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Website Security Refresher

Website Security Refresher

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 […]

VPA Digital Initiative helps launch Virginia Star’s new website

VPA Digital Initiative helps launch Virginia Star’s new website

With support from the Virginia Press Association Digital Initiative, the Scott County Virginia Star has launched a new modern website powered by Our-Hometown’s fully customized WordPress platform. In 1993, Rex and Lisa McCarty purchased the newspaper and reaffirmed the focus of the newspaper as a community-based publication. They have been proud residents of Scott County since that time and consider themselves fortunate to be a part of the community. To […]

Industry Interview with Guy Roginson of SignalsAZ.com on adapting to mobile

Industry Interview with Guy Roginson of SignalsAZ.com on adapting to mobile

Last month, Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson and Sales Representative Tyler Woods had the opportunity to sit down with our good friend Guy Roginson, Excecutive Editor of SignalsAZ.com, to discuss the growing audience of mobile users and how websites should adapt to give these users the best experience possible. Together the trio discusses the importance of designing websites with the mobile experience in mind, the benefits of creating iOS […]

Art Cullen of Storm Lake Times interviewed by NPR

Art Cullen of Storm Lake Times interviewed by NPR

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 […]

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.

Kevin Slimp Webinar Series continues!

Kevin Slimp Webinar Series continues!

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 […]

Industry Interview: Pason Gaddis of Florida Weekly

Industry Interview: Pason Gaddis of Florida Weekly

Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson was recently joined by Pason Gaddis and Jim Dickerson, two-thirds of the leadership team at Florida Media Group, LLC — the publishers behind one of Florida’s largest weekly news magazines, Florida Weekly. In Part 1 of the Interview, the trio discusses an exciting new project Florida Weekly is working on that involves using touchless mobile displays to feature their own news content in various […]

East Aurora Advertiser podcast episode exemplifies use of audio

East Aurora Advertiser podcast episode exemplifies use of audio

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 […]

News Brief: Google News update could mean more traffic for newspapers

News Brief: Google News update could mean more traffic for newspapers

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 […]

Feature Survey: Prepaid Article Paywall Model

Feature Survey: Prepaid Article Paywall Model

At Our-Hometown, Inc., we’re committed to developing new and unique features that help drive digital newspaper subscriptions and generate extra revenue for the publishers using our platform. Part of that process includes soliciting feedback and suggestions from our customers. Grant Hamilton of Neighbor-to-Neighbor News, Inc. recently pitched the idea of a PrePaid Article Paywall Model, and we’re very interested in hearing what other publishers think. Put simply, this model would […]

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