so many web sites and blogs. Word clouds are visual representations of words. The larger the word in the image, the more frequently it appears on the site...

Learn easy tech tips to market, manage your mediation practice at November 14 workshop with Tammy Lenski, Diane Levin

Posted on September 09, 2008
If you’re in New England on Friday, November 14, 2008, please join me and mediation marketing expert Tammy Lenski, author of Making Mediation Your Day Job, for a fun, interactive afternoon as we share affordable, simple ways to put technology to work when you market and manage your ADR practice...

Judgment call: everyone benefits when decision making is improved

Posted on September 09, 2008
In a recently published paper, experts in decision making Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max Bazerman asked an important question, “How Can Decision Making Be Improved?” (PDF): We propose that the time has come to move the study of biases in judgment and decision making beyond description and toward the development of improvement strategies...

International Literacy Day celebrated at Blawg Review No. 176

Posted on September 09, 2008
My son graduated in June from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a double major in legal studies and philosophy.� As you might imagine, he’s an avid reader who enjoys the lively exchange of ideas, particularly around our family’s kitchen table during visits home...

Sidetaker lets bickering couples submit disputes to court of public opinion

Posted on September 06, 2008
If you seek proof of civilization’s decline, look no further than Sidetaker, a site that lets the public be the judge in spats between quarreling lovers. Don’t bother to seek nuance or middle ground here; there’s plenty of blame and fingerpointing for couples bickering over everything from toilet flushing habits to illicit affairs...

International Mediation Institute honors mediation blogs from across the globe

Posted on September 03, 2008
The International Mediation Institute (IMI), a public policy initiative creating international competency standards for certifying mediators, has conferred a great honor upon a select group of bloggers. IMI has created a special section on its web site to recognize the work of mediation bloggers from countries around the world...

New issue of The Complete Lawyer and its ADR column, The Human Factor, now available

Posted on September 03, 2008
Now available online is the latest edition of The Complete Lawyer, a web-based magazine focusing on quality of life and career satisfaction for attorneys, along with its special ADR column, ?The Human Factor?. This issue of The Complete Lawyer discusses “The Brave New World of Associates...

5 blogs and 5 blawgers

Posted on September 03, 2008
To meme or not to meme, that is the question. Memes are single units of culture — ideas, behavior, customs, or trends — transmitted virally from one individual to the next.� On the internet, memes often spread and propagate through blogs, whose very nature makes them ideal for the viral transmission that memes depend upon to [...

Daydreams lead to creativity, productive problem solving, contrary to popular belief

Posted on August 31, 2008
…proper daydreaming - the kind of thinking that occurs when the mind is thinking to itself - is a crucial feature of the healthy human brain. It might seem as though our mind is empty, but the mind is never empty: it’s always bubbling over with ideas and connections...

Don?t pee on my shoes and tell me it?s raining: more truth, less fiction, in debate on mandatory arbitration

Posted on August 29, 2008
Earlier this year, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s affiliate, the Institute for Legal Reform, cranked out a press release about a recent poll it commissioned that purported to prove that a majority of likely voters would overwhelmingly support mandatory arbitration...

Barack Obama: mediator to a divided nation

Posted on August 29, 2008
In the days after the towers fell on September 11, 2001, Americans everywhere came together to honor the dead and demand justice. The world stood beside us, sharing our shock and grief. That unity proved short-lived. “You’re either with us or against us” became U...

Channel surfing at MediationChannel.com: a round-up of links

Posted on August 28, 2008
A quick round-up of stories for your reading pleasure: They say that it’s better to give than to receive. In part that’s because of the pleasure we experience in giving to others. Science Daily reports that monkeys derive the same pleasure from giving that humans do...

Online Guide to Mediation has moved to its new home at MediationChannel.com!

Posted on January 01, 2008
It's official -- Online Guide to Mediation has a new home and a new name -- at Mediation Channel.com.After several months of technical difficulties with Blogger, the blog publishing platform I've relied on for the past three years, I decided it was high time to make the move to my own domain name...

