An Application Service Provider, Our-Hometown.com, helps community newspapers solve the staffing, budget and time constraints they often experience when attempting to go online. Our-Hometown.com helps community newspapers transition to the Internet by providing its clients with online publishing services as well as their own domain name for minimal cost or effort. No additional software or hardware purchases are necessary, no software developers will need to be hired, and newspaper staff will not need to undergo additional technical training.
"Most Application Service Providers that focus on newspapers are too expensive and require almost as much work as doing it yourself. We saw a need for a new approach which would give community newspapers the opportunity to develop a web presence without diverting a lot of time, money and effort away from their basic operations," says Stephen Larson, president of Our-Hometown.com.
Community newspapers simply send Our-Hometown.com their Quark, Adobe Pagemaker, MS Word or other print files via e-mail. Our-Hometown.com then converts the newspapers’ news and other content and place it into their professional web template for a fraction of what other providers charge. Customers are given a choice of navigation, photo caption options and other features so they can develop a unique digital edition brand.
"I have the flexibility to manage the site the way I want to without investing in people, training hours and money," says Sandy Bernstein, general manager of The Wave of Long Island (www.rockawave.com). "I wouldn’t even have attempted going online had it not been for Our-Hometown.com."
Our-Hometown.com has five years of experience working solely with community newspapers and maintains web identities for more than 37 newspapers with varying profiles and circulation figures.
Our-Hometown.com also offers special features such as polls, classified and subscription forms, mapping, screen savers of local scenes, and e-mail postcards, among others, for a minimal additional fee. For more information, contact us.
