Our-Hometown would like to congratulate Cecile Wehrman, President of Journal Publishing, and the rest of her team on taking home the Best Website Award in the Large Weekly Newspaper division of this year's North Dakota Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest! Cecile's website, JournalTrib.com, is home to both the Crosby Journal and Tioga Tribune newspapers and provides local and regional news coverage to members of both communities on a weekly basis. This is the second year in a row that they have won the award. Cecile has worked closely with us to enhance the website by providing critical services to readers,...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson gave a live presentation on USING AUTOMATION TO INCREASE AUDIENCE REVENUE AND ENGAGEMENT last week as a part of the 2021 Illinois Press Association/Foundation Convention. The annual convention was held virtually this year via the Zoom video conferencing platform, and members of the Illinois Press Association were able to attend all of the day’s events for free. We're happy to share Matthew's session below for Our-Hometown customers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVTmqfxwNYE

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

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, June 17th at 2:00pm EST and will focus on the basics of using the Adobe InDesign software to design better pages and ads. “So many newspaper designers learned software basics on their own, missing many of the tools available to increase revenue and design better pages and ads. Kevin Slimp was working in InDesign before it even had a name, and he taught a large group of newspaper designers to use the...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

At Our-Hometown, we're always working to improve our selection of products and services to make sure we have the tools that meet our customers' needs, no matter how minor a request may seem. Our engineers have proven this once again with the release of a relatively small, but impactful, feature: the option to Display an Article's Category on Article Pages. Traditionally, Articles published on our platform include the headline, sub-headline, author and byline information, and a publish date before the actual content of the article. However, the Article's category was omitted from the page. After listening to some feedback from...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson gave a live presentation on USING AUTOMATION TO INCREASE AUDIENCE REVENUE AND ENGAGEMENT at 10:15 AM CST on May 7, 2021 as part of the 2021 Illinois Press Association/Foundation Convention.

With resources stretched thinner than ever, it’s never been more important for newsrooms to focus on automation, wherever possible. In this session, Matt describes some of the turnkey ways publishers are automating marketing and content creation on Our Hometown’s WordPress Platform. He also discusses auto-renewing subscriptions, newsletter marketing, auto-publishing to social media, computer generated audio content, and how to automatically turn your newspaper into a podcast. For more info on audio articles and automated podcasting, and to sign up for a free trial visit https://our-hometown.com/audio-articles-podcast/.

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 free by registering here. A description of Matthew's presentation as provided by the IPA's website is below: "With resources stretched thinner than ever, it’s never been more important for newsrooms...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

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 overview from both a publisher and advertiser point of view to demonstrate how the tool can be helpful to both. Matthew was able to provide numbers and statistics from two...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

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 local and regional newspapers forced to abruptly halt production due to blackouts, lack of resources, and the inability to travel due to the dangerous conditions. Even those newspapers who were...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

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 them discussed the innovative approach to launching a podcast, and detailed how the feature has already helped bring in some extra revenue. Click here to read the writeup on the...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]

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 desktop computers, with only 8% coming from mobile devices & smartphones, and another 12% coming from tablets or other in-between devices. Fast-forward to today. Last year, in 2020, our websites...

Article Link

Let us know your thoughts about this episode by reaching out on Social Media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourhometowninc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourhometownwebpublishing/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourhometowninc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/our-hometown-com/

..........

Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

OHT's Web Publishing Platform is:
-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

https://our-hometown.com

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKw6KpKUiQkWldrX2-J1Kag?view_as=subscriber

Our-Hometown can be reached via email for comments or questions at: [email protected]