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Despite sub-zero temperatures, more than 100 guests joined us Friday night for the annual Insight Designs holiday party. And a fabulous time was had by all (we assume). There's a reasonable amount of Telluride Face Down Brown Ale and Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale left. So we'll be hosting happy hour at 4 pm every day until the taps run dry. Stop off for a frosty one! It's been a long-standing tradition to take the opportunity to promote the products and services of our awesome clients in a prize giveaway during the party. Last year, instead of interrupting the party buzz to award prizes, we did the drawing afterwards. It worked so well we did the same again this year. And the 2013 winners are (drum roll please):

• Jonathan Auerbach, guest of Ann Obenchain of Chautauqua, won two tickets to the Folks Festival at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons.
• Suzy Price, wife of Durk Price of eAccountable won a $50 gift certificate to The Mediterranean Restaurant.
• Rob Linde of Eldora won a $50 gift certificate to Brasserie Ten Ten.
• Carroll Loyer of Carroll Loyer Fine Art Photography, won a $50 gift certificate to Chautauqua Dining Hall.
• Jason Smith of Friction Facts, won a $50 gift certificate to Murphy’s Restaurant.
• Jesse Perry of Able Planet won a $50 gift certificate to Crocs.
• Matt Smoot of Liquor Mart won a full day lift ticket at Eldora Mountain Resort.
• Zac McGrath of ROI Rocket, won a pair of noise cancellation headphones from Able Planet.
• Ed Narvaez of Dot Hill won a $50 gift certificate to Alfalfa’s Market.
• Lindsay Friedman, outreach manager for Chasing Ice and Doug Holbrook, our CPA, each won a $25 gift certificate to Liquor Mart.

If you missed the fun this year, be sure to join us next year. Mark your calendars now: Friday, December 5, 2014. In the meantime, here's wishing you and yours a Happy, Healthy New Year! Stay warm out there! And don't forget to drop by any day this week between 4 and 5:30 for a cold brew.

The Insight Designs crew is doing the 155-mile Courage Classic bike ride to raise money for the Colorado Children's Hospital Foundation again this summer. Last year, our team - A Cure Insight - raised more than $50,000 for the hospital's pediatric oncology department thanks in great part to the generous support of our clients, friends and family. This year, Insight Designs is offering to match all client donations 2-to-1 (up to $10,000). If a client gives $50, we'll give $100 on their behalf. If they give $100, we'll give $200. And so on. If you'd like to give, go to: http://couragetours.com/2013/laird I just started emailing clients to let them know about the ride, the amazing cause, and our 2-to-1 match, and already more than a dozen clients and their employees have made donations! Thanks to all of you:

• RDS Environmental
• Roberts & Company Publishers
• Securosis
• 321 Gang
• Berger & Webb, LLP
• Angling Trade
• CU in DC
• UCAR AtmosNews
• NCWIT
• PayRight Health Solutions
• Friction Facts
• RockWare
• eswimmers.com
• Solution Tree

After having been a reporter in my first career, it's always a bit odd to be the one answering the questions in an interview instead of asking. But I was happy to speak with Ryan Dionne from Skiing Business this week for a piece he wrote called "Your Website Might Suck." Check it out.

After a 5-month hiatus from the ID blog, I'm back. As many of you know, in April my then 4-year-old son Laird was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive, but curable form of cancer called Burkitt's Lymphoma. I'm happy to report that after a grueling spring and summer that included 4 surgeries, 10 spinal taps, 5 week-long rounds of chemotherapy, 16 times under general anesthesia, scores of blood draws, and hundreds of oral medications, Laird is cancer free! He turned 5 in August, just started kindergarten and is full of energy again. I'm forever indebted to Nico, Ellie, Keith, Carlos, Evan, Mike, Clint, Peter, Bryant and Dave for holding down the fort at Insight Designs throughout this ordeal. And huge thanks to Insight's clients for their patience, their prayers and their words of encouragement. As I'm sure you can imagine, I had to put many things at home and work on the back burner while I focused on helping Laird kick cancer's butt. One of those things was this blog. Of course, others at Insight are welcome to post blog entries. But as many companies find, if blog writing is not absolutely required, it simply doesn't happen. That's my long explanation for why you haven't seen anything new here in a while. Now that Laird is well again and I'm getting caught up at the office, I'll be blogging again on a regular basis, so stay tuned! And special thanks to Rebecca and the rest of the folks at NCWIT (the National Center for Women & Information Technology) for sending Laird this awesome superhero cape! He certainly earned it.