Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!


Listeners of the World,

Once again it is that time of year where Thanksgiving is upon us and Christmas is right around the corner! A time of year where many spend time with their friends and loved ones to remember why they are thankful. A time of year where gifts are given and people overeat!!! Where you work less and play more! The time of year you get to see your whole family and friends from far off places. A very good time of the year!

With all of that in mind the OurTown Home Office would like to give thanks for all of our wonderful and hard working local editors, local and national advertisers, and of course to all of our viewers. Without all of you OurTown would be nothing! We want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and hope they enjoy it to the fullest.

We would also like to remind everyone that with all of your friends and family in town that it is the perfect time to capture memories and share them with everyone! So please feel free to post pictures, videos, and stories about your great holiday events and experiences.

So once again from all of us at the Home Office we wish you a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!!!!!

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris

Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Day After......


Listeners of the World,

OurTown is back up and has been back up since late afternoon yesterday. We went through a process of setting up new servers that are more powerful than our old ones to help fix a lot of issues we have been having. We did get most of the process finished and are looking very good! We will be taking them back down to finish everything up next week. For now OurTown is operational and you should continue to upload content, comment, and view all pages normally. If anyone finds any errors or has any issues please send them to Support@OurTown.com immediately so that we can take care of them.

I will update you once again when we are taking them back down, and keep you updated on our server situation!

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Server Maintenance Today!

Listeners of the World,

OurTown.com has been experiencing a lot of down time lately due to various server and hosting reasons. We have been hard at work on fixing this problem and have decided that we need to transfer OurTown.com to completely new servers, but by doing this OurTown will be down for 4-5 hours! We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your understanding and patience. We will keep you updated today on our progress!!!!

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris

Friday, November 12, 2010

Quick Update


Listeners of the World,

We have many things in the mix right now and are gearing up for the new year that is coming! We are right now working with a few sites to add new widgets and feeds to OurTown which will help all of our local editors broaden their content! We are also working on expanding our local editor count and to start new introduction programs.

We are still working on the new site which we are hoping will be completed now by early next year. I know that this has been delayed and we apologize for this, but we promise that it is worth the wait! Most the new features we are installing on the current site will transfer over to the new site.

We are also looking into installing OurTown leaders and coaches to help with new and old local editors who may be having trouble in certain areas (content, layout, ad sales, etc). We hope that these new additions will help in local editor training and expansion.

Next update will be a lot sooner!

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris