Marketer and storyteller. Founder of Lieder Digital, Lieder AI, and WCAG Colorado. Author of The Solopreneur's Survival Guide to Business Networking, June 2026.https://ronstauffer.com/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/2010-mac-gems/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/2010-mac-gems/Ok, the end of the year is nearing, and so I think it's time that I share my votes for the best Mac Gems of 2010. Of course, I give full credit to the best m...Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:22:49 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/2013-csbj-rising-stars/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/2013-csbj-rising-stars/"The Colorado Springs Business Journal Rising Stars are those in the local community 40 and younger who have made significant strides in their careers and wh...Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:00:43 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/a-fathers-perspective-on-homebirth/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/a-fathers-perspective-on-homebirth/If you know me well, you probably know my family is a home birth family. Which means, of course, that we choose to give birth to our children at home with a...Sat, 04 May 2013 15:38:44 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/a-font-in-my-own-handwriting/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/a-font-in-my-own-handwriting/I just found the coolest service online: a way to turn my own handwriting into a font for my computer and, (as evidenced here), my own website. If you're pre...Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:50:15 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/a-warning-to-new-facebook-page-users/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/a-warning-to-new-facebook-page-users/There are some potential issues that brands that are new to Facebook Pages aren't thinking about. These include issues regarding security, privacy, moderation, and etiquette. Here are a few thoughts and observations I've made over the past few weeks.Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:53:55 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/ace-hardware-is-awesome/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/ace-hardware-is-awesome/I've noticed something in the past year or so: there are a lot of Ace Hardware stores popping up in Colorado Springs. Funny thing too—I thought Ace was on th...Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:58:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/adding-windows-media-to-a-mac/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/adding-windows-media-to-a-mac/So you've just bought a Mac and you're really excited about all the fun new features that come built in... and then while you're transferring old files from...Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:50:36 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/after-three-years-and-a-40-million-renovation-yosemites-mariposa-grove-reopens/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/after-three-years-and-a-40-million-renovation-yosemites-mariposa-grove-reopens/By Ron Stauffer YOSEMITE, Calif. — Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park has reopened to the public after a renovation project that lasted three years and...Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:00:46 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/analyzing-website-visitor-behavior-mobile-vs-desktop/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/analyzing-website-visitor-behavior-mobile-vs-desktop/Note: this is a guest blog post I was asked to write by the owner of a digital marketing agency in California. I'd never met him, but he contacted me saying...Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:00:18 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/apple-certified-associate/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/apple-certified-associate/Last week, I took an exam to prove to Apple that I understand their products and know how to use them. And I passed! So now it's official: I'm an Apple Certi...Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:25:55 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/apples-groundhog-day/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/apples-groundhog-day/Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage to announce a few new products and demo videos of the company's latest technology. The presentation, though offe...Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:00:54 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/apples-iphone-4-press-conference/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/apples-iphone-4-press-conference/I'm a big fan of Apple. Almost everything about the company is noteworthy. Steve Jobs is the consummate CEO for a tech company. Their products are second to...Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:56:49 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/ashley-photography/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/ashley-photography/I know a lot of photographers. So many, in fact, that I think I know more photographers than I do Realtors, and that's really saying something. However; ther...Mon, 16 May 2011 04:51:55 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/blank-canvas-syndrome/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/blank-canvas-syndrome/Something I've noticed over the years is that being creative isn't necessarily difficult for me, but starting a creative project is. It's the hardest part. T...Mon, 16 May 2011 04:15:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/book-review-purple-cow-by-seth-godin/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/book-review-purple-cow-by-seth-godin/After hearing all about it for so long, I finally bought " Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable " by Seth Godin. Seth is one of the few ma...Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:28:19 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/business-lessons-from-the-godfather/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/business-lessons-from-the-godfather/For those of you who've seen it, it's almost not even worth mentioning that The Godfather is one of the best movies ever made. Yes, it's a gangster movie. Ye...Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:25:15 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/business-lessons-tvs-shark-tank/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/business-lessons-tvs-shark-tank/I just discovered the TV show "Shark Tank" a few weeks ago and have been eagerly devouring each episode. Sure, I'd heard about the show a few years ago, but...Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:07:23 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/canceling-my-wells-fargo-account/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/canceling-my-wells-fargo-account/Last week, I did what I’ve wanted to do for years: I closed my Wells Fargo account. It felt good. Wells Fargo is an extremely convenient place to bank at, be...Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:26:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/city-councilman-tim-leigh/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/city-councilman-tim-leigh/Nearly everybody in Colorado Springs has, at one time or another, heard of Tim Leigh. And if you've heard of Tim Leigh, it wasn't just once. You've heard abo...Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:15:35 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/classic-car-antique-car-insurance/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/classic-car-antique-car-insurance/Note: This is a Q&A I created for an insurance agent who provides special insurance policies for classic cars and antique cars. This was part of a series of...Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:00:10 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/column-names-changes-and-stonewalling-in-yosemite-national-park/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/column-names-changes-and-stonewalling-in-yosemite-national-park/By Ron Stauffer YOSEMITE, Calif. — In January 2016, Yosemite National Park Superintendent Don Neubacher announced that a new organization had been hired to r...Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:00:18 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/come-follow-me-on-medium/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/come-follow-me-on-medium/Back in 2016, I created an account on medium.com just like (seemingly) everyone else on the internet. But I wasn't sure what to do with it. I even started by...Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:47:13 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/communication-the-pinnacle-of-human-achievement/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/communication-the-pinnacle-of-human-achievement/I'm a huge fan of writing. I love to see the written word on a page. Whether it's a printed page or an electronic page doesn't much matter to me; I love it a...Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:50:01 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/customer-quote-the-cloud/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/customer-quote-the-cloud/"Hey Ron, am I on the cloud?" -Quote from an Awesome CustomerThu, 29 Mar 2012 00:43:29 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/definition-of-a-content-farm/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/definition-of-a-content-farm/One of the hottest topics in search quality discussions so far in 2011 has been "Content Farms," and I think it's none too soon. I despise them. They give al...Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:10:06 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/discovering-the-city-that-care-forgot-new-orleans-louisiana/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/discovering-the-city-that-care-forgot-new-orleans-louisiana/About ten years ago, I was working at home one early summer day, sitting at my kitchen table listening to one of those early Internet radio stations (RealPla...Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:11:06 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/does-anybody-use-tag-clouds/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/does-anybody-use-tag-clouds/Recently I've really been trying to view websites through the eyes of users, and not as a web designer. As much as possible, I always try to ask myself " wou...Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:00:03 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/domain-checklist-5-questions-to-ask-about-your-domain/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/domain-checklist-5-questions-to-ask-about-your-domain/Does your company have a website? If so, you have a domain of some sort. Whether it ends in .com, .net, .us, or dot anything else, somebody at some point reg...Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:13:51 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/dont-buy-the-cheap-pens/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/dont-buy-the-cheap-pens/I have nothing against promotional products. I like promotional products. I like the people that sell them, and I like the amazing kinds of products that are...Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:29:14 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/dont-judge-a-car-by-its-cover/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/dont-judge-a-car-by-its-cover/I have a friend who repairs/restores cars for fun. He has several of them stashed in various places all over town at any given time (barns, garages, carports...Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:07:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/dont-track-me-bro/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/dont-track-me-bro/We live in an age when just about everybody, everywhere, is getting online and becoming more and more connected each year. Social networks keep adding huge n...Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:00:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/drop-the-bat-run-to-first/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/drop-the-bat-run-to-first/A few years ago, I wanted to introduce my oldest son to sports. He was probably four at the time, and after playing catch with him in the backyard during the...Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:56:25 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/employee-spotlight-15-questions-with-amanda-obringer/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/employee-spotlight-15-questions-with-amanda-obringer/Amanda Obringer is a Senior Web Designer and has worked at Infront Webworks for over three years. Today we decided to ask her a few questions about the web d...Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:00:03 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/free-parking-in-downtown-colorado-springs/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/free-parking-in-downtown-colorado-springs/Did you know there's a free parking lot right in Downtown Colorado Springs? There actually two areas right in the heart of Downtown that most people don't kn...Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:18:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/getting-the-job-part-1-resume-best-practices/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/getting-the-job-part-1-resume-best-practices/[ This is post one in a series of three called “ Getting the Job: Tips from a Hiring Manager ." ] Have you ever noticed how a job search is like a marketing...Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:47:26 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/google-adwords-certification/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/google-adwords-certification/I recently took two Google Exams: 1) Google Advertising Fundamentals and 2) Google Search Advertising Advanced Exam, and boy were they a doozy! (And by that...Mon, 21 May 2012 06:48:27 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/google-wave-the-email-killer-not/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/google-wave-the-email-killer-not/I've found the recent commentary on Google's decision to shut down Google Wave rather entertaining, and sometimes annoying. For several reasons. Here are a f...Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:53:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/guest-post-what-baseball-means-to-me/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/guest-post-what-baseball-means-to-me/[This is a guest post from my Uncle Mike. He's a great man, a great Uncle, a retired Marine, and a huge fan of Baseball. He's also the man I know as "Uncle F...Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:13:07 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/hang-gliding-in-lake-county-florida/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/hang-gliding-in-lake-county-florida/I recently took a trip to visit family in Florida to do some SCUBA diving, snorkeling, swimming, and other fun beach-type activities. What I didn't know, tho...Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:00:15 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/help-i-moved-a-window-off-my-screen/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/help-i-moved-a-window-off-my-screen/If you've accidentally moved a window off screen on you mac, don't panic. It's happened to me before as well. This usually happens when you've recently been...Fri, 20 May 2011 09:17:43 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-many-golf-balls-can-fit-in-a-school-bus/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-many-golf-balls-can-fit-in-a-school-bus/Have you ever heard that question before? If you have, it's probably because you've read somewhere that it's one of the questions that Google asks prospectiv...Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:32:38 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-not-to-connect-on-linkedin/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-not-to-connect-on-linkedin/Recently I've gotten several requests from people to connect on LinkedIn. Which is normally fine. But what I find annoying is when somebody I don't know—at a...Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:22:52 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-to-take-a-picture-of-a-text-message-on-an-iphone/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-to-take-a-picture-of-a-text-message-on-an-iphone/One of the coolest features on an iPhone is it's ability to take pictures (screenshots) of the screen. I find myself wanting to do this frequently, especiall...Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:46:31 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-to-upload-a-video-on-youtube/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/how-to-upload-a-video-on-youtube/Due to the fact that Google is constantly changing the layout on YouTube, I've gotten many requests from people asking about how to upload videos to their Yo...Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:58:04 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/ical-cant-verify-the-identity-of-the-server/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/ical-cant-verify-the-identity-of-the-server/So there's an incredibly annoying error message that pops up when you try to connect iCal to a CalDAV account. It goes like this: iCal can't verify the ident...Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:54:37 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/im-a-sucker-for-print-magazines/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/im-a-sucker-for-print-magazines/I'm a digital guy. I'm part of the digital generation that grew up with computers and cell phones. Technology is my friend! When I want to read the news, I g...Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:46:14 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/im-in-tucson-now/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/im-in-tucson-now/I've been blogging on and off (mostly off) since 2010. Aside from having an interesting place to store my inner musings publicly, almost nothing has ever com...Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:10:03 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/im-not-okay-and-that-needs-to-be-okay/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/im-not-okay-and-that-needs-to-be-okay/I'm not okay. Today, I turned 38, and it's been a really tough day. I have a lot on my mind right now, and a lot of complicated things are weighing me down....Thu, 24 Aug 2023 06:02:11 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/inbound-marketing-certified-professional/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/inbound-marketing-certified-professional/I just recently took the "Inbound Marketing University" training course and exam. I guess I should smile… because I can now say that I am an " Inbound Market...Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:29:02 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/insurance-for-atvs-four-wheelers-and-off-road-vehicles/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/insurance-for-atvs-four-wheelers-and-off-road-vehicles/Note: This is a Q&A I created for an insurance agent who provides special insurance policies for four-wheelers and other off-road vehicles. This was one of a...Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:00:19 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/insurance-for-boats-and-marine-vehicles/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/insurance-for-boats-and-marine-vehicles/Note: This is a Q&A I created for an insurance agent who provides special insurance policies for boats and marine vehicles like Ski-Doos and Wave Runners. Th...Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:00:32 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/interview-with-city-councilman-tim-leigh-faces-of-downtown/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/interview-with-city-councilman-tim-leigh-faces-of-downtown/Q: What first brought you to the Downtown Colorado Springs area? When was that? A: I was stationed here at Fort Carson in 1975, and at the same time was a Cl...Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:25 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/introducing-codecraft-schools-newest-web-development-instructor-raphael-serota/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/introducing-codecraft-schools-newest-web-development-instructor-raphael-serota/Raphael Serota is one of CodeCraft’s newest employees, and we’re excited to have him join our team as the lead instructor for our Full-Time Full-Stack Web De...Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:00:50 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/is-google-evil/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/is-google-evil/This week, The Guardian put out a scathing report on Google's business practices, called " Google's problem is that it now believes itself above others – eve...Sun, 20 May 2012 13:00:32 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-drone/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-drone/When I first heard the media stir about drones a couple of years ago, my mind recalled the male bees that live in a hive and do nothing but eat, sleep and br...Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:00:39 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-pronounced-stauffer-au-as-in-faucet/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-pronounced-stauffer-au-as-in-faucet/What are the more annoying things I've experienced in my lifetime is the fact that people just can't seem to pronounce my last name correctly. Really? Is it...Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:44:38 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-time-for-me-to-get-deadly-serious/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-time-for-me-to-get-deadly-serious/How My Wake-Up Call In an Emergency Room Is Changing Me Sometimes a trip to the Emergency Room puts things into perspective Last year, a few days before...Fri, 02 Sep 2022 05:45:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-time-to-go-electronic-for-real/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/its-time-to-go-electronic-for-real/I was talking to a client a while ago who happens to be my dad’s age. I told him that he needed to get an iPhone or Palm Pilot or some other electronic daily...Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:09:30 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/keyboard-shortcut-for-dont-save/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/keyboard-shortcut-for-dont-save/Here's an annoying little bug: when using most programs on a Mac, if you close (CMD+W) or quit the program (CMD+Q), you'll get a message asking " Do you want...Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:13:19 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/kozmo-com-overdue-for-extinction/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/kozmo-com-overdue-for-extinction/You know how there are some things in life that sound good on paper, but turn out to be not-so-great in real life? An idea where, when put into practice, you...Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:11:50 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/leadership-pikes-peak-alumni-stories-police-chief-pete-carey/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/leadership-pikes-peak-alumni-stories-police-chief-pete-carey/Note: This is an interview I conducted with Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey, who is an alumnus of Leadership Pikes Peak's Signature Program. Since 1...Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:00:51 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/lessons-from-a-customer/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/lessons-from-a-customer/A few years ago, I met with a customer who was an older gentleman in the roadbase and paving industry. I was asking him my standard questions before coming u...Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:28:56 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/lessons-from-the-darkroom/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/lessons-from-the-darkroom/I like photography a lot, and always have. I've always appreciated a well-done photograph and have devoted a few years of my life to learning how to compose,...Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:41:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/local-historian-brings-forgotten-wwi-history-to-life-at-longmont-museum/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/local-historian-brings-forgotten-wwi-history-to-life-at-longmont-museum/LONGMONT, Colo. — A small crowd came to the Longmont Museum Thursday to hear a lecture on the human element of World War I that featured humor and antique we...Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:00:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/looking-back-one-year-as-a-business-owner/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/looking-back-one-year-as-a-business-owner/It's been just over a full year since I took my web design company full-time. As I was driving home from a customer's office tonight, I had a few thoughts ab...Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:43:53 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/macworlds-shortened-urls/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/macworlds-shortened-urls/It's no secret—I like URL shorteners. A lot. And as long as my mind's still stuck on the subject of technologies that were ahead of their time... I was leafi...Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:45:23 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/make-my-website-1-in-google/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/make-my-website-1-in-google/Of all the questions I've heard in my few years in the business, there's one I hear far more often than any other. And I dread it every time I hear it: Can y...Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:36:56 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/measuring-sound-quality/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/measuring-sound-quality/(Shh… don’t tell anyone.) When I was growing up, while my parents were gone and we were home alone, I would find LPs from the Swedish disco band ABBA in the...Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:51:17 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/moving-to-colorado-springs-colorado-a-strange-experience/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/moving-to-colorado-springs-colorado-a-strange-experience/My family moved to Colorado Springs from Northern California in 1998. We came here for many reasons: clean air, minimal pollution, very little traffic, low c...Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:32:17 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/music-at-every-stage-of-life/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/music-at-every-stage-of-life/Last night, I went to a company party for the Christmas Caroling group I'm a member of. Since the company's season is during Christmas, the team gets togethe...Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:44:03 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/music-multitasking-and-me/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/music-multitasking-and-me/I'm a strange guy when it comes to multitasking. Some tasks, such as web page development (writing PHP and HTML) are kind of mindless tasks for me so I can w...Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:01:15 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-best-and-worst-marketing-story-ever/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-best-and-worst-marketing-story-ever/Here's a true story about a little company that had one of the most brilliant campaigns I've ever personally responded to. Background: I used to work in the...Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:49:09 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-dad-has-joined-the-mac-cult/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-dad-has-joined-the-mac-cult/I helped my Dad buy an iMac today. That means he has now officially joined the club. I dropped it off, and he asked me “Great, so how do I set it up? …wait,...Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:17:48 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-earliest-radio-memory/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-earliest-radio-memory/Growing up, my exposure to music on the radio was minimal. I wasn't allowed to play the radio on my own, but a lot of my young memories involve watching my d...Wed, 24 Jan 2018 02:01:53 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-email-with-hugh-syme/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-email-with-hugh-syme/Earlier this week, I was sorting through some emails from years past (way back in early 2009, to be precise), and stumbled across this one from when I first...Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:22:18 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-experience-going-back-to-school-10-years-later/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-experience-going-back-to-school-10-years-later/I was recently asked on Quora to answer a question relating to entrepreneurship and school: "Given the diverse and unique challenges faced by a startup, is i...Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:12:43 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-favorite-t-shirt-free-tibet/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-favorite-t-shirt-free-tibet/A few years ago, right when I first ventured into the scary waters of self-employment, I went to Kohl's and bought several pairs of slacks and button-up shir...Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:29:35 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-first-experience-pitching-a-business-idea/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-first-experience-pitching-a-business-idea/I love business. I love coming up with a new idea for a business; the process of building a business; marketing a business; and running a business. It's a to...Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:14:39 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-most-powerful-business-tool-the-iphone/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-most-powerful-business-tool-the-iphone/Every once in a while, when I pull out my iPhone to put in a calendar item or check my email, someone standing next to me will strike up a conversation about...Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:22:20 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-policy-on-blog-comments/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-policy-on-blog-comments/One of the most interesting aspects I've found about blogging (and the Internet in general) is the fact that people will comment on a particular blog post or...Wed, 24 Dec 2014 03:26:47 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-presentation-on-web-accessibility-at-the-boulder-wordpress-meetup/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-presentation-on-web-accessibility-at-the-boulder-wordpress-meetup/Here's a presentation I gave at the Boulder WordPress Meetup last week. It was right when COVID first hit, so I was (I think) the first person ever to give a...Thu, 26 Mar 2020 01:00:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-speech-on-seo-at-revenue-north-colorado-springs/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-speech-on-seo-at-revenue-north-colorado-springs/I recently gave a speech at a business summit in town called "Revenue North," which is a small conference of sorts for local business owners, all with the ma...Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:09:34 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-storytelling-degree-presentation-in-20-slides/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/my-storytelling-degree-presentation-in-20-slides/After over a decade and a half of college, I finally graduated at the age of 34. I got a Bachelor of Arts in Storytelling from Metro State University in Denv...Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:26:46 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/net-neutrality-is-dead-what-comes-next/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/net-neutrality-is-dead-what-comes-next/The Federal Communications Commission finally released the long-awaited new rules for regulating the internet, following its 3-2 vote in December to repeal n...Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:00:03 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/never-sit-in-the-same-chair/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/never-sit-in-the-same-chair/I like taking classes. Especially classes outside of a traditional school environment, and when I don't have to do homework. So I take lots of them. I take e...Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:34:39 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/nfc-payments-are-a-dumb-dumb-idea/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/nfc-payments-are-a-dumb-dumb-idea/Among the many fledgling technologies creating buzz in 2012, I personally think that NFC (Near Field Communication) is the worst. Though all NFC technically...Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:08:43 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/parking-problems-in-downtown-colorado-springs/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/parking-problems-in-downtown-colorado-springs/[Note: since I wrote this post, I've also written a post about a few places for free parking in Downtown Colorado Springs here. You may want to check that ou...Thu, 03 May 2012 06:31:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/parkour-is-not-a-crime/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/parkour-is-not-a-crime/[Note: This is a guest post, from my little brother, Ryan Stauffer. He's 17, and lives outside Pueblo, Colorado. As you will see, he clearly has a passion fo...Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:33:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/pops-williams-who-lives-on-the-streets/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/pops-williams-who-lives-on-the-streets/By Ron Stauffer LONGMONT, COLORADO - When Russ Williams' family moved from Montana to Colorado in 1958, his first few days here were a shocking surprise. He...Mon, 03 Sep 2018 23:01:54 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/profile-on-butterfly-pavilion-ceo-patrick-tennyson/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/profile-on-butterfly-pavilion-ceo-patrick-tennyson/WESTMINSTER, Colo. — From the very beginning, Patrick Tennyson, Butterfly Pavilion's president and CEO, knew he wanted to work with animals. As early as the...Sun, 01 Apr 2018 13:00:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-u-certification/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/rackspace-cloud-u-certification/I recently took an exam about Cloud Computing from Rackspace, to test my knowledge in how Cloud Computing works, who the big players are, what the benefits a...Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:25:15 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/random-thoughts/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/random-thoughts/I've used this blog over the past couple years to write down random thoughts from time to time, as well as much more involved, bigger pieces. I usually spend...Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:28:19 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/read-my-posts-at-the-colorado-springs-independent/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/read-my-posts-at-the-colorado-springs-independent/I have some happy news to share—if you haven't seen many blog posts here recently, there's a reason. I'm now a featured blogger at the Colorado Springs Indep...Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:18:44 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/remember-aol-keywords/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/remember-aol-keywords/How many of you remember watching TV about a decade ago, and seeing commercials for large, well-known companies (and I mean really large ones—say, for exampl...Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:54:40 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/remember-those-old-disposable-dvds/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/remember-those-old-disposable-dvds/Today's subject is the history of technology, and predictions we used to make about where we'd be today. So, if I really wanted to, I could go way back in ti...Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:24:11 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/rons-rants-copyright-notices/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/rons-rants-copyright-notices/Ok, rant time. You know how sometimes you're searching for something online, or looking through a photo album for an event, and you find a great photo, but i...Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:23:32 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/seo-test-for-employers-hiring-internet-marketers/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/seo-test-for-employers-hiring-internet-marketers/When I left my position as the Marketing Director for Infront Webworks earlier this year, I was asked to help hire my replacement. I was happy to do so, beca...Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:43:32 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/should-i-join-a-bni-chapter/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/should-i-join-a-bni-chapter/I'm a guy who's into networking, meeting other business people, and making relationships, and doing business. So, naturally, when I found out about BNI (Busi...Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:32:33 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/should-i-join-a-toastmasters-club/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/should-i-join-a-toastmasters-club/I'm a big fan of conquering my weaknesses and fears. I like to identify what they are, finding out why I'm afraid of them, and then do whatever it takes to o...Sun, 02 Feb 2014 07:00:30 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/silly-job-titles/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/silly-job-titles/I've always been amazed at the creative titles some people use to describe what they do. Job titles are a frustrating thing; some employers make a huge deal...Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:15:16 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/social-injustice-at-ink-coffee-in-denver/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/social-injustice-at-ink-coffee-in-denver/DENVER — In November of 2017, ink! Coffee, a locally-owned coffee shop with multiple locations in Denver found themselves in hot water after unveiling a mark...Thu, 08 Feb 2018 06:36:04 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/solving-the-worlds-problems-while-running/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/solving-the-worlds-problems-while-running/I like running. I'm a running maniac. And by that, I don't mean I run a tremendous distance every time I run because I don't. I'm not like some of those craz...Sun, 27 Aug 2023 06:49:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/square-card-reader/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/square-card-reader/Here's a pretty cool video I found that talks about the Square card reader . (I've got one of these, by the way, and it's totally awesome). Here, the Wall St...Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:58:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/steve-jobs-forecasts-the-future-of-the-web/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/steve-jobs-forecasts-the-future-of-the-web/I recently watched a video called " Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview ," which has some never-before-seen footage of an interview with Steve Jobs from 1995. I m...Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:54 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/steve-wozniak-in-colorado-springs/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/steve-wozniak-in-colorado-springs/Earlier this week, I went to go see Steve Wozniak speak right here in Colorado Springs. He came to an event put on by the Business Journal called "Celebrate...Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:00:39 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/take-me-off-your-text-message-list/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/take-me-off-your-text-message-list/A while ago, I was zipping down the interstate, listening to the radio (which I rarely do.) There was a contest to win tickets to see Kenny Chensey live, and...Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:18:29 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-annoying-front-door-guy-at-best-buy/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-annoying-front-door-guy-at-best-buy/I went to Best Buy last week, and walked in the door at my normal, slightly-brisk walking pace. I had some spring in my step, but I wasn't walking abnormally...Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:03:44 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-annual-bison-roundup-at-tallgrass/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-annual-bison-roundup-at-tallgrass/By Ron Stauffer TULSA, Okla. — It's a cold and foggy morning at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, where cowboys work for the second day in a row in their week-...Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:00:42 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-best-ad-of-super-bowl-2013/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-best-ad-of-super-bowl-2013/Ok, I confess: I didn't watch the Superbowl on Sunday. Actually, I haven't watched a Super Bowl in several years—the last one I actually watched all the way...Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:02:18 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-burn-in-listerine-a-brilliant-marketing-ploy/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-burn-in-listerine-a-brilliant-marketing-ploy/Are you a mouthwash person? If so, you’re like millions of others who value their oral hygiene. And like millions of others, you probably don’t know which mo...Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:36:36 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-can-spam-act-in-plain-english/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-can-spam-act-in-plain-english/Email marketing and digital marketing are fantastic ways for businesses to boost their sales and keep their customers up to date on what they're doing. It's...Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:52 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-colorado-springs-police-departments-citizens-academy/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-colorado-springs-police-departments-citizens-academy/A few years ago, I signed up to attend the Citizen's Academy that's put on by the Colorado Springs Police Department. It's an 11 week class that gives you, a...Wed, 15 Jul 2015 05:21:55 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-dancing-fox-lodge-in-woodland-park/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-dancing-fox-lodge-in-woodland-park/Stauffer & Sons Construction built a custom home for Neil and Barbara Bruce in Woodland Park, Colo., back in 2011. It's been about five years since we built...Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:00:01 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-drive-that-gets-lost/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-drive-that-gets-lost/A few years ago, when I was in the construction industry, at one point, the company I worked for had over twenty field employees. We were constantly hiring,...Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:33:13 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-easiest-way-to-make-a-million-dollars/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-easiest-way-to-make-a-million-dollars/Of all the financial advice I've ever gotten in my life, one particular quote about money stands out more than any other. It wasn't advice from a financial p...Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:41:36 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-humble-beginnings-of-stocktons-own-billionaire-alex-spanos/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-humble-beginnings-of-stocktons-own-billionaire-alex-spanos/STOCKTON, Calif. — Ask anybody who has lived in California's Central Valley over the past few decades if they're familiar with the name Alex Spanos, and you'...Sat, 30 Jun 2018 07:00:51 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-limits-of-technology-when-eharmony-failed/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-limits-of-technology-when-eharmony-failed/True story: I once signed up for eHarmony. Well, let me clarify—I never "dated" using eHarmony, but I did create an account. But I had a good reason. Once, n...Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:27:28 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-most-important-parts-of-an-ecommerce-website/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-most-important-parts-of-an-ecommerce-website/Photography It’s shocking to me how hard it is to get merchants to actually spend money on photography, when the only thing that will allow a potential custo...Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:54:04 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-most-important-word-a-business-owner-can-learn/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-most-important-word-a-business-owner-can-learn/A few years ago, I heard a radio ad while driving down the road where the whole premise was " We Do That ." The ad went like this: you listen in to a phone c...Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:09:40 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-roadside-tamale-man/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-roadside-tamale-man/The other day I finally did it—I actually stopped at one of the little roadside stands with the tiny cardboard sign that says “ tamales 4 sale .” As soon as...Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:25:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-uber-eats-25-off-promo-proves-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/the-uber-eats-25-off-promo-proves-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/I ended up paying $7.57 out of pocket and didn't even get what I ordered The older I get, the more annoyed I get with what seems like the endless number of c...Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:00:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/things-that-bug-me-about-apple-products/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/things-that-bug-me-about-apple-products/Sometimes, people (usually those who are sold on Microsoft Windows) like to say that Apple users are "fanboys." This is a pejorative term of sorts, and what...Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:00:17 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/thoughts-on-zoom/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/thoughts-on-zoom/There are some big, scary headlines floating around in the news about Zoom. Some are worth paying attention to, and some aren’t that big a deal. Here are some basic thoughts on the topic.Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:00:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/three-giants-breaking-up-the-healthcare-monopoly/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/three-giants-breaking-up-the-healthcare-monopoly/Earlier this week, the world was shocked by the announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan are going to partner to create a new of healthcar...Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:41:26 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/time-to-testify-at-the-state-capitol/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/time-to-testify-at-the-state-capitol/Today I went to the Colorado State Capitol and testified to the House Education Committee for one bill and against another bill. It was a fascinating experie...Tue, 27 Mar 2018 02:48:59 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/townhome-condo-insurance-for-hoas/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/townhome-condo-insurance-for-hoas/Note: This is a Q&A I created for an insurance agent who provides special insurance policies for townhomes and condos. This was one of a series of several ar...Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:00:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/trip-hot-air-balloon-modern-trip-ancient-vehicle/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/trip-hot-air-balloon-modern-trip-ancient-vehicle/This past Labor Day weekend, a big event took place in Colorado Springs that drew hundreds of people from all over the country, and even a few people from ou...Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:00:39 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/tumblr-in-under-one-hour/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/tumblr-in-under-one-hour/Ok, I admit it. I'm a web developer and I'm using Tumblr. Sue me. :) In all honestly, I'm completely stunned by my very first try with the the world's suppos...Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:30:06 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-a-url/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-a-url/Have you ever been on a website before, and noticed in the address bar that the simple little www.example.com you've typed in turned into something very long...Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:05:36 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-ride-share-insurance-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-ride-share-insurance-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers/Note: This is a Q&A I created for an insurance agent who provides special insurance policies for Uber & Lyft drivers. This was one of a series of several art...Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:00:42 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-umbrella-insurance/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-umbrella-insurance/Note: This is a Q&A I created for an insurance agent who provides special insurance policies such as umbrella policies. This was one of a series of several a...Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:00:57 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-your-internet-bill/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/understanding-your-internet-bill/I got a letter in the mail from my internet service provider last week. Inside it was my bill. Also inside it was a tri-fold brochure called " Understanding...Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:16:44 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/using-qr-codes-its-as-easy-as-1234567/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/using-qr-codes-its-as-easy-as-1234567/QR Codes are the best thing that's ever happened to the Internet, if you believe the hype. What do I think of them? Just check out this side-by-side comparis...Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:58:44 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/utterly-useless-marketing-terms/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/utterly-useless-marketing-terms/Marketing is a strange industry. It's both an art and a science. When a marketing campaign is done right, it can be downright electrifying. And when it's don...Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:12:15 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-1970s-fig-newton-commercial/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-1970s-fig-newton-commercial/I like TV commercials. I especially like a TV commercial that inspires me to actually want to buy a product. When I see a good ad, I cheer. When I see a bad...Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:31:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-interview-with-37signals-jason-fried/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-interview-with-37signals-jason-fried/I like studying. I like listening to audiobooks, reading books and watching interviews. I especially like getting the input of a select few brilliant minds i...Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:42:28 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-steven-colbert-interviews-eric-schmidt/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-steven-colbert-interviews-eric-schmidt/I don't watch Stephen Colbert. I don't think he's funny. Even more than that, I have no patience for senseless political banter. But in some strange way, in...Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:57:11 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-things-i-learned-at-my-first-video-shoot/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-things-i-learned-at-my-first-video-shoot/I recently worked with a videographer to make two videos for a new video marketing service I wanted to start. I'd never really stood in front of a camera bef...Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:24:28 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-time-lapse-video-of-me-at-work/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-time-lapse-video-of-me-at-work/For those of you who aren't exactly sure what a webmaster does all day long, I created a small time-lapse video of me at work. Until recently, I'd have sever...Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:28:47 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-what-is-twitter/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-what-is-twitter/What is Twitter? This is easily the question I've heard the most since I started working in Internet Marketing. A lot of people just don't get Twitter, and t...Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:19:50 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-why-use-online-video/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/video-why-use-online-video/It's video time again! This time around, I made an online video to tell you all about... online video! Why? Well, I could explain everything by writing parag...Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:35:48 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/waldo-canyon-fire-survivors-jerry-tina-pati/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/waldo-canyon-fire-survivors-jerry-tina-pati/Jerry & Tina Pati lived in the Parkside neighborhood in Colorado Springs for over 26 years when the tragic Waldo Canyon fire destroyed their home in June of...Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:00:25 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/waldo-canyon-fire-survivors-ken-kris-rose/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/waldo-canyon-fire-survivors-ken-kris-rose/Ken & Kris Rose have lived in the Parkside neighborhood in Colorado Springs since 1986 when the subdivision was still brand new. Ken remembers what the neigh...Fri, 23 May 2014 13:00:22 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/we-are-moving-boulder-bust/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/we-are-moving-boulder-bust/Big news in the Stauffer family: we're moving! Later this month, I will be uprooting my family of seven and heading north to Boulder, Colorado. I haven't mad...Tue, 17 May 2016 19:04:04 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/we-must-change-the-way-we-talk-and-report-about-suicide/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/we-must-change-the-way-we-talk-and-report-about-suicide/"Died unexpectedly, at the age of 35," my friend's obituary began. Reading the whole entry, I might have come to the conclusion that he was an unfortunate vi...Tue, 01 May 2018 13:00:19 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-ever-happened-to-blogs/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-ever-happened-to-blogs/Remember blogs? Many years ago, I remember doing searches on “my favorite search engine” (usually Yahoo or Ask.com back then) for various things like song ly...Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:00:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-i-mean-when-i-say-cool/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-i-mean-when-i-say-cool/Something I’ve recently caught myself doing is calling features and benefits “cool” when talking to friends and customers. For me, this is natural, and it’s...Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:29:55 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-is-dogfooding/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-is-dogfooding/So there's an important concept in the tech world that has a very strange name... I tell clients about the concept frequently, and usually get laughter when...Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:41:31 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-is-twitter-and-should-you-use-it/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-is-twitter-and-should-you-use-it/This is a video I created a few years ago with a videographer to be able to explain to my friends and clients exactly what Twitter is. I created the concept,...Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:53:38 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-is-user-experience-design-and-why-does-it-matter/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-is-user-experience-design-and-why-does-it-matter/This is a video I helped create with the talented folks at CodeCraft School of Technology in Boulder, CO. I wrote the questions, prepared and interviewed the...Tue, 01 Aug 2017 13:00:08 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-marketing-is-not/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/what-marketing-is-not/Every once in a while I'll hear somebody make comments about how the essence of marketing is to " throw stuff out there and see what sticks ." Normally I don...Fri, 20 May 2011 17:15:51 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/when-i-met-astronaut-charlie-duke/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/when-i-met-astronaut-charlie-duke/Today, I went to a luncheon and got to hear from General Charlie Duke, a former NASA Astronaut. He spent 71 hours on the surface of the moon with Apollo 16,...Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:00:14 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/when-i-met-brian-dennehy/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/when-i-met-brian-dennehy/Earlier this week, the actor Brian Dennehy came to Colorado Springs (UCCS, more specifically, where I'm a student on a very part-time basis). I signed up for...Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:00:45 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/when-i-met-general-martin-dempsey/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/when-i-met-general-martin-dempsey/In my spare time, I am a volunteer with a little marketing group in town called COSthink. We meet twice a month take on marketing projects for local organiza...Fri, 24 May 2013 04:22:21 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-have-a-website/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-have-a-website/[About two years ago, I gave a presentation to a business group about websites and their effectiveness as a marketing tool. I've had this sitting in my "draf...Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:59:56 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-learn-ux-design-at-codecraft/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-learn-ux-design-at-codecraft/This is the second of two videos I helped create with the talented folks at CodeCraft School of Technology in Boulder, CO. I wrote the questions, prepared an...Fri, 01 Sep 2017 13:00:21 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-not-to-use-a-co-domain/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-not-to-use-a-co-domain/A while ago, I received an email from a friend asking if he should get a .CO domain for his website. I thought for a while, and gave him my answer. "No." He...Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:59:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-use-online-video-for-your-business/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/why-use-online-video-for-your-business/This is a video I created a few years ago with a videographer to showcase the most powerful medium for communication we have in the 21st Century: video. I co...Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:55:27 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/would-you-like-to-drive-home-in-a-ford-today/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/would-you-like-to-drive-home-in-a-ford-today/About seven years ago, right after my wife and I were married, we went on our very first shopping trip as a married couple, to furnish our brand new apartmen...Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:12:53 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/wow-i-didnt-know-you-sang/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/wow-i-didnt-know-you-sang/I'm a pretty private person. People who know me might be aware of this, but I don't think they have a clue just how private I am. You could say I'm "guarded,...Sun, 28 Dec 2014 04:51:23 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/yes-this-is-an-ipad-now-leave-me-alone/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/yes-this-is-an-ipad-now-leave-me-alone/I love my iPad. I also hate my iPad. Here's why. When I need some quiet time to think, or relax, I’ll often go to my home away from home (Starbucks), pull ou...Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:23:00 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/yosemite-national-park-draws-professionals-and-volunteers/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/yosemite-national-park-draws-professionals-and-volunteers/By Ron Stauffer YOSEMITE, Calif. — Judy Craig retired from teaching 18 years ago. But she's spent a month each summer for the past eight years volunteering a...Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:00:44 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/you-are-what-you-wear/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/you-are-what-you-wear/Everybody knows you are what you eat. But did you know it's also true that you are what you wear? The reality, though unfair, is that whether you believe thi...Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:02:06 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/your-brother-is-dead-the-phone-call-that-changed-my-life-forever/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/your-brother-is-dead-the-phone-call-that-changed-my-life-forever/Three years ago, to this day, I got a call that changed my life forever. On Friday, September 25th, 2020, I was playing with my kids outside in front of our...Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:18:40 GMTBloghttps://ronstauffer.com/blog/your-internet-speed-megabits-vs-megabytes/https://ronstauffer.com/blog/your-internet-speed-megabits-vs-megabytes/I called my ISP the other day (Qwest) to ask for an upgrade on the speed of my DSL line at home. When I did, I learned something very interesting: Qwest empl...Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:45:37 GMTBlog