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22
Feb
By now, you’ve probably read about our awesome new product, Audio Articles Podcast, which automatically converts all of the text articles on your website into audio podcast episodes and distributes them across all of the major podcasting networks with some help from our friends at BuzzSprout. We think our Audio Articles Podcast tool is a great way to get your feet wet in the wide world of podcasting, but BuzzSprout offers some […]
17
Feb
Attention Our-Hometown customers! We recently launched an exciting new Add On for our existing Audio Articles product: Audio Articles Podcast! Audio Articles Podcast automatically converts your existing Audio Articles into individual Episodes and uploads them to a BuzzSprout account, where they are then distributed across all of the major podcasting networks: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and many more. Importantly, while Audio Articles only allows you to listen to the article currently opened […]
16
Feb
Here at Our-Hometown, we’ve made Automation one of our key areas of focus in 2021. We’ve already released two new features this year that aim to help publishers automate what are normally time-consuming processes: Audio Articles Podcast for automatically creating podcast episodes from article content on your website, and Social Media Autopost for sharing your content across various social media networks. Today, we’re formally adding a third feature to that […]
9
Feb
View Post Kevin Slimp aka “The News Guru” hosted a special live webinar last week focused on some advanced techniques for creating a quality print layout in Adobe InDesign. Thanks to a special partnership with Our-Hometown, many of our customers were able to attend at no cost! Kevin covered a ton of great information during his presentation, and while it would be impossible to compact everything he went over into a single […]
2
Feb
Our-Hometown recently expanded the capabilities of our Audio Articles product, adding an exciting new automated podcast feature — and we’re offering a FREE TRIAL for a limited time! Audio Articles Podcast uses the audio files that are generated for each audio article to create new podcast episodes and publish them across all of the major podcasting channels via BuzzSprout. Our platform communicates with BuzzSprout using their specialized API to deliver the audio files and […]
2
Feb
Our-Hometown is excited to announce a special Virtual Conference on SEO for Newspaper Publishers set to take place on February 18th at 1PM Eastern time. Joining Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson will be renowned SEO consultant, Michael Cottam. Cottam will lead the discussion and introduce the audience to the basics of Search Engine Optimization before going more in-depth on how Google’s specific algorithms work to rank search results. He’ll […]
26
Jan
As we work to finalize some details on our upcoming slate of Virtual Conferences and Webinars, we felt it would be a good opportunity to offer a quick refresher on using the MemberPress software to manage memberships and subscriptions on our platform. More specifically, we’re going to focus on Transactions — the driving force behind managing memberships and granting members access to premium content! Transactions are created any time a customer makes a […]
24
Jan
In Australia, a legal battle is being waged as Australian legislators seek to pass a law that would force Google to compensate publishers for the value their content generates for the search engine. More specifically, they’re targeting the excerpts of articles that are displayed in Google’s search results. Google responded this week by threatening to disable the search engine, which is responsible for at least 94% of all internet searches […]
22
Jan
Our-Hometown is thrilled to sponsor an upcoming Virtual Conference hosted by Editor and Publisher Magazine on Adopting Automation to Increase Audience & Revenue, taking place on Wednesday, February 10th at 11 a.m. eastern time. Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson will be heading the discussion as a featured panelist, along with two of our favorite guests: Kristen Weaver of the Wilson County News and Guy Roginson of SignalsAZ.com. Mike Blinder, […]
19
Jan
We are excited to announce a special partnership with Kevin Slimp of NewspaperAcademy.com that allows any of our customers to attend his upcoming live webinar, Advanced InDesign for Newspaper Designers and Editors, at no cost! Slimp, also known as the News Guru, will be hosting the live webinar on February 5th beginning at 11am EST. His presentation will focus on using the popular Adobe InDesign software to produce print layouts […]
