I know, we’re late to the party, but we just today finally set up a LinkedIn group for MeetingsNet. Being brand spanking new, there’s not a lot going on there yet, but I invite you all to come on down and check it out, join the group, start a discussion, and let the networking begin! There are specific subgroups set up for each of our magazines, as well, for those who want to get into the nitty gritty of association, corporate, financial/insurance, medical, or religious planning issues.

I hope to see you there!

At the Global Alliance for Medical Education meeting in Montreal this week, GAME president Paul Piché, President, HIT Global Inc., used the coolest app I’ve ever seen to illustrate the demographics of disease and healthcare in the world: www.worldmapper.org/. Here are two of the examples from the site, illustrating the distribution of the world’s population today (top) and 2,000 years ago (bottom):

It really brought the data home in a way I hadn’t seen before, and it looks really easy to use. From an attendee perspective, two huge thumbs up.

Ben Martin offers six great tips on how to get more out of the time you spend sitting in front of your computer. I learned a few new things!

From the I-really-should-have-had-someone-proofread-this-press-release department (I deleted the name of the state to save it the embarrassment): “State Office of Travel & Tourism and The State Cultural Council have partnered for the third consecutive year on WorldFest, a copulation of the State’s summer ethnic and cultural festivals, feasts and celebrations.”

Oops.

Did I mention that I absolutely adore our copyeditor, who regularly saves me from a similar fate?

Check out this video of what the National Restaurant Association did to get people at its trade show moving, grooving, and having what looks like a blast:

C’mon MPI, please do this at the upcoming WEC! I love it.

(Thanks to Elizabeth Weaver Engel for the pointer!)