mediationvblog.com

Welcome to the Mediation vBlog Project!

We’re going to be the first, the very first, to track our practice and all things mediation by video blog - a kind of mediation genome project by video blog.

My idea is to take advantage of recent video sharing technology to post short video clips of mediators everywhere at work, the more live the better. The growth of video social networking is amazing with 60,000 new videos uploaded every day and over 100 million viewed every day, as more people explore this type of online medium.

So my aim is for the vBlog Project to provide a platform for mediators from all over the world to share their skills by video.

All of us have at least one digital camera, phone camera, PDA Blackberry or Treo don’t we? - and guess what - they all take short video clips that can easily be emailed.

I have always been a little uneasy about the way we mediators work behind closed doors, without much sunlight in the room …so time to change that.

Try taking a clip of:

• your opening!
• a participant’s reaction after the mediation
• one of the lawyer’s reflections after the mediation
• debrief to camera on what went well or what didn’t
• you training or talking on an aspect of mediation

Then just email it to me in any format making it up to 5 minutes long, at vblog@geoffsharp.co.nz … and it will be posted here at this blog in no time. It needs to be fresh and ‘live’ (no more than a week old), 2 - 5 minutes in length, and can be of any quality. Some clips taken on camera phones/PDA’s may be low res, but that’s fine. The main thing is to post. Also have as many ummms and ahhhhs in it as you want - we will get what you mean. Any one working in the LA market may have to set a standard but the rest of us can stumble through.

This is going to be your chance to share your craft with your peers. Check back for details and the first clips from trail blazing mediators…