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I’ve used sequenced illustrations as part of planning slide shows, PowerPoint presentations, videos and live events my entire career. They have been sketched on everything from grid and illustration paper to paper napkins and table cloths. They have been created by everyone from the most talented illustrators, to clients, and...
IDEAS' Lead Developer Thomas Gorence will be one of the hosts at the WordPress Orlando Roundtable MeetUp on Saturday August 25, 2012 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 MeetUp...
A little over 3 years ago, I left Orlando to live in Greensboro, NC as my wife took advantage of an exciting promotion within her own company. Luckily, this did not require a career change for me and I was able to continue with IDEAS and remain part of the...
Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built, commercial spaceport, has launched a new look for its brand on Independence Day. "Spaceport America is helping a new American Revolution take place in the commercial space industry, and what better time to showcase our new brand than the Fourth of July," said Christine...
Good companies spend a fortune on their brand—building it, telling their story in the marketplace, training their staff to embody it, etc. But it doesn’t take much to bring a goliath brand to its knees. In fact, all brands are fragile to a degree, and in the world of social...
Originally posted on the Forbes website. If I had to sum up in two words everything I’ve learned in 25 years of work on communications, rhetoric, public speaking, speechwriting, and body language, those two words would be: charismatic storytelling. Charismatic because in an over-stimulated, impatient world, it’s passion and charisma that get...
With all of the work that we do with video and different types of media, we were naturally drawn to a product that is just coming on the scene… the Swivl. The company describes it as “your own personal cameraman.” More technically speaking it is “…an interactive motorized tripod with...
Originally posted on the Addicted to Success website 1. Give and you shall receive When someone does you a favor, you know instinctively that you will have to do something in return in the future. Psychologists call this the reciprocity rule, and it can be very useful in persuasion. Try it...
We have a species-wide propensity for becoming attached to things we view as pleasant or desirable and resisting things that aren't. Then, there is a whole class of conditions that are neither and we're REALLY not sure what to do with those but in general, we'd like to convert the...
IDEAS' Lead Developer Thomas Gorence will be one of the hosts at the WordPress Orlando Roundtable MeetUp on Saturday July 7, 2012 from 9:30am - 12:00pm 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 MeetUp...
Originally posted on the Forbes website by Beverly Schwartz, VP Ashoka Marketing and author of Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World: A recent post by David Shaywitz discussed the difference between “jobbers” and entrepreneurs. He said that jobbers “work not for enlightenment, a higher purpose, or to...
Click the cover below for Mix Magazine's 2012 Best Designed Sound-for-Picture Studios, a collection of this year's hottest new studios, feature on Audio A at IDEAS.