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Apr
Our-Hometown customers are invited to join us on Friday, May 2nd at 11AM EST for another Live Webinar as part of our Block Editor Overview. This week, we’ll be focusing on Media and Images in the Block Editor. The Block Editor makes adding media to your post, page or article easier than ever — whether that is a simple photo, a complete photo gallery, or more advanced Cover Image style […]
17
Apr
Our-Hometown customers are invited to join us tomorrow, April 18th at 11AM EST for Part 3 of our Block Editor Overview webinar series. This week’s presentation will focus primarily on Block Patterns and how you can utilize them to save time and enhance your product with more complex and intricate layouts. Block Patterns are a pre-arranged set of Blocks saved as a template that you can quickly re-use with the […]
10
Apr
Our-Hometown invites you to join us for another customer-only webinar TOMORROW, April 11th at 11AM EST where we will continue our deep-dive into the Block Editor. This week, we’ll be focusing on Navigating the Block Editor and showcasing where to find the popular tools and blocks that make building your webpage or article a breeze. Our team will help get you acquainted with the Block Editor‘s user interface, introduce you […]
27
Mar
Our-Hometown invites you to join us for a customer-only webinar on Friday, April 4th at 11AM EST where our team will provide an in-depth overview of the powerful Block Editor and its various features available on our WordPress platform. We’ve recently upgraded our platform to include the latest version of WordPress, as well as the latest versions of most of the plugins we offer. The core functionality has remained largely […]
17
Mar
Attention Our-Hometown customers, We will be performing routine server maintenance this weekend in the early-morning hours of Saturday, March 22nd. Due to the nature of this maintenance, all Our-Hometown websites and services will be offline for a brief period of up to 30 minutes. To limit disruptions to your readers, we will begin maintenance at approximately 3AM Eastern Time on Saturday, March 22nd and expect it to be completed within […]
10
Mar
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Our-Hometown’s original founder, Stephen Larson (December 10, 1953 – February 27, 2025). We invite you all to join us in celebrating Steve’s life and his revolutionary contributions to the news publishing industry. Steve founded Our-Hometown, Inc. in the late 1990s with the goal of helping communities leverage new technologies to share their local news online and establish an online […]
3
Feb
Our-Hometown invites you to join us on Thursday, February 6th at 3PM Eastern for a LIVE WEBINAR on using AI Tools to Summarize Public Meetings. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to leverage Our Hometown’s new AI tools to efficiently summarize lengthy YouTube transcripts of public meetings, such as city council or school board sessions. We’ll demonstrate how to create time-stamped summaries that highlight key discussion points and decisions, providing […]
7
Oct
Our-Hometown is happy to welcome The Times-Independent of Moab, Utah to our Neighborhood of Publishers! Publisher Zane Taylor has recognized the importance of creating a valuable digital product for readers and connected with Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson while searching for a new web publishing solution. Mr. Taylor expressed interested in a fresh, modern website that is mobile-friendly and well-equipped with tools to generate revenue online. Days later, we […]
7
Oct
At Our-Hometown, we’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about how the newspaper industry is evolving to a more digital-oriented landscape, perhaps faster than ever thanks in large part to the coronavirus pandemic. One theme we’ve touched on repeatedly is how you can repurpose media content and distribute it in more than one way and across more than one platform. One great example of this line of thinking is […]
5
Oct
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson hosted another session of Office Hours on Monday. The focus this week was on Our-Hometown’s Google Docs Add-On, which essentially bridges the gap between word processing and digital publishing for customers who are already accustomed to using Google Docs in their daily workflow. The Google Docs Add-On brings all of the tools and options you would normally find when editing or creating an article in WordPress straight […]
