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Highlight upcoming Events in your newsletter with our new Custom Events block

Highlight upcoming Events in your newsletter with our new Custom Events block

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 […]

Security Features

Security Features

At Our-Hometown, the security of our customers’ websites and data is one of our top priorities. The following are tips and features designed to keep your website secure.

Manual Push Notifications now available on OHT Apps

Manual Push Notifications now available on OHT Apps

Our-Hometown has recently released a small but powerful update that allows publishers to manually send out Push Notifications to their iOS or Android App users from the website at any time. While the general Push Notifications feature has existed for some time, it was previously configured to send out a Push Notification only when an article is published, and only when it belongs to a particular category. This new, manual […]

The Virginia Press Association’s “Digital Initiative” with Our-Hometown

The Virginia Press Association’s “Digital Initiative” with Our-Hometown

Last year, Our-Hometown partnered up with the Virginia Press Association to launch our first Digital Initiative — a program aimed at getting all newspapers under the Virginia Press Association’s umbrella on the web with a turnkey digital revenue model. Many local newspapers, especially those covering smaller towns and communities, are still relying entirely on a printed newspaper funded by local advertisers, having neglected to take the next step of launching […]

An optimized mobile experience at Our-Hometown

An optimized mobile experience at Our-Hometown

If you work in the newspaper industry, you’re probably already aware that most web traffic is now coming from mobile devices. The switch to mobile has been an internet-wide trend throughout the 2010s. However, our latest statistics show just how dramatic this shift has been over even the past couple of years. According to our platform-wide statistics, in 2018, our websites saw nearly 80% of online traffic coming from traditional […]

Kevin Slimp: Mastering Adobe InDesign Styles

Kevin Slimp: Mastering Adobe InDesign Styles

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, September 9th at 12:00pm EST and will focus on Mastering Adobe InDesign Styles! “Some of the most powerful tools in InDesign are the styles. Most users are only familiar with one or two of them. Some don’t know anything about them. Not to worry. In […]

Our-Hometown to present on Email Newsletter Basics

Our-Hometown to present on Email Newsletter Basics

Our-Hometown, Inc. president & CEO Matthew Larson has been invited to give a live webinar presentation in conjunction with America’s Newspapers, this time on the topic of Email Newsletter Basics, on July 15th beginning at 2PM Eastern. The America’s Newspapers website describes the event as follows: Email newsletters are a key component of any business’ marketing toolkit. Unlike social media marketing, which uses top-secret algorithms to distribute content, the email […]

Automated Podcasting with the Colorado & Kansas Press Associations

Automated Podcasting with the Colorado & Kansas Press Associations

Back in May, Our-Hometown president & CEO Matthew Larson had the privilege of joining Amber Jackson to present on Automated Podcasting with Audio Articles for members of both the Colorado Press Association and Kansas Press Association during a live webinar event. During the presentation, Matthew demonstrates how our Audio Articles Podcast feature automatically generates an audio version of any text article on your website and uses it to create a […]

OHT presents on Newsletter Marketing for the Kansas Press Association

OHT presents on Newsletter Marketing for the Kansas Press Association

Our-Hometown, Inc.’s president & CEO Matthew Larson was invited to give a live virtual presentation on Newsletter Marketing for members of the Kansas Press Association earlier this month. During the presentation, Matthew describes some of the powerful newsletter marketing techniques made possible by our platform, including several cutting-edge tools developed by our own engineers! Watch the full replay below and let Matthew walk you through the basics of Newsletter Marketing, […]

OHT & NNA: Using Automation to Increase Audience Revenue and Engagement

OHT & NNA: Using Automation to Increase Audience Revenue and Engagement

Our-Hometown, Inc. president & CEO Matthew Larson recently gave a live presentation on Using Automation to Increase Audience Revenue and Engagement for members of the National Newspaper Association who attended the special Allied Webinar earlier this month. During the session, Matthew demonstrated some of the ways our customers are automating both content creation and marketing using Our-Hometown’s collection of cutting-edge tools and plugins. Check out the replay below to learn […]

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