2007 highlights: the year's best from Online Guide to Mediation

Posted on December 31, 2007
Year's end is a time for looking forward and also for looking back, as we take stock of where we've been, while we consider the journey ahead of us.As part of that annual tradition, I've pulled together the posts from 2007 that have been the most frequently visited, the ones that drew the most comments and emails, or that are simply my favorites...

A happy New Year message from Online Guide to Mediation

Posted on December 31, 2007
Please click here to view a New Year's Eve message from me to you.Best wishes to everyone!

New additions, New Year's updates for World Directory of ADR Blogs

Posted on December 29, 2007
Change is good.And change is coming to the World Directory of ADR Blogs, my online project tracking and cataloging blogs worldwide on mediation, negotiation, ADR, conflict resolution, negotiation, and people-focused innovations in the law.Beginning on the first of the year, the World Directory of ADR Blogs will itself become a blog, with its own RSS feed so that visitors can subscribe easily for news and updates...

Blawg Review Nominations

Posted on December 29, 2007
Blawg Review, acknowledged recently by the American Bar Association as one of the top 100 law blogs, is unique among blogs. Hosted each week by a different legal blog, no better source exists for current trends, new ideas, highlights of top news stories, and stimulating repartee for the legal community...

Lawyers Appreciate... democracy

Posted on December 29, 2007
Memes are ideas or units of cultural information transmitted, as viruses are, from one individual to the next. Blogs provide a rich medium for memes to flourish in, as bloggers invite (or incite) each other to comment on and disseminate them.Stephanie West Allen, who publishes Idealawg, a blog that honors the creative spirit within the practice of law, and Julie Fleming Brown of Life at the Bar, have announced the second annual celebration of Lawyers Appreciate...

In celebration of the ADR blogosphere: blogging transforms how we talk about dispute resolution

Posted on December 11, 2007
In less than a month I'll be celebrating Online Guide to Mediation's third anniversary. Looking back, I marvel at how radically things have changed since my early days of blogging.With all things web-related, change occurs rapidly and time accelerates...

Test your knowledge of world geography

Posted on December 11, 2007
Maybe you consider yourself knowledgeable about foreign affairs. Or count yourself a seasoned traveler with the passport stamps to prove it. Or perhaps you pride yourself on your cultural awareness.Put your internationally attuned wits to the test with the interactive Traveler IQ Challenge to see how well you know your world geography...

Out of the mouths of babes: a child's guide to the law

Posted on December 10, 2007
I have a confession. The obituaries are perhaps the part of the newspaper I enjoy reading most.Why? I can think of many reasons. Obituaries celebrate a life well lived. They return history to a human scale, reminding us that history is not shaped by emperors, generals, or queens alone, but also by ordinary people against the backdrop of large-scale events...

Blawg Review #138 honors Human Rights Day

Posted on December 10, 2007
De Novo hosts Blawg Review #138, this week's edition of Blawg Review, the weekly review of the best in legal blogging.This presentation of Blawg Review celebrates Human Rights Day, December 10, which commemorates the adoption of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly:All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Online Guide to Mediation Link Round-up | December 7, 2007

Posted on December 07, 2007
Here's the latest round-up of conflict resolution and negotiation links for mediators:The Telegraph discusses the benefits of negotiation training in "The art of being a winning negotiator". Lessons learned include "Don't squander trust" and "build relationships with the other party"...

"The Point": web site leverages the power of numbers to solve problems

Posted on December 06, 2007
They say that there's strength in numbers. And that's the premise of a new web site, The Point, which bills itself as "a social platform for people to solve problems they can't solve alone."Visitors to the site can register and create campaigns to encourage others to join their cause...

Premier ADR web site Mediate.com adds new feature with global focus

Posted on December 06, 2007
Mediate.com, the world's leading online resource for news, information, and bleeding-edge thinking in the field of ADR, has added a new feature.Mediation Today highlights the importance of mediation, posting stories from around the globe that demonstrate the many ways in which men and women confront and address disputes -- and the continuing relevance of the work that the conflict resolution field is engaged in.

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