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When you toil in the fields of story—honest work by the way—you sometimes get a chance to help grow something vital and important. IDEAS is a team of passionate creators so when we got a chance to help the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts create the next chapter in...
Healthcare Team Training (HTT) and IDEAS have partnered to launch StoryCare™, the first enterprise-wide, staff deployed teamwork simulation program using the power of story to measurably improve patient safety and satisfaction. StoryCare is the first system of its kind to leverage the power of story to create impactful team-based learning simulations...
By Leonard David From msnbc.com Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, is taking shape in southern New Mexico, not only as an outbound and incoming hub for tourists who ascend to and return from suborbital heights, but also as a high-tech haven for experimental craft that push new...
IDEAS has been awarded three Crystal Reel Awards for their work on Adventure to Fitness, the groundbreaking 30-minute series for kids that brings health and physical activity together with geography, science, social studies, and language arts. In an awards ceremony hosted by the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association, Inc....
When thinking of the integral role of storytelling in every phase of fundraising, there are myriad ways to examine how fundraising is impacted by this simple, yet profound tool for communicating. To me they are like fractals that when combined create a whole—and all are necessary. Through my years of...
Since graduating college and entering into the world of post production, it seems like everyone asks the question: Which editing program do you prefer, Avid or Final Cut? In one corner you have Avid, the old reliable used by seasoned professionals around the globe. In the other corner is Final...
Earlier this week we shared a view into the future with one of our clients. We call it the "Guest Experience of the Future". Just what is it? --- the combination of the power of story, wrapped in leading edge technologies -- all combined to deliver a personalized and immersive guest experience....
I hope everyone is lucky enough to have days when every other thought is “dang, I LOVE what I’m doing.” Yesterday was one of those for me (I have to admit, I have more than my fair share). I was lucky enough to spend the whole day focused on a SINGLE...
Yesterday we spent all day at a remarkable event. It was the first day of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). There is an exciting and hugely energetic emerging industry being built around private enterprise, no, that’s not quite right...wildly entrepreneurial individuals and companies betting the farm on a new rocket-plane...
Today Team IDEAS, in the persons of Tom Cordova from CMG and me, attended a major press event at Spaceport America. Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic team rolled out the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo craft and flew a great exhibition pattern over the 10,000 ft Spaceport America runway. The...
On September 11, 2001 a great deal of suffering was continued. While it’s often said that the suffering “happened” or “was caused”, I think those statements are incorrect. The suffering that manifested as the destruction, fear, loss of life, pain and misery of the World Trade Center disaster has deep...
