After a FULL DAY OF WORK, Insurers Administrative Corporation (IAC) representatives Carolyn Atkins (left) and Joy Fletcher enjoyed a little taste of Cleveland. We took them to see Monet in Normandy at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and we stopped at the Rock Hall to view the entries for Guitar Mania 2007.

The pink guitar was one of their favorites. IdeaStar is currently developing Web sites for life and health insurance applications, quote engines/disks and more for IAC, based in Phoenix, AZ.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 2:59 pm and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Who knew those cute little guys featured in our Name the Employee contest would grow up to be Web developers extraordinaire at IdeaStar. Our most recent subject turned out to be (drum roll please….)

Mike Balogh! Some of you were sure it was Levi Wilson. But hey. What can we say. The statisics are:

• Five guesses for Mike Balogh
• One guess for Levi
• One guess for Steve Lamb
• One guess for Jim Fisher (When and if we run a picture of Jim, we’re sure he will have a beard, even at that young age.)

Congratulations to Brian Darby, Ryan Pastorelle, Mike Wise, Lee Chen, and Steve Lamb for guessing correctly.

Our previous subject turned out to be none other than Brian Darby. And what a cute little guy he was.
Stats were:

• Two guesses for Brian Darby
• Two guesses for Mike Wise
• Two guesses for Steve Lamb
• One for Dale Cassidy
• One for Phil Hall

Congratulations to Greg Kopp and Mike Balogh for reasoning correctly.

Whom will we post next? You’ll have to wait and see.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

By Andi Hoppes, IdeaStar marketing assistant

The next exciting installment of our IdeaStar employee guessing game is here! Feel free to make your guesses below by adding a comment! Once people have made their guesses we will announce who it really is!

This mischievous young man is smiling so big because he just threw a full cup of water on an innocent little girl. Sounds like something a typical 8 year old would do! He was celebrating his friend’s birthday, so maybe he was trying to impress the guys?

He is decked out in style, rocking a King’s Island shirt for the roller coaster The Beast, dinosaur shorts, and tube socks. I think we can infer that this fellow had quite a fun day from this picture! Who could it be?

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 9:56 am and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

IdeaStar General Manager Susanne Svette, her husband Mark, and daughter Grace welcomed baby Alethea Jane into their family May 3. She arrived weighing 7 lbs. 15 oz., and wearing a good head of dark brown hair.

Mom and baby Alethea are doing fine.

Grace gets a few moments of mom time.

Dad Mark does a good job of wrapping.

Who is this person? Alethea really wants to know.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 7, 2007 at 10:49 am and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

By Andi Hoppes, IdeaStar marketing assistant

Everybody is a star at IdeaStar. We’ve decided to occasionally post a picture of one from way before they were part of the IdeaStar team. Feel free to guess who our featured employee is in the comments section below. We’ll let you know who is correct. Our first employee pictured is:

Who knew this handsome 5-year-old would be working at IdeaStar down the road? He is pictured here at his great-grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary, dancing with a young lady named Christie. Gigantic “airplane propeller” bow ties were in style at the time, he said, so it was OK for him to be wearing one. He remembers he danced all day. Maybe we will see him on the real Dancing With the Stars.Take a guess who he is.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 11:05 am and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.