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As a lover of the arts, of course I jumped at the opportunity to tour the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts that is currently under construction.  Let me just say, this place is impressive. Phase One of this 330,000-square-foot facility in downtown Orlando will house two performance...

IDEAS’ Lead Developer Thomas Gorence is one of the hosts at the WordPress Orlando Roundtable Meet Up on Saturday May 3, 2014 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...

Originally posted on the Fast Company website, excerpts below: The first few years after I decided to take my creative writing seriously, I couldn't overcome the nagging feeling that my fiction was simply a glorified hobby--like knitting or fishing. Plenty of people helped reinforce that. I'd be at a party filled with...

Originally posted on the Fast Company website, excerpts below: We live in a connected world--there are apps today that help solve problems you didn’t even know you had and anticipate needs before you realize them. When you can constantly be connected to the Internet, it opens the door for technology solutions to...

Imagine it’s the week before Thanksgiving and you are putting together that list of all the items you will need for dinner, knowing of course you will forget something (this time it was the jellied cranberry sauce and you can see it’s not important to the author). Then you see...

Hello readers! My name is Cass Hensley, and I was the Game Designer behind our Halloween game Tomb Town Bash. Hopefully all of you have played our game, and if you haven’t then you should totally go download and play it! The best thing about our game is that it...

Originally posted on the Explore B2B website, excerpts below: Do you find your need for perfection stalls productivity, makes you hesitate to make decisions and hinders your ability to proceed?Perfection is selfishly keeping your brilliance to yourself, and that doesn’t help the world. Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist who discovered...

Last week, my co-workers and I attended a meeting of the Orlando Post Pros.  This particular meeting was focused on color correction, an increasingly important component of any editor's skill set. Speaking at this meeting was Patrick Inhofer, a career colorist who presides over a popular color tutorial website called...

Orlando is the kind of community that immediately embraces people. Over twenty years ago when I was working at what was then The Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios), some friends of mine asked if we would consider helping out a local service organization. Trained well, I immediately said "let...

We've had the great fortune to lead Team IDEAS, a collection of best of breed creative, analytic, marketing and operating companies, in design projects all over the world. Among those are Spaceport America and Spaceport Sweden. Last week I spent three days in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the International...

There has been a lot of talk recently about the “Orlando Venues” - the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the Citrus Bowl and a new soccer stadium. Everyone else is giving their opinion, so I figured why not give mine too. While I’m writing this on our company...

Part 1: The anticipation of doing something rewarding and unusual can certainly take over your entire routine – checking out the organization’s website to learn more about what they do and how they got started, not knowing exactly what your responsibilities will be (thus the need for an orientation session!),...