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  • "Journalism's Fundamentals," workshop for news staff, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Springfield, VA, September 2007
  • “Making Greater Use of E-communications: Building Virtual Communities,” Phone/Mail 101 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2007.
  • “Training Trainers,” management workshops, Aljazeera Media Training and Development Center, Doha, Qatar, November 2005 and February 2006.
  • “Telling Our Stories: Persuasive Letter Writing for Fund-Raising,” University of Texas System Development Conference, Austin, Texas, October 2005.
  • "To Make the Most of Patient Privacy Regulations, Relationship Building is Essential," ghost-written for for the by-lined author, Spring 2003, AHP Journal.
  • "The 2002 IDC Survey: The state-of-the-art of telephone fund raising at American colleges and universities, research report," published by IDC, April 2003 as update of a 1998 survey.
  • "News 105," web-delivered introductory news reporting and writing course, created for Missouri University Center for Independent Study, offered initially, Spring 2003.

  • "CallerMaxSM Caller Training," Web-delivered training program offered for multi-year license to colleges and universities by IDC, initially August 2001.
  • "Recommendations for a Sustainable Training Program for the Middle East News Agency," paper presented to MENA Chairman Mahfouz El Ansari following consulting visit, Cairo, May 2001.
  • "LTU annual fund," e-mail, web and telephone annual fund solicitation for Lawrence Technological University, Detroit. Designed and produced the e-mail and web elements of the project (video, audio and text) for IDC, Spring 2001.

  • "Defining Socially Responsible Journalism: Theoretical & Workaday Perspectives," paper presented to the Lebanese American University/International Press Institute Seminar: "Freedom of Expression and the Media in Lebanon," Beirut, May 2001, with Fred Vultee, also of Missouri School of Journalism.
  • "Motives for Studying Journalism Among Students at Lebanese, Palestinian, and American Universities," paper presented to conference of Arab United States Association of Communications Educators, Aman, November 2000 with Sami Zeidan, (University of Missouri-Columbia), Leila Kaddoura (Lebanese University), Nash'at Aqtash (Birzeit University).

  • "E-Fund Raising: Promises and Pitfalls," designer, facilitator of four-hour workshop, IDC Institute, Las Vegas, July 2000.
  • "Internationalizing a journalism curriculum using distance education technology: A pilot project between Lebanese American University and the University of Missouri-Columbia," paper, 4th Annual Conference of Arab U.S. Association for Communications Educators, Beirut, October 1999, with Magda Abu-Fadil (Lebanese American University).
  • "Raising Health Care Gifts by Telephone: Great promise--and results," AHP Journal, Fall 1999.

  • "The 1998 IDC Survey: The state-of-the-art of telephone fund raising at American colleges and universities, research report," published by IDC, February 1999.
  • "Highlights of the 4th IDC Institute," audio cassette, distributed by IDC, January 1999.
  • "Using the WWW to edit student stories long-distance: A step in the development of a transnational reporting and news writing class," paper, 3rd Annual Conference of the Arab U.S. Association for Communications Educators, Cairo, September 1998.

  • "A report on journalism education and training programs in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan," the Missouri-Birzeit Group (Daniela Khalaf, Munir K. Nasser, John Merrill, Ronald Naeger, Roger Gafke), Birzeit, West Bank, July 1998.
  • "Carving a piece of the action for the Annual Fund," Advancing Philanthropy, Summer 1998.
  • "Designing pre-call communications," workshop, IDC Institute, Las Vegas, July 1998.
  • "20th Anniversary of Telemarketing Fund Raising: Disturbing Trends, Great Possibilities," Fund Raising Management, April 1998.

  • "Adding multimedia instruction to a broadcast curriculum: The impact of substituting on-line reporting for radio news reporting as a prerequisite for a beginning course in television news reporting," BEA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, April 1998.
  • "Celebrating 25th Anniversary of IDC," video production, IDC anniversary dinner, April 1998.
  • "Making the case: Matching donor interest & organizational priority," NSFRE, Las Vegas Chapter, January 1998.

  • "Highlights of the 3rd IDC Institute," audio cassette, distributed by IDC, January 1998.
  • "Making the case for the annual fund," workshop, IDC Phonathon/Telemarketing Institute, Las Vegas, August 1997.
  • "The paperless classroom: Strategies, costs and benefits," with Glenda Moun and Mary Ellen Brown, Colloquium Series, Missouri Institute for Instructional Technology, April 1997.

  • "Using Astound presentation software to teach writing criticism," presentation to Teaching Renewal Conference, Program for Excellence in Teaching, University of Missouri-Columbia, March 1997.
  • "Strategies for grading and editing student writing on-line," Colloquium Series, Missouri Institute for Instructional Technology, February 1997.
  • "Designing effective direct mail packages," workshop for CASE, Bethesda, MD, October 1996.
  • "Acquiring and Keeping Donors in the New Healthcare Environment," Fund Raising Management, August 1996. "Correspondence Course," CASE Currents, May 1996. Article on direct mail fund raising.
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