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 takes this a step further by taking those automated audio files and sending them to a customer's BuzzSprout account, where they are published and distributed as episodes of their podcast....

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Automated Podcasting with Audio Articles

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Matthew Larson, President & CEO
Our-Hometown, Inc.
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00:00Introduction
04:49Why get into podcasting?
09:06Automating Production with Audio Articles Tech
14:17Case Studies
18:06Podcast service for any CMS
19:26The Future of Audio Articles
22:06Upcoming Events and Q&A

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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 publishers looking to craft their own personalized newsletters, especially once the Custom Post Type (CPT) block was introduced. The CPT block allows you to display recent articles from specific categories...

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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.

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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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. Previously, changing the Sender Name for your newsletter required creating a support ticket and waiting for our staff to address your request. This was because the Settings page for the...

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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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 ad reps and designers and there’s plenty of information to keep everyone writing notes nonstop." - NewspaperAcademy.com This session alone is valued at and is part of a much...

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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:
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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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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 of one school district, city and county government and local news. The city is small, but development is coming to the area from the east because of its close proximity...

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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 on "digitization" thanks in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many publishers to wonder whether there is a place for these inserts online. The answer is Yes, and...

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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, or by viewing the video embedded below, courtesy of E&P's YouTube page! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ghYeSgXUtE We're always happy to shine the spotlight on our customers' efforts and contributions to the publishing industry,...

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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.

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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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 Friday, April 9th at 11am EST and will focus on Winning Ideas & Tools to Make Designing Your Grad Section Easier. InDesign and Photoshop have several tools which can make the time it takes to create a graduation section decrease significantly. Using tools like data merge, tables, scripts, and metadata, the creation time can decrease by half or more! Kevin will also discuss his favorite ideas from newspapers throughout North America about their...

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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.

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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