Comments on: In celebration of the ADR blogosphere: blogging transforms how we talk about dispute resolution http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/ News and ideas about mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and law Sat, 17 May 2008 07:04:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dina Lynch, ADRPracticeBuilder.com http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-245 Dina Lynch, ADRPracticeBuilder.com Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:37:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-245 Add my thanks, too, Diane. <br/><br/>Like Geoff and Vicki, I'm truly grateful to have you as a blogging mentor and friend.<br/><br/>Our early conversations about how powerful blogging could be for the field and mediators remain as meaningful for me now as when I launched <a HREF="MediationMensch.com" REL="nofollow"> Mediation Mensch</a> in 2005.<br/><br/>When I get in a rut, as all blogger do, a single dose of your elegant writing which sparkles with clear-headed analysis and gentle humor re-energizes me.<br/><br/>Raising a glass of bubbly to you and OGM. Thanks for everything, and Happy Anniversary!<br/><br/>Dina Beach Lynch<br/><br/>PS I'm in for ADR BLOGCAMP 2008! Add my thanks, too, Diane.

Like Geoff and Vicki, I’m truly grateful to have you as a blogging mentor and friend.

Our early conversations about how powerful blogging could be for the field and mediators remain as meaningful for me now as when I launched Mediation Mensch in 2005.

When I get in a rut, as all blogger do, a single dose of your elegant writing which sparkles with clear-headed analysis and gentle humor re-energizes me.

Raising a glass of bubbly to you and OGM. Thanks for everything, and Happy Anniversary!

Dina Beach Lynch

PS I’m in for ADR BLOGCAMP 2008!

]]> By: Chris Annunziata http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-244 Chris Annunziata Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:00:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-244 Diane:<br/><br/>Thanks for the nickname. I think.<br/><br/>You keep spreading the link-love and I'll keep telling it like it is.<br/><br/>I have really appreciated all of your helpful advice as I started my bogging adventure. Thanks!<br/><br/>Chris Diane:

Thanks for the nickname. I think.

You keep spreading the link-love and I’ll keep telling it like it is.

I have really appreciated all of your helpful advice as I started my bogging adventure. Thanks!

Chris

]]> By: Editor http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-243 Editor Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:47:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-243 Congratulations on three years of stimulating conversation and thank you for your continuing efforts to bring together the ADR blogosphere, here and on the World Directory of ADR Blogs www.adrblogs.com.<br/><br/>We share in the excitement of the ever expanding ADR blogosphere.<br/><br/>Best,<br/>The National Arbitration Forum Blog Editor Congratulations on three years of stimulating conversation and thank you for your continuing efforts to bring together the ADR blogosphere, here and on the World Directory of ADR Blogs http://www.adrblogs.com.

We share in the excitement of the ever expanding ADR blogosphere.

Best,
The National Arbitration Forum Blog Editor

]]> By: Anonymous http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-242 Anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:20:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-242 What a terrific update on ADR blogging. Thanks very much for including me. Diane, you embody the true spirit of ADR and have done so much to further both that spirit and ADR in the blogosphere. You are a pioneer in so many ways.<br/><br/>I DO like Geoff's idea—an ADR bloggers' gathering. Let's plan it! And in 2008, not 2009. What a terrific update on ADR blogging. Thanks very much for including me. Diane, you embody the true spirit of ADR and have done so much to further both that spirit and ADR in the blogosphere. You are a pioneer in so many ways.

I DO like Geoff’s idea—an ADR bloggers’ gathering. Let’s plan it! And in 2008, not 2009.

]]> By: A Proud Member of the Levin Posse -- Vickie Pynchon http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-241 A Proud Member of the Levin Posse -- Vickie Pynchon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:01:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-241 Diane not only taught me how to use html code when I started using "blogger" in the dark ages of mid-2006, but more importantly taught me the ethos of blogging -- cooperation and reciprocity, which not just coincidentally happens to be the ethos of mediation.<br/><br/>I, frankly, don't know what any of my blog efforts would be without Dinae. Everytime I tell new or wannabe bloggers that the blogsophere will greet you with a welcome wagon as if you'd just moved in to a small mythical Iowa town, it is Diane I have in mind. <br/><br/>I started blogging (i.e., talking to myself) in June of '06. I don't think the month had ended before Diane arrived with virutal flowers for my new garden, a list of local merchants, advice about my neighbors and suggestions for learning how to become a good member of my new community.<br/><br/>Then Diane invited me to join her local neighborhood organization, the World Directory of ADR Blogs, and the neighborhood sprung to life, like the past does at the commencement of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.<br/><br/>Diane and other seminal (ovular?) bloggers have fixed the problem articulated by Swann in the first chapter of that epic novel.<br/><br/>"The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three of four books in a lifetime gives us anything that is of real importance.<br/><br/>"Suppose that, every morning, when we tore the wrapper off our paper with fevered hands, a transmutation were to take place, and we were to find inside it - oh! I don't know; shall we say Pascal's Pensees?"<br/><br/>There are no "fresh trivialities" (though there is certainly humor) in the Online Guide to Mediation. With each new post, Diane delivers the transmutation for which Swann yearned nearly a century ago. <br/><br/>And I do not exaggerate even a little. Diane not only taught me how to use html code when I started using “blogger” in the dark ages of mid-2006, but more importantly taught me the ethos of blogging — cooperation and reciprocity, which not just coincidentally happens to be the ethos of mediation.

I, frankly, don’t know what any of my blog efforts would be without Dinae. Everytime I tell new or wannabe bloggers that the blogsophere will greet you with a welcome wagon as if you’d just moved in to a small mythical Iowa town, it is Diane I have in mind.

I started blogging (i.e., talking to myself) in June of ‘06. I don’t think the month had ended before Diane arrived with virutal flowers for my new garden, a list of local merchants, advice about my neighbors and suggestions for learning how to become a good member of my new community.

Then Diane invited me to join her local neighborhood organization, the World Directory of ADR Blogs, and the neighborhood sprung to life, like the past does at the commencement of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.

Diane and other seminal (ovular?) bloggers have fixed the problem articulated by Swann in the first chapter of that epic novel.

“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three of four books in a lifetime gives us anything that is of real importance.

“Suppose that, every morning, when we tore the wrapper off our paper with fevered hands, a transmutation were to take place, and we were to find inside it - oh! I don’t know; shall we say Pascal’s Pensees?”

There are no “fresh trivialities” (though there is certainly humor) in the Online Guide to Mediation. With each new post, Diane delivers the transmutation for which Swann yearned nearly a century ago.

And I do not exaggerate even a little.

]]> By: Jan Frankel Schau http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-240 Jan Frankel Schau Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:44:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-240 Diane: I've been struggling for the past few months on the Shakespearean dilemma of "to blog or not to blog". I haven't touched my own blog, Schau's Mediation Insights, since August! I have made some practice changes and decided it was not worth the considerable effort to my practice development. Your post this morning reminded me why it is worth perservering and how much the blogosphere contributes to our collective wisdom and support! Happy Holidays and Congratulations on reaching this third anniversary. Jan Schau Diane: I’ve been struggling for the past few months on the Shakespearean dilemma of “to blog or not to blog”. I haven’t touched my own blog, Schau’s Mediation Insights, since August! I have made some practice changes and decided it was not worth the considerable effort to my practice development. Your post this morning reminded me why it is worth perservering and how much the blogosphere contributes to our collective wisdom and support! Happy Holidays and Congratulations on reaching this third anniversary. Jan Schau

]]> By: Anonymous http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-239 Anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:17:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-239 Diane, this is a great overview of the state of the ADR blogging! Thank you for pulling it together! You and your work are very much appreciated. <br/>Gini Nelson<br/>EngagingConflicts.com Diane, this is a great overview of the state of the ADR blogging! Thank you for pulling it together! You and your work are very much appreciated.
Gini Nelson
EngagingConflicts.com

]]> By: Geoff Sharp http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-238 Geoff Sharp Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:45:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/12/11/in-celebration-of-the-adr-blogosphere-blogging-transforms-how-we-talk-about-dispute-resolution/#comment-238 Well Diane, you are the model of a star who likes to pass the ball and create opportunities for others. <br/><br/>Many of us owe you big time. <br/><br/>What about all of us getting together for 2 days of ADR and blogging talk in 08/09? Well Diane, you are the model of a star who likes to pass the ball and create opportunities for others.

Many of us owe you big time.

What about all of us getting together for 2 days of ADR and blogging talk in 08/09?

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