http://www.firstdaystory.com News from First Day Story en-us Copyright Rhinestone Solutions, Inc. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:19:19 EST http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:19:19 EST Button ads IAB standard size of 120px wide x 60px tall 3 button ads run at the top of the obituary pages.  These ads are not dedicated to the obituary page, however, and run on all pages. Leaderboard ad IAB standard size of 728px wide x 90 px http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:18:01 EST Button ads IAB standard size of 120px wide x 60px tall 3 button ads, which are run-of-site, run at the top of the story pages Leaderboard ad IAB standard size of 728px wide x 90 px tall One leaderboard ad runs on the story pages.  This ad is dedicated to story pages and will http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:14:05 EST Button ads IAB standard size of 120px wide x 60px tall 3 button ads, which are run-of-site, run at the top of the homepage. Leaderboard ad IAB standard size of 728px wide x 90 px tall Two leaderboard ads run on the homepage.  These ads are dedicated to the homepage and will not run on http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Wed, 11 May 2011 17:38:45 EST A recent Pew study indicates that while search engines still lead the way in driving traffic to online editions, social networks aren't far behind.  Socially networked First Day Story publishers have conveyed similar findings. First Day Story online editions help close the loop between social networking exposure and that of your online edition. Like (for Facebook) and Tweet (for Twitter) http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:16:41 EST Congratulations to First Day Story publisher The Mountain Enterprise in Frasier Park, CA.  The Enterprise won two first place awards at the annual convention of the The California Newspaper Publishers Association. Best Website, and Best Online News Coverage The Mountain Enterprise has been independent and locally owned for 45 years. Hometown Publishing owns the newspaper. First Day Story, Inc. provides content management solutions to http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:24:58 EST Rhinestone Solutions, Inc. has completed its name change to First Day Story, Inc.  All other aspects of the Illinois corporation remain unaffected. "First Day Story has always been our flagship product and we're happy to now present ourselves as such," said Larry Graf, President.  "As we continue our initiatives to increase our brand awareness, we feel it makes sense to consolidate http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:23:31 EST First Day Story now enables publishers to deliver news on Amazon's Kindle platform. This includes distribution to the market-leading Kindle e-book reader device. First Day Story's Kindle service utilizes the copy and images directly from a print edition with the goal of complete and matching content. Publishing each edition to Kindle involves no additional work for newspaper staff. "Because First Day Story http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:55:05 EST Social networking allows users to discuss and share with their chosen audience. User comments allow users to discuss and share regarding a chosen topic. We've heard about both at every convention for years now. Neither of these is brand new. The fact that they are merging is. With the