Arbitration & Mediation

Mediating on YouTube

By Diane Levin

It didn’t take long for mediators to leverage the power of YouTube.  A search on YouTube for “mediation” today yields almost 4,000 results, impressive even when you take into account the fact that some of those search results include “meditation” misspelled and “Mediate“, an INXS song from 1987.

Among the video clips on mediation that populate the extensive YouTube library is this one: an enterprising mediator persuaded two clients to let the camera into the mediation room and then uploaded excerpts to YouTube, where you can see some of the negotiations involving a neighborhood dispute over a dog.

You can view it here on YouTube. Creative use of social media for marketing or the mediation profession going to hell in a handbasket? You be the judge.

Full post as published by Online Guide to Mediation on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).