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  • 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...

  • When we made the decision to move a major criteria for our new home was the ability continue doing the level of post production (editing and audio) that we have done in the past. A couple months in to the process of looking for a new place we made the...

  • I was flipping channels this past weekend and came across a movie on Lifetime Movie Network that we worked on a couple years ago. Back in 2006 we were introduced to executive producer Bill O'Dowd and his company, Dolphin Entertainment. Dolphin Entertainment was about to start shooting a series of...

  • A couple weeks ago I posted something on Facebook about our work on the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, D.C. and got a couple e-mails asking what we did on the project. So here's the story, about 2 years ago we received a call from people from...

  • The end of last week was productive when it comes to getting a new webisode up on our new home website. It's been a while since we posted one because we've been here for a while and not much is new. However, as we move towards the beginning of the...