KHNT BLOG: Pilot episode

Posted By Saba Shatara, Sep 14, 2011

4/1/11

Welcome to the first entry of your King Hall Negotiations Team Blog! In beginning this project I took great care and, really, an inordinate amount of time trying to respond to a single issue: what is this blog going to be? A couple points were instantly resolved. 1) It would have to do with ADR (otherwise I’d probably get fired as research chair), and 2) I would have to limit my conversation either in breadth of topic or depth of detail.

To better inform myself on what other ADR blogs were doing I clicked through probably dozens of existing blogs on Alternative Dispute Resolution topics. Sometimes I would read the two most recent entries, be bored out of my mind and move. Luckily, for the most part, those bloggers who specialize in alternative dispute resolution have a pretty good sense of humor (for an example look at Victoria Pynchon’s Negotiation Blog, where she occasionally plugs her book “A is for Asshole: The grownup’s ABCs of conflict resolution” for Kindle). And I’ve found that the best bloggers make a compromise: they limit the scope of their discussion to cater to a particular group of people, and insert detail when particularly pertinent.

Link: http://www.negotiationlawblog.com/

So I’ve decided to follow suit and make the same compromise.  As I mentioned in the beginning of this entry this is your blog, meaning I will be focusing on the things that either affect the King Hall community directly, e.g., visiting speakers, topics which may be the subjects of competitions, KNHT competition results (wins); or, alternatively, observations on articles, posts, books, which the King Hall Community will find interesting or resourceful. The blog will be updated weekly and detail will vary each week depending on what is being posted.

For my part, I promise to limit my findings to things that will not put you to sleep. I’ll try my best to be informative, entertaining, and brief (well…, more brief). I welcome contributions, and I imagine other members of the KHNT board will be posting occasionally, so if you have any great ADR ideas catch me in the Halls and let me know. Thanks to everyone for “tuning in” and see you next week!