As any meeting planner knows, the environment can make or break a meeting. And now, thanks to the Journal of Consumer Research, we’ll soon have a study to prove it, at least in terms of ceiling heights. If you have a lot of details to work on, a low-ceiling room will help keep people grounded, the study found. But if you want people to concentrate on the big picture, high ceilings will help their brains get in the right frame of mind (so to speak).

Thanks to the Church of the Customer blog for the pointer!

Actually, the company has given customers a place to reward acts of human kindness and just plain old good customer service by posting their experiences on its BeHospitable.com site. I just did some quick skipping around, and was glad to see that it’s not limited to good things about Hilton properties—they’re looking for any story about good interactions people have had with other people.

If you ever need a warm fuzzy, check it out. And be sure to leave your stories, too.

Remember the Million Dollar Home Page, Alex Tew’s brilliant idea for how to make a million bucks by selling ad space for a dollar a pixel, with a 10-pixel-by-10-pixel minimum, on a Web site? (If not, here’s one of the many stories that ran about it at the time.) Well, seeing as he succeeded in raising a boatload of money that way, lots of others have since gotten on the pixelated bandwagon.

And now we have one of our own: Jeffrey Brown of Tradeshow Life fame has set up the Tradeshow LifeWall. According to a press release:

The Tradeshow LifeWall is a Web-based “wall” of over one million pixels. Companies, organizations and even individuals can acquire “pixel property” and display an image of their choice with a “tool-tip” pop-up description and a back link to their own Website.

Pixel prices appear to vary depending on the real estate, but it’s all in the highly affordable range. Interesting idea, Jeff.