Mediate.com Podcast: Interview with Mediate.com Co-Founder John Helie

August 29, 2023

In celebration of the publication of Mediate.com’s 1,000th newsletter, Mediate.com CEO Colin Rule sits down with Mediate.com co-founder John Helie to talk about the early days of the Mediate.com (and ConflictNet), the This Week in Mediation newsletter, top authors and editors, and how artificial intelligence and social networking have changed and will change the ADR field over the coming decades (discussion interrupted only briefly by a marauding pack of nearby goats).

Here is the Notebook AI Podcast of Colin and John’s Discussion:

Here is a NotebookLM AI Podcast that adds consideration of additional YouTube Videos and textual information about John:

Here is a picture of John and Colin in front of John’s home in Arcata, California (August 2023).

Here is a picture of Mediate.com Founders John Helie and Jim Melamed from 1996:

John Helie

As a co-founder of Mediate.com (1996), John Helie extended his commitment to dispute resolution and the Internet. John earlier founded ConflictNet in 1988 as a communication forum and information sharing network for the Conflict Resolution Practitioners community. A trained mediator and facilitator, John pioneered work with online conflict and communication from the… MORE >

Colin Rule

Since 2020, Colin Rule is CEO of ODR.com, Inc. and Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., home of Mediate.com, MediateUniversity.com, Arbitrate.com and CaseloadManager.com. 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… MORE >