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Here's a fun one for a rainy, dreary Monday (at least, here in New England it is): Go to Google Maps, and type in "get directions" from New York to London. Skip to #23 for a good laugh. Nice to know Google maps has a sense of humor! (Many thanks...

In an interesting confluence, in the past week I've run across three very different examples of injecting something unusual into the ordinary, with three very different results. Since every meeting planner I know is continually striving to find...

Check this out: the first-ever Association Social Media Unconference will take place on Tuesday, June 5 at ASAE & The Center’s Marriott Learning Complex in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. This is your opportunity to not only...

If you want to blow your mind, check out this little video, called Shift Happens: glumbert.com - Shift Happens We do indeed live in exponential times.

While I am one of the few who haven't fallen head over heels for Twitter, a fairly new service that lets you let everyone you know know exactly what you're doing, moment to moment, via text message, cell phone, or Web, Ben Martin has a good idea...

American Airlines has launched a Web site for female travelers in hopes that it can boost its revenue by catering to what women really want (at least in an airline experience). According to ...

So there's this fruit, called the durian, that, while it literally stinks, is much beloved by many Thais and Malaysians. According to Seth Godin, there's a guy who spent decades trying to come up with an unstinky version of the fruit, the thought...

Leave it to Dan Parks, co-moderator of the Meetings Community listserv (aka MeCo) to build a mansion just for meeting planners in the virtual world called Second Life. Dan gave me a tour late last week, and I was blown away by all the resources he...

It's now official: PowerPoint is bad for your brain. Here's the science. (Thanks to Seth Godin for the pointer.)