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<xTITLE>Introducing the Mediate.com Podcast</xTITLE>

Introducing the Mediate.com Podcast

by Veronica Cravener, Colin Rule
 September 2021

We’re excited to finally share the news: we’ve launched the new Mediate.com Podcast, hosted by our good friend mediator Veronica Cravener!  You can check out the first episodes (and find all future episodes) here: http://mediate.podbean.com -- or just search any of your favorite podcast serving sites, from iTunes to Spotify to IHeartRadio… we’re on (or soon to be on) all of them.

Podcasts have emerged as one of the most exciting spaces for community and conversation on the internet, and we’re delighted to have Veronica leading the way in bringing mediation to a wider audience through this new channel.

We aim for the Mediate.com Podcast to cover everything in the world of mediation: conflict resolution, best practices, ethics, technology, and business development. Episodes will include interviews with experienced practitioners, discussions of practice dilemmas, and explorations of the future of the mediation field.

We’d love to hear your ideas about topics as well -- just send an email to crule@mediate.com and I’ll put your idea into our queue.  There’s so many exciting stories happening in the world of mediation I’m sure we’ll never run out of topics.

Please join us and let us know what you think.  If you’re interested in mediation, just getting started as a mediator, or if you have decades of practice under your belt — we’d love to have you as part of our new podcast community.
 

Biography


Veronica Cravener is a mediator and trainer for Mediate to Achieve, LLC, based in Columbus, Ohio, USA.  She has mediated more than 500 disputes across areas such as landlord-tenant, contracts, consumer-business, personal injury, neighbors, individual disputes over money, and post-employment disputes.  She is experienced at mediating by text message in addition to in-person and telephone mediation.  Active in the dispute resolution community, she previously served as chair of the Columbus Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and has written articles on mediation, including one featured on Mediate.com.  She began her career as a mediator at a local community mediation center and also previously worked in a court-connected mediation role, having previously served as the Small Claims and Dispute Resolution Supervisor at the Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, Ohio.  Prior to becoming a mediator, she practiced law.  She earned her J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and her B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.


Colin Rule is CEO of Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc. ("RIS"), home of Mediate.com, MediateUniversity.com, Arbitrate.com, CaseloadManager.com and a number of additional leading online dispute resolution initiatives.  From 2017 to 2020, Colin was Vice President for Online Dispute Resolution at Tyler Technologies. Tyler acquired Modria.com, an ODR provider that Colin co-founded, in 2017.  Previously, from 2003 to 2011, Colin was Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal.  Further, Colin co-founded Online Resolution in 1999, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers, and served as its CEO and President.  Colin also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002, and co-author of The New Handshake: Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection, published by the ABA in 2017. Colin received the first Frank Sander Award for Innovation in ADR from the American Bar Association in 2020, and the Mary Parker Follett Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) in 2013. Colin holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a graduate certificate in dispute resolution from UMass-Boston, a B.A. from Haverford College, and Colin served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.  You can read many of Colin's articles and see some of his talks at colinrule.com/writing.