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Mar
The following is a guest column contributed by Mr. Kevin Slimp, aka the “News Guru” and host of the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series. It’s late as I write this column, just around midnight. There’s nothing unusual about that. I tend to write my columns, stories, and books late in the evening. Apparently, that’s not the norm for most famous writers in history. Maybe I should take a clue from them. […]
23
Feb
Our-Hometown, Inc. is happy to announce that our partnership with Mr. Kevin Slimp has been extended once again, guaranteeing all Our-Hometown customers FREE entry to his upcoming webinars! Kevin Slimp is a stalwart in the industry, spending much of his time educating news publishers on best practices across a wide array of different tools and software and helping them to improve their publications in whatever ways possible. Slimp holds a […]
23
Feb
The Clarke County Democrat recently became one of our first customers to incorporate full Audio Articles functionality within their iOS & Android applications! Audio Articles is an exciting feature available to Our-Hometown customers that automatically converts your published articles into audio files that are played back to the reader, freeing up their hands for multi-tasking while consuming the news. Each Audio Article is automatically assigned to a Playlist of articles […]
16
Feb
Our-Hometown’s support team is often asked how to track statistics for an advertisement or banner that is included inside of a newsletter, or if it is even possible to do so. It is important to be able to provide stats for these newsletter banners and advertisements so that you can provide reports to advertisers and potential advertisers inquiring about an open ad slot. We’re happy to report that it is […]
31
Jan
Redesigns. They’ve been on my mind a lot lately. When Ed Henninger, the undisputed guru of newspaper and magazine design, decided to retire three years ago (I never really thought he was serious), we had several conversations about his decision. I’ll never forget when he told me he was “done.” “I’m closing down my website. I’m getting rid of my Adobe software subscription. I’m going to give my large page […]
21
Jan
Join The Webinar UPDATE: Lee Wolverton, the Vice President of News and Executive editor at HD Media Co., LLC — the plaintiff in the lawsuit — will be joining the webinar as a special guest panelist! Our-Hometown is excited to announce that we’ll be hosting a LIVE interview & AMA (Ask Me Anything) event with Paul T. Farrell Jr. of Farrell & Fuller, LLC and Bob Fitzsimmons of Fitzsimmons Law […]
18
Jan
MemberPress is the plug-in that powers digital subscriptions on the vast majority of Our-Hometown customers’ websites. It allows publishers to restrict their premium content to paid subscribers, while also providing all of the tools needed to create and manage various subscription options and collect payment from their customers.
10
Jan
Audio Articles: Playlists is the latest expansion to our innovative Audio Articles feature, taking listening to the news to the next level by introducing curated playlists for readers to easily tune in to the content that they love the most. If you didn’t already know, Audio Articles is an exciting tool developed by Our-Hometown that uses text-to-speech automation to transform your published text articles into audio files that a visitor […]
3
Jan
Over the past several years, Our-Hometown has evolved into much more than just a website provider for newspapers. In addition to all of the tools and features we’ve developed specifically for news publishers, we’re able to provide our customers with additional resources such as LIVE Webinars & Virtual Conferences, free training sessions, and direct connections with industry experts such as The News Guru, Kevin Slimp. You can expect more of […]
27
Dec
One of the exciting new features we introduced in 2021 is our Social Media Autopost tool, which instantly connects your website with your publication’s various social media profiles and allows you to quickly and easily share your content with followers on all of your favorite networks. The tool serve several purposes. The primary objective is to increase traffic to the website by sharing content often and directing readers back to […]
