What do you associate with summer?
I associate laid back time with friends, great reading, cookouts, kayaking, hiking and plenty of other outside play time. I can’t reproduce the latter few for you online, but I can cook up something that combines the first two! Read on to find out what I’m up to.
Here’s what’s on tap in this newsletter, a new monthly feature at Mediator Tech:
- Announcing the “Making Mediation Your Day Job” Summer Book Group
- Book news
- Good reads and resources for ADR business owners
- Digest of Mediator Tech articles from the past month
Announcing the “Making Mediation Your Day Job” Summer Book Group
One of my favorite things is to sit down with my local book group, shoot the breeze, share great food and wine, and talk about our favorite reads. So it seems only natural to create a special summer book group for my own book, Making Mediation Your Day Job!
Beginning Friday, June 27, 12-12:45 pm Eastern Time, and continuing every two weeks through August, I’ll be hosting a telephone version of a book group. I’ll delve into my book with you chapter by chapter (not necessarily in the order printed), take your questions, brainstorm solutions to your own mediation marketing challenges, and serve as a resource to you. There’s no charge beyond purchasing your own copy of my book.
Come to one of them, come to all of them…your call (pun intended!). To register, just fill in and submit this form:
Book news
I received my very first royalty check in the mail last week. It was tempting to frame it instead of cash it, until I thought of all the hours I put in writing Making Mediation Your Day Job. My dogs, Smudge and Hugo, were happy to go to the bank’s drive-up teller with me and get the dog biscuits they know to expect from the nice bank lady.
I continue to offer my Virtual Book Tour teleseminars for interested ADR associations and groups. If you’re interested, just drop me a line and I’ll share the details for getting it set up with minimal hassle. I’ve got it down to a science by now!
Have you had any new insights or breakthroughts from reading the book? I’d love to hear about them.
Good reads and resources for ADR business owners
Here’s a quick roundup of some good ideas and useful tips from around the web:
- Geoff Sharp shows us how to store YouTube videos on our hard drives
- Dave Taylor explains how to get faxes for free and a few eFax secrets
- Web Worker Daily helps us find copies of long-lost user manuals via an online clearinghouse
- Diane Levin holds us accountable – and rightfully so – in her discussion of career prospects for mediators (and also mentions Geoff Sharp’s excellent posts on the topic).
Digest of Mediator Tech articles from the last month
Here’s a digest of the past month’s articles at Mediator Tech:
- Tech support for mediators and other everyday people
- Blog commenting as a mediator networking activity
- How to start a mediation business blog
- 4 reasons online networking is valuable for mediators even if your market is local
- Dear SnarkMonster: please change your email name
- Why your website needs a good 404 page
- Calculate your GQ (google quotient)
- How to make your ADR website a must-read
- Twitter 101 for mediators
Best to you,
Making Mediation Your Day Job by Tammy Lenski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at MediatorTech.com.
Tammy, thank you kindly for the shout-out for my post on the scarcity of work for mediators and the duties of mediation trainers to disclose the realities of mediation practice to mediator-hopefuls. And of course many thanks for the great round-up here of resources and ideas — invaluable, as usual.
P.S. Give Smudge and Hugo belly rubs from me!
Diane – Belly rubs to Dhobi, too! We need to catch up by phone, my friend. I’ll call when the air clears a bit in the next week or two.
Here’s Smudge getting a belly rub, courtesy of my iPhone. I think he likes it!