Networking, marketing, information sharing, conversation, and collaboration: no other online tool delivers more for professionals than the blog.
If discovering how to make the most of blogging is at the top of your list of New Year’s resolutions, then I hope you’ll join my colleague Tammy Lenski and me for “Building Buzz with Blogs: Internet Marketing for Dispute Resolution Professionals (Even If You’re Not a Geek!)“, a teleseminar to be held on four consecutive Mondays in January 2007, from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET., beginning Monday, January 8. Click here to register.
(If you register by the end of the day today, December 31, 2006, you’ll receive the early bird discount. Side benefit: you’ll get to cross one item off that lengthy list!)
My friend Stephanie West Allen, who publishes Idealawg, one of my favorite stops on the internet, together with Julie Fleming Brown of Life at the Bar, came up with Lawyers Appreciate…, an inspired way to close out the year by creating the space for a chorus of voices around the legal blogosphere to express their appreciation.
I was tagged by another friend, Bob Ambrogi. Although it’s far too late to tag three successors as protocol requires, I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute my own appreciation.
As I reflect on the past year and contemplate the arrival of the new one in just a few hours, what I appreciate tremendously right now–as lawyer, as mediator, and as human being–is the community that surrounds me. In the real world where I spend so much of my time, friends, colleagues, and neighbors sustain me. And out here in cyberspace, blogging has brought me in touch with remarkable individuals who inspire me, encourage me, enlighten me, and, most wonderfully, can make me smile.
I appreciate you all–fellow bloggers, readers, friends. Happy new year to you all.
On the last Monday of each year the hard-working and anonymous editor of Blawg Review announces the Blawg Review Awards for the best law blogs in a number of categories.
I feel deeply honored that Online Guide to Mediation was recognized this year as the Best Law Blog by a Legal Mediator.
Among the talented legal bloggers honored this year by Blawg Review were the following mediators or supporters of ADR:
To see the entire list of recipients of the Blawg Review Awards, please be sure to pay a visit to Blawg Review.
Congratulations to all the award winners!
(With many thanks to Blawg Review’s editor not only for your kind recognition of this blog but for all your tireless work to produce Blawg Review each week and your ongoing support of law bloggers everywhere.)
Although traveling is fun, it’s certainly true that there’s no place like home. In both the real world and here in cyberspace, it’s great to be back.
To kick off my return to blogging, I’d like to share with you the latest additions to the World Directory of ADR Blogs:
www.todomediacion.com. www.todomediacion.com is the blog and web site of an enthusiastic and innovative team of mediators based in Seville, Spain, whose practice focuses on family and scholastic mediation, headed up by dispute resolution professional Isabel Medina. From the web site: “Somos un equipo joven de Mediadores con mucho entusiasmo y ganas de aportar nuestro granito de arena para la resolución de conflictos tanto en el seno de la familia como en el los centros escolares. A pesar de nuestra juventud tenemos ya una amplia experiencia en distintos campos de la Mediación. Isabel Medina es la Coordinadora de www.todomediacion.com.”
Sanns Mediation Services Blog. This blog posts information about mediation, arbitration, resolution, and family law in New Jersey. Published by mediator and arbitrator Marvin Schuldiner.
ADR Society at the University of Richmond School of Law Blog. Dedicated to building relationships between students and professionals in the disciplines of arbitration and mediation, the ADR Society of the University of Richmond School of Law publishes a blog which shares information and news of events for members, students, and faculty. The ADR Society provides CLE opportunities for the Virginia area and hopes to promote and further the use of alternative methods through education of both the local community and students.
If you wish to add your blog or someone else’s to the World Directory of ADR Blogs, please let me know. It’s a commercial-free site, and there is no cost to be listed. The Directory has information on submitting your blog and submission guidelines.
It’s that time of year…the time to look ahead, consider the possibilities a new year brings, and decide what will make a big difference to your business and your practice. It’s easy, of course, to make resolutions—it’s keeping them that can be the hard part!
One resolution you can both make and keep is to learn more about the power of the blog. One of the most powerful online tools, blogs can help you promote your business, build your network and boost your web presence. Best of all, they do so at little or even no cost and require no special technical skill or knowledge.
As more and more ADR professionals are discovering, blogs are an ideal online tool for both business marketing and for social interaction, producing conversation, community, and contact with prospective clients and referral sources.
My good friend Tammy Lenski, one of the blogosphere’s most respected ADR bloggers, and I are collaborating on a new program to benefit you, our dispute resolution colleagues. Launching in January 2006, this professional teleseminar program will give blogging newcomers a primer in blogging basics and prepare you to leverage blogging strategies to build your business. Based on what Tammy and I have learned in mentoring numerous other bloggers, we have designed a program with your needs in mind.
“Building Buzz with Blogs: Internet Marketing for Dispute Resolution Professionals (Even If You’re Not a Geek!)” will be held on four consecutive Mondays in January 2007, from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET. Click here to register.
Each session focuses on a key topic to prepare you for blogging success. You’ll have a chance to learn all about:
- Session 1: Build Your Brand with an ADR Blog, January 8
- Session 2: Choose Your ADR Blogging Platform, January 15
- Session 3: Jumpstart Your ADR Blog, January 22
- Session 4: Write a Topnotch ADR Blog, January 29
To participate, all you need is a telephone. With registration, you’ll receive the dial-in information for the call(s), an audio recording of the teleseminar for your future reference, and supporting handouts with resources we recommend to make your blogging experience effective and successful. You may register for the 4-session series (your most cost effective option) or choose from among the teleseminars.
Tammy publishes the critically acclaimed blog, “Mediator Tech“, and is the founder and editor of a new collaborative blogging project, “Mastering Mediation.” I publish this blog, “Online Guide to Mediation” and am the founder and webmaster of the world’s first Directory of Alternative Dispute Resolution Blogs, which tracks and catalogues over 90 blogs from 15 countries.
Click here to register.
