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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 […]
30
Nov
Throughout the Co-VID-19 pandemic, we’ve learned that people look more to their local news for updates on the virus, local closings, delivery services, and the like. People trust local news. An increased concern for personal health placed people at home rather than at the usual gyms and offices; people spent less time in their vehicles or on mass transit. And, even without the pandemic twist, people need variety. Let’s face […]
3
Nov
Don’t tell anyone, but I must be older than I look. I started offering online training long before most people knew such a thing existed. 20 years ago, I worked with a production company in Indianapolis that hosted and produced my monthly webinars for newspapers. It was quite the production. My favorite part of each webinar was when the announcer would introduce me by saying, “And now, coming to you […]
25
Oct
Our-Hometown, Inc. is excited to introduce our new Custom Events Block for The Newsletter Plugin, which equips your newsletter with the ability to include Events published to your website’s event calendar directly in your daily or weekly newsletter. This new Custom Events Block works just like most of the other blocks in the newsletter editor. When editing a newsletter using the Drag & Drop Composer, simply find the Custom Events […]
27
Sep
At Our-Hometown, the security of our customers’ websites and data is one of our top priorities. While there are no new specific security threats to warn you about, we thought it would be a good idea to pass along some general tips for internet security in the COVID-age. 1. Use Two-Factor Authentication Two-Factor Authentication is probably the single most powerful tool you have to protect against criminals trying to access […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
7
Sep
Google recently announced that they are changing the way they share content through the Google News program, and it could have big impact on the traffic your website is seeing. Traditionally, Google News has used RSS feeds to collect news content from news publishers and render it directly within the Google News application or on Google’s website. While this resulted in more eyes on the shared content and perhaps some […]
