Author: John Lux
Battle Stations 21 utilizes storytelling techniques and tested immersive technology developed in the entertainment industry. By delivering the Battle Stations 21 training content inside a rich story and a high fidelity, immersive environment, the U.S. Navy achieves better retention, comprehension, and integration of key training objectives. The objective of the...
This week was busy, and it was a short week. We stepped up the social networking marketing. While we continue using Facebook quite a bit (www.facebook.com/ideas.orlando), we are stepping up the Twitter page (http://twitter.com/ideasorlando) and we have started our own You Tube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/ideasorlando). As of today we have more...
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that as part of our relocation to Downtown Orlando, the facility owner agreed to pay for most of the build out of a state of the art audio facility for IDEAS. Today, construction officially began. Around 9am the contractors arrived and demolition of the...
Nothing major this past week but a lot of little things. We spent the week in the Symphony with our client that is producing a show for the National Geographic Channel. We were supposed to be done by the end of the week but mid-way through the on-line edit the client...
The neat thing about working at IDEAS is that we get the opportunity to work on so many great projects that are nothing alike. One day we're doing an eLearning course for Hill-Rom, a major innovator in the medical technology field, providing medical equipment and health care solutions to enhance...
We've been in our new home for almost 5 months and one of the best things about being in downtown Orlando is the lunch options. Over the past couple days we've compiled our list of IDEAS favorite lunch places. In no particular order here's our list, let us know what...
The Stage was the first place that stuff went when we started moving things from our old building to the new one back in March. Since that time the Stage has been quite the dumping ground. When we were packing if we didn't really have a place for something, it...
I was meeting with a potential client the other day and they asked the question: What is the perfect project/client for IDEAS. I proceeded to tell the story of our relationship with the Siemens Corporation. 3 years ago, Shirley Decker and I went to a luncheon for Operating Participants of...
Since about February 1 of this year we have lived with a dumpster almost every day. Whether it was for 2+ months back at the old place or the 4+ months since we've been here, we have had a dumpster outside our front or back door almost every day. Let...
A couple weeks ago I mentioned the kick off meeting for the next phase of work for the Kids Get a Plan website (www.kidsgetaplan.com) that we did for the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Yesterday we had a group of our team and a couple people from the client side...
This past Friday we signed the proposal for our General Contractor on the Audio A build out. After 6 weeks of getting proposals, working budgets and lots of conference calls we settled on The Collage Companies for the work. While all the Contractors were great, we felt Collage was the...
For the past couple months we had two great interns, Nate and Shawn. Both of them finished up two weeks ago so I spent last week interviewing a new batch of potential interns. We have been using interns for many years and some batches of interviews seem to better than...
