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Latest from Our Hometown - - Page 26
2
Nov
Our-Hometown’s latest Virtual Conference on Getting Started with Audio Podcasts took place this past Thursday, where President & CEO Matt Larson was joined by Tom Lappas of the Henrico Citizen to discuss the ins & outs of podcasting and what it takes to get your production off the ground. Tom and his staff have the process down to a science after launching three new podcasts in the past year, and he’s been […]
2
Nov
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that for a limited-time, customers who add Audio Articles to their plan can try the feature for FREE for one month before deciding whether to keep the feature or disable it! Audio Articles is an innovative feature that converts each article published on your website into an audio file that visitors can play on their PC or mobile device, allowing them to listen to the news and free […]
28
Oct
At Our-Hometown, we take pride in being more than just a service provider. In addition to the innovative tools and features available exclusively on our WordPress Publishing Platform, our Publisher Newsletter and Virtual Conferences have helped to establish Our-Hometown as a legitimate resource for the entire publishing industry. Whether you’re a customer of ours or just a publisher looking for guidance in the modern age of digital publishing, we’re doing our […]
26
Oct
Our-Hometown is happy to announce that we’ve released a new update granting our customers more control over subscribers visiting their website — most notably the ability to limit subscribers to a certain number of active sessions, serving as a deterrent to prevent readers from sharing their account with friends or family. In the past, there was nothing stopping readers from buying a digital subscription and sharing their login with others, […]
22
Oct
Our-Hometown is excited to announce an upcoming customer-exclusive Live Webinar on Getting People to Pick Up Your Paper, hosted by special guest speaker Kevin Slimp! The webinar will take place via GoToMeeting on Thursday, November 12th at 2PM Eastern, and registration is free for all Our-Hometown customers! Kevin Slimp is a widely-recognized speaker, trainer and writer in the newspaper industry. He has been featured as a keynote speaker at many state […]
22
Oct
Our-Hometown is happy to extend this invitation to our upcoming Virtual Conference: 6 Innovations in Local Online News which will take place LIVE on December 1st at 1PM Eastern, where President & CEO Matt Larson will highlight some of the most innovative and cutting-edge features that our engineers have developed for our platform. Newspapers worldwide are searching for ways to adapt to the on-going shift to digital publishing, but Our-Hometown […]
20
Oct
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson hosted another session of Office Hours on Monday, this time going over the basics of the Newsletter Drag & Drop Layout Builder included with The Newsletter Plugin on our WordPress Platform. The Drag & Drop Composer provides you with several pre-built blocks that you can use to craft attractive and stylish newsletters for your readers just by dragging a block into your newsletter layout and dropping […]
19
Oct
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson hosted another live Virtual Conference this past Friday, this time focusing on incorporating video content into your digital product. Matt introduced the audience to a few different ways that Video Media Content can be used on a website, and demonstrated how you can produce a single piece of media content and re-use it for many different purposes and on many different platforms to get the […]
16
Oct
Facebook and Instagram are making changes to the way that content from the social networks is embedded into WordPress pages, posts and articles. Beginning on October 24th, you will need to Register a Facebook App in order to continue embedding Facebook & Instagram content directly into your posts and articles. This is because the social media giants are replacing their existing oEmbed functionality with new API Endpoints that require an […]
14
Oct
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matt Larson hosted another session of Office Hours this afternoon, where he showed off more of our Google Docs Add-On and demonstrated how it can be used in tandem with Reverse Publishing to improve efficiency in your existing workflow. 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 […]