Hey
lauren... see what happens when you ask!
Ask 20 different designers and you'll get an equal number of different and objective opinions and suggestions! That's the beauty of a site like this!
I love your 'dangling' star from your corpoate name!
It creates a "logo" that speaks volumes!
I do think, though, that you need to 'sharpen' this image up by creating it in a vector format...
Forget the 'texture effect' that you've got going on the star... stick with a simple 2-3 col design.
Why the wire (which is distracting) twisting around the star? In logo design, you have to remember that "less is more".
I like the idea of just "hooking" the star onto a dangling letter of your logo, as
dubya has shown!.
And, by all means, if you insist on using this image on a white background (i.e. letterhead, business cards, etc.) you should put some kind of a contrasting background around it.
hedsteve's "cloud" is brilliant!
Do drop the 'drop shadow'... and I love the contrast of the 'signature effect against the traditional "serif" ... maybe just thicken it up and try giving it a 'keyline' (outline) effect to lend more emphasis.
Finally... overall, think in terms of 'simplify'...
Once the 'basic design' (for print) is complete, then yeah... take those next steps to "fancy it up" (via various effects) for web use.