Mick Doherty has written and contributed to the collaborative writing of speeches and public letters for executives at the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau and American Airlines, and has written and delivered presentations and workshops in more than a dozen states.

Sample Speech
Written for Jorge Herrera, Senior Vice President of Tourism, Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau
Context: For a November 1998 presentation to a group of veteran travel professionals and media on the topic "Keeping Pace With Changing Demands: International Trends to Watch and Why."
Title: "Keeping an Eye on the E-Merging Marketplace"

Sample Presentations
Context: Given at conferences involving educators, authors, editors and other professionals, these presentations all share a common approach: use of humor and irony to demystify difficult concepts that may be new to the audience.
Logan, Utah: Netoric, Technorhetoric and Syllawebs-R-Us (June 1996)
El Paso, Texas: All Mimsy Were the Technophobes (May 1995)
Troy, New York: Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson (February 1995)
East Lansing, Michigan: Manifesto for an Empath (October 1993)

Selected Additional Presentations and Workshops:
Screenshots: How To Sell Yourself on Paper (Dallas: August 1998)
Identical Cousins: Debating the Next Step in Online Publishing (Gainesville, FL: May 1998)
How to Get Published in an Electronic Journal (Dallas: November 1997)
Writing about Electronic Technology for Electronic Publications (Honolulu: June 1997)
The Bonfire of the Humanities, or "Tenure Anyone?" (Honolulu: June 1997)
From Problems to Answers: Overcoming Barriers for Technorhetoricians (Honolulu: June 1997)
Critiquing The Tic-Toc Initiative (Chicago: May 1997)
The Politics of Electronic Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition (Phoenix: March 1997)
Developing Critical Cyberliteracy Skills in Writing Classes (Phoenix: March 1997)
Designing for the Screen: A Workshop For Web Workers (Phoenix: March 1997)
HyperTexts and PaperTexts: How Do They Inform Each Other? (online: December 1996)
Interiorizing Technologies: Inventing Textual Reality (Troy, NY: September 1996)
Linking-Cheating-Grading: Plagiarism, Ownership, and Assessing Web Skills (online: August 1996)
The Future of Quality in Online Publication (online: June 1996)
Right Place, Right Time: Kairos Comes Online (Logan, Utah: June 1996)
Netoric and Naming: Kludging a New Pedagogy (online: May 1996)
Hypertext as Social Act: Rhetorical Invention and Writing to the Web (Lubbock, Texas: April 1996)
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally on the World Wide Web (Milwaukee: March 1996)
The Netorical Situation (Washington, D.C.: February 1996)
The Kairos of Linking: "Nobody Nodes De Troubles I've Seen" (Troy, NY: December 1995)
The Miller's Tale: The Magical Number Seven ... (Philadelphia: April 1995)
Cyber-Based Prose: Transplanting Flower ... (Washington, D.C.: March 1995)
CyberWrite and "Audience Accessed" (Columbia, MO: May 1994)
Virtual Discourse in the Brick-and-Mortar Classroom (Nashville: March 1994)