August, 2020 - - Page 2

Add a Watermark to protect your photos and images!

Add a Watermark to protect your photos and images!

Stop giving away your photos for free! Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform includes a Watermark plugin that allows you to easily apply an overlay of your logo to any photos uploaded to your website, protecting them from would-be thieves who want to re-use the content for their own benefit. This feature is included free with all Our-Hometown websites! Once the plugin is enabled, the watermark you setup can be automatically applied […]

Virtual Conference Recap: Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews

Virtual Conference Recap: Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews

Our-Hometown’s latest Virtual Conference on Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews took place this past Friday. In this presentation, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson highlighted the importance of being able to use a single piece of media to create multiple different pieces of content for your audience. One way to apply this strategy is to take a video interview conducted over video conferencing software such as Zoom or GoToMeeting and re-purpose […]

Office Hours Recap: Using the Customize Tool

Office Hours Recap: Using the Customize Tool

Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson hosted another session of Office Hours yesterday afternoon, demonstrating the power of the Customize Tool available on all websites on Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform.  Watch and enjoy the full-length video replay below to learn how to customize your website using this incredible tool!

Our-Hometown Virtual Conference: Rethinking Paywalls for Paid Print Newspapers

Our-Hometown Virtual Conference: Rethinking Paywalls for Paid Print Newspapers

Our-Hometown will be hosting another Virtual Conference on Friday, August 21st at 12PM EDT on the topic of Rethinking Paywalls for Paid Print Newspapers. During the conference, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson will introduce the different paywall configurations available on our WordPress Publishing Platform and discuss how to incorporate each type into a strategy that works for your publication. We recently published a blog post detailing the different types of Paywalls offered on our websites, which […]

Our-Hometown’s Matt Larson will be presenting at this year’s NNA Convention!

Our-Hometown’s Matt Larson will be presenting at this year’s NNA Convention!

The National Newspaper Association’s 134th Annual Convention & Trade Show will be anything but conventional, with presenters and attendees from around the world congregating digitally via the remote conferencing software Zoom this October. Our-Hometown will be in attendance, and fortunately, as one of the industry pioneers of using virtual conferences during the pandemic, Our-Hometown’s CEO Matt Larson has plenty of experience with giving engaging and informative digital presentations! Matt will […]

Our-Hometown Virtual Conference: Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews

Our-Hometown Virtual Conference: Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews

Our-Hometown is excited to announce our upcoming Virtual Conference: Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews. The COVID-19 shutdown has resulted in the unprecedented adoption of virtual collaboration tools for remote work, most notably video sharing software such as Zoom, GoToMeeting, and other similar alternatives. While we certainly wish the reason for the sudden need for remote conferencing was different, these tools are actually extremely useful for producing high-quality […]

Scheduling Articles & PDFs to Publish in the Future

Scheduling Articles & PDFs to Publish in the Future

One of the many benefits of using Our-Hometown’s WordPress Platform is that newspapers can schedule Articles and PDFs to publish at any time in the future. There is never any need to wake up early and manually update your website with the day’s new content. Instead, your staff can prepare an entire edition’s worth of stories and PDFs throughout the week and schedule them to go live at a specific time on […]

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