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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 […]
4
Oct
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that our next Virtual Conference: Getting Started with Video will take place on Friday, October 16th at 12PM! Adapting to the new reality of a “digital-first” newspaper industry may require some commitment to producing various forms of high-quality media to help your website stand out, and to offer readers benefits that wouldn’t exist in the print edition. The most common form of media that can […]
4
Oct
Our-Hometown is happy to offer a special One-Month FREE Trial* of our Google Docs Add-On to any customers interested in getting some hands-on experience with the tool! Our-Hometown’s Google Docs Add-On is an add-on that connects your Google Docs workspace with your website, allowing staff members to draft and edit article content in one of the most popular word processing tools on the web — Google Docs — before publishing directly to your […]
30
Sep
The recently announced Platform-wide Rollout of the GDPR Privacy Policy Popup has been completed successfully and this feature is now live on your website. When visiting the website for the first time, readers will see a popup along the bottom of their screen noting that by continuing to use the site, they are agreeing to your site’s Privacy Policy. The reader can click the Accept button to hide this popup or they can click the Privacy Policy button to […]
28
Sep
Our-Hometown President and CEO Matt Larson hosted another session of Office Hours on Monday, continuing his demonstration of our Reverse Publishing Suite and related tools & processes for optimizing your newspaper’s workflow. Article Statuses are a great way for a team of writers to keep their content organized by setting the status of each article they work on or publish. Statuses range from “Pitch” and “Draft”, which indicate the story is either still […]
