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23
Sep
Here at Our Hometown, we try to stay on top of the latest developments when it comes to online newspaper publishing. In this News Brief, we’re highlighting a piece by Mark Jacob over at the Northwestern Local News Initiative which conducted interviews with publishers about the ways dedicated news apps have impacted papers’ subscriber engagement. The article, “Local News Outlets Upgrading Apps and Battling App-rehension,” discusses the ways news apps […]
21
Sep
Here at Our Hometown, we try to stay on top of the latest developments when it comes to online newspaper publishing. In this News Brief, we’re highlighting a piece by Micaeli Rourke over at Digital Content Next about the ways podcasting is impacting ad revenue. “The podcast advertising market continues to rise steadily, quarter after quarter.” – said Micaeli Rourke The article, “As podcasting soars, advertising follows,” discusses the ways […]
20
Sep
National Public Radio (NPR) recently interviewed Our-Hometown, Inc. customer and friend Art Cullen from the Storm Lake Times and has published the full audio of the conversation online, along with a text transcription. The Storm Lake Times is being featured in an upcoming PBS documentary named “Storm Lake”, prompting Art to join NPR host Dave Davies to discuss the family-oriented newspaper. To read or listen to the entire interview on […]
19
Sep
Our-Hometown has made the difficult decision to end our relationship with our e-mail service provider, Rackspace. The quality of service of Rackspace has degraded over the past year to the point where it is no longer a viable service. Emails are no longer being delivered reliably and Rackspace has refused to allow communication from the website server to their email service. They are unable, or unwilling, to resolve numerous issues […]
18
Sep
At Our-Hometown, the security of our customers’ websites and data is one of our top priorities. The following are tips and features designed to keep your website secure.
16
Sep
Here at Our Hometown, we try to stay on top of the latest developments when it comes to online newspaper publishing. In this News Brief, we’re highlighting a piece by Joshua Benton over at Nieman Lab about upcoming changes to Apple’s News Partner Program. The article, “Apple now wants to be your “News Partner” (meaning they’ll let you keep more of your readers’ cash if you join Apple News),” discusses […]
13
Sep
Our-Hometown, Inc. is excited to announce that the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series has been extended to include several more informative LIVE WEBINARS, all of which are open to Our-Hometown customers free of charge! During the first round of webinars included in our partnership, Kevin covered several highly-relevant topics, and many of our customers were able to immediately apply his expertise to their digital publishing workflow. The feedback we received was […]
11
Sep
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson was recently joined by Pason Gaddis and Jim Dickerson, two-thirds of the leadership team at Florida Media Group, LLC — the publishers behind one of Florida’s largest weekly news magazines, Florida Weekly. In Part 1 of the Interview, the trio discusses an exciting new project Florida Weekly is working on that involves using touchless mobile displays to feature their own news content in various […]
11
Sep
Last week, Grant Hamilton of Neighbor-to-Neighbor News — the publishing group behind the East Aurora Advertiser and several other community newspapers in the Western New York region — published a new podcast episode that we feel perfectly exemplifies the use of audio technology in the news publishing world. (You may remember Grant from the Industry Interview we published just a couple of weeks ago, where he detailed his experience with […]
9
Sep
The Google Docs Add-On allows you to connect your Google Docs account with your Our-Hometown website so that you can easily publish content directly from your Google Docs workspace to the web without having to switch between multiple platforms or copy and paste content.