IDEAS' Lead Developer Thomas Gorence is one of the hosts at the WordPress Orlando Roundtable Meet Up on Saturday June 29, 2013 from 9:30am - 12:30pm at the Downtown Orlando headquarters of IDEAS. Space is limited for the event, which is for beginner, intermediate, and serious WordPress professionals. The topics of the Meet Up are still being det ...

My Story: Act One by Katie Schafer My childhood consisted of writing stories on construction paper, performing plays for a tolerant audience (my parents), and memorizing my favorite children’s books so I could recite them to anyone who would listen. In the summer of 2006 the IDEAS team graciously took me under their creative wing and taught m ...

Of the many Causes we are involved with, Special Olympics Florida is very near and dear to our CEO Phil Ruggieri. Phil has been involved with Special Olympics for many years and therefore, since Phil joined us 4+ years ago, we have been involved with Special Olympics. Special Olympics is the world’s largest program of sports training and athletic ...

Saturday May 18th, IDEAS hosted the Take The Walk event in Orlando. Take The Walk is a foundation, created by the band Hanson, made to encourage individuals to come together and take action against the HIV/AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa. The Walk is an event where participants walk one mile barefoot to publicly demonstrate how many people in t ...

Fall of 2012, 75% of the office all seemed to have taken the same Friday off. With so few of us left in the office, we decided to make it a special day, Pajama Day. Do you remember elementary school pajama days? It was so awesome getting to wear your bedtime clothes to school for the day, so we decided to do just that. Ironically enough, the 75% wh ...

Thus far, the majority of my "Modern Theater Experience" series of blog posts (The Avengers & The Hobbit) has focused on the visuals. IMAX, 3D, and HFR are all adding size, depth and speed to the classic theater viewing experience. What about the sound? Theater sound has changed a lot in my lifetime with Dolby and DTS sound becoming more preval ...

Recently we completed a video for the The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida. The Holocaust Center has focused their energy on developing a program called UpStanders: Stand Up To Bullying. Their website states that the program "uses the history and lessons of the Holocaust, in particular the stories of Rescuers or Righteous ...

Originally posted on the Inc. website by Steve Tobak, excerpts below: Tired of searching for the secret to a fulfilling career and a happy life? Look no further. What if the key to becoming successful and happy is to quit trying to be either? Would that throw a wrench into your career goals? Make a mess of your life plans? If so, then you n ...

Poor innovation. It's a word that's right up there with "producer" and "empowerment" in terms of having had its core meaning diluted and usurped until its own mom wouldn't recognize it anymore. By way of perhaps giving it back some dignity, here are 5 thoughts from my perpetually evolving work called "Zennovation-The Art of the Net Present Moment". ...

Originally posted on the Marketing Brain Fodder website, excerpts below: Some impressions are indelible. The golden sun, slowly dropping from view on a perfect horizon; the smell (and taste) of mom’s fresh-baked cherry cobbler; the eyes of a child in an early instance of wonder. For most of us, a few experiences are deeply etched into the ...

IDEAS Chief Storytelling Officer Bob Allen will be part of a panel about "Our Digital Future: Innovation at the Intersection of Creativity and Technology" on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 from 11am - 12:30pm at the Enzian during the Florida Film Festival. From production to parking, from marketing to multichannel interactivity, new digital applicat ...

In 2006, the IDEAS team was tasked with helping one of America's great vacation destinations reinvent itself. The Pocono Mountains is a region of over 2,400 square miles in Pennsylvania and home to extraordinary mountains and rivers. It offers four full seasons of calm re-connection in the woods and adventure with biking, hiking and kayaking in t ...

Recently the new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, made an interesting decision. She rescinded the company’s almost wide-open policy about working from home (click HERE for details). Whether it's work hours, work location, choice of tools or dress, decisions like this should and do keep leaders awake at night. These cultural systems warrant careful c ...

Shirley Decker, EVP, Business Development at IDEAS and Board Member of Women in Film & Television Florida (WIFT-FL) will be the host and panel moderator for the WIFT-FL Quarterly Meeting and Social Media Panel. The event will be held on Tuesday March 19, 2013 from 5:30 - 8:00pm at the Downtown Orlando headquarters of IDEAS. Space is limited, ...

I went to school in the stone age so imagine how pleased I was to hear that people still major in Communication. Last week I got a chance to talk with some of those folks in my friend Lucia's class at Florida State University and it was both astonishing and comforting. Astonishing because of all the leaps in technology and the social change fomente ...

How easy it is for us to assume the worst? I am very guilty of this. “Oh they were late for my meeting because they just didn’t care. They are so bad at managing their time. They must not think my priority is important.”  Especially in a work place full of many different personalities and stresses, it becomes easier and easier to assume the ...

Today, Team IDEAS is on its way to Tallahassee to deliver our next milestones and brief the Workforce Florida Board on our re-branding assignment for Workforce Florida, Inc. The team will attend a reception with Governor Scott on Wednesday evening and make a presentation on the results of our initial market research, Culture Mapping, StoryJam a ...

Originally posted on the Entrepreneur website, excerpts below: Before you can begin to sell your product or service to anyone else, you have to sell yourself on it. This is especially important when your product or service is similar to those around you. Very few businesses are one of a kind. Just look around you: How many clothing retailers, ...

We’ve been using social media in one way or another since early 2009 so in social media years, that’s a lifetime. Since we’ve been doing it for so long and people seem to think we do a nice job, we’re asked quite a bit what our strategy is. It’s a good question since you need to have a strategy if you’re going to be successful. If you d ...

IDEAS StoryAnalytics Master Rick Stone will be facilitating a storytelling hour sponsored by the Winter Park Historical Association featuring six Winter Park High School graduates on Friday February 15, 2013 at 11:30am at the Winter Park Welcome Center. The event is FREE and open to the public but space is limited, call 407-647-2330 or e-mail mus ...