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News - - Page 17
7
May
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson will be giving a live presentation on USING AUTOMATION TO INCREASE AUDIENCE REVENUE AND ENGAGEMENT later this morning at 10:15 AM CST as a part of the 2021 Illinois Press Association/Foundation Convention. The annual convention is being held virtually this year via the Zoom video conferencing platform, and members of the Illinois Press Association are invited to attend all of the day’s events for […]
5
May
Back in February, the state of Texas was hit with a rare winter storm that brought snow, bitter cold temperatures and slick, icy roads to residents unaccustomed to such conditions. Power grids across the state failed due to the high usage of heat and energy, ultimately leaving as many as 3.5 million Texans without heat or power for several days. Caught in the middle of all of this were the […]
5
May
Back in March, Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson gave a presentation that introduced and detailed our new Audio Articles Podcast product for attendees of a LIVE webinar hosted by Online Media Campus and The Iowa Newspaper Foundation. During the presentation, Matthew explains what a podcast is and what kind of benefits one can provide for a newspaper in terms of growing outreach and audience. He also offers a general […]
3
May
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson gave live a presentation on our brand new Audio Articles Podcast feature to members of the National Newspaper Association during a webinar hosted by the NNA last week. During the presentation, Matthew demonstrated how Audio Articles uses text-to-speech transcription software to automatically convert written articles into audio files that are read aloud by an automated narrator when readers visit the page. Audio Articles Podcasts […]
19
Apr
Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform uses The Newsletter Plugin to drive our intuitive newsletter creation and mailing list management system. A recent update has made the plugin more powerful than ever with a number of enhancements that directly effect the “Custom Post Type” block used to pull articles from your website into the drag & drop newsletter template. The Drag & Drop Composer has always offered a lot of promise for […]
12
Apr
Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform features a great Newsletter plugin for sending weekly newsletters, breaking news updates and other e-mails to customers who’ve joined your mailing list or subscribed to your publication. Thanks to some feedback from some of our customers, our engineers recently released a new update that allows any staff user with the Editor role on the website to change the sender name for your newsletter at any time. […]
12
Apr
The next in a series of webinars hosted by “The News Guru” Kevin Slimp and brought to our customers free of charge by Our-Hometown is scheduled for Thursday, May 6th at 2:00pm EST and will focus on Increasing Revenue by Designing More Effective Ads. “Kevin will cover the things you need to know to “up” your ad creation, meaning more effective ads and happier advertisers. This session is for both […]
8
Apr
A member of Our-Hometown’s neighborhood of publishers is seeking new owners as The Wallis News of Austin County, Texas has been listed for sale by owners Joanie and Johnny Griffin. Please view their sale ad below and reach out using the contact information provided if interested! NEWSPAPER FOR SALE Weekly newspaper for sale located in Wallis, Texas in Austin County. The Wallis News-Review was started in 1974 and continues coverage […]
5
Apr
If you’ve ever sat down and opened a newspaper — which many of today’s young news consumers have not — you’ve probably pulled out a collection of broadsheets, coupons, and other advertising material geared toward newspaper readers. Newspapers have traditionally acted as a vessel for local businesses and advertisers to deliver these inserts to readers by including them inside the pages of the daily or weekly newspaper. The sudden emphasis […]
29
Mar
Long-time Our-Hometown, Inc. customer and friend Guy Roginson, the Executive Editor at Talking Glass Media (TGM) and SignalsAz.com, was recently featured in an episode of Editor and Publisher‘s “E&P REPORTS” podcast where he joined host Mike Blinder to discuss the overall strategy and vision of TGM. You can find the full episode, titled “How Publishing Good News in Central Arizona Is Growing Audience and Revenue” on Editor & Publisher‘s website, […]
