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News - - Page 19
2
Mar
Our-Hometown, Inc. is thrilled to announce the sponsorship of a series of upcoming Newspaper Academy webinars taking place over the next six months, hosted by none other than “The News Guru” himself, Kevin Slimp! Under this partnership, all Our-Hometown customers will be eligible to attend each of these sponsored sessions FREE OF CHARGE! Kevin Slimp is well-known in the industry for his expertise in all things newspapers, including his advanced knowledge of […]
1
Mar
Last month, we published a blog post summarizing a Bloomberg.com article reporting on Australia’s efforts to pass legislation that would force companies like Google and Facebook to compensate news publishers for all of the content ultimately shared on their platform. Last week, our friend Cecile Wehrman, Publisher of the Crosby Journal and Tioga Tribune in North Dakota, added her thoughts to the conversation by publishing a commentary titled, “Australian case could […]
25
Feb
Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson recently participated in a live webinar on Turnkey Audio Automation hosted by Editor & Publisher to show off our newest cutting-edge feature, Audio Articles Podcast. Larson joined Mike Blinder, Publisher of E&P, along with two of our customers who helped pioneer the development and implementation of Audio Articles Podcast: Guy Roginson of SignalsAZ.com and Kristen Weaver of The Wilson County News. The four of […]
24
Feb
Last week, expert SEO consultant Michael Cottam joined Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson for our latest Virtual Conference on SEO for Newspaper Publishers! Michael gave an incredibly informative presentation, beginning with an introduction to Search Engine Optimization and how Google ranks search results. After tackling some of the common terminology and providing a general overview of what impacts SEO, he moved on to some platform-specific tips for improving SEO […]
22
Feb
By now, you’ve probably read about our awesome new product, Audio Articles Podcast, which automatically converts all of the text articles on your website into audio podcast episodes and distributes them across all of the major podcasting networks with some help from our friends at BuzzSprout. We think our Audio Articles Podcast tool is a great way to get your feet wet in the wide world of podcasting, but BuzzSprout offers some […]
17
Feb
Attention Our-Hometown customers! We recently launched an exciting new Add On for our existing Audio Articles product: Audio Articles Podcast! Audio Articles Podcast automatically converts your existing Audio Articles into individual Episodes and uploads them to a BuzzSprout account, where they are then distributed across all of the major podcasting networks: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and many more. Importantly, while Audio Articles only allows you to listen to the article currently opened […]
16
Feb
Here at Our-Hometown, we’ve made Automation one of our key areas of focus in 2021. We’ve already released two new features this year that aim to help publishers automate what are normally time-consuming processes: Audio Articles Podcast for automatically creating podcast episodes from article content on your website, and Social Media Autopost for sharing your content across various social media networks. Today, we’re formally adding a third feature to that […]
2
Feb
Our-Hometown recently expanded the capabilities of our Audio Articles product, adding an exciting new automated podcast feature — and we’re offering a FREE TRIAL for a limited time! Audio Articles Podcast uses the audio files that are generated for each audio article to create new podcast episodes and publish them across all of the major podcasting channels via BuzzSprout. Our platform communicates with BuzzSprout using their specialized API to deliver the audio files and […]
26
Jan
As we work to finalize some details on our upcoming slate of Virtual Conferences and Webinars, we felt it would be a good opportunity to offer a quick refresher on using the MemberPress software to manage memberships and subscriptions on our platform. More specifically, we’re going to focus on Transactions — the driving force behind managing memberships and granting members access to premium content! Transactions are created any time a customer makes a […]
24
Jan
In Australia, a legal battle is being waged as Australian legislators seek to pass a law that would force Google to compensate publishers for the value their content generates for the search engine. More specifically, they’re targeting the excerpts of articles that are displayed in Google’s search results. Google responded this week by threatening to disable the search engine, which is responsible for at least 94% of all internet searches […]
