Card tricks and concentration
May 23, 2007
Meeting planners are masters of doing a seemingly impossible trick, especially while on site: Keeping a close eye on the detail at hand, while simultaneously monitoring everything else going on around them. I thought I was pretty good at it, too...
Rooms matter
May 23, 2007
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...
Hilton rewards hospitality
May 22, 2007
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...
Pixels for sale
May 22, 2007
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...
New cure for jet lag?
May 22, 2007
Put away that melatonin—according to this article in the New Scientist, research suggests that Viagra might be the new cure for...
Name that plane
May 19, 2007
Last Friday the Department of Transportation approved Virgin America as a new low-fare U.S. airline, with plans to be in 10...
We loathe airlines more than the IRS
May 17, 2007
Who would have guessed? According to this survey, airlines are even lower in our collective esteem than the IRS...
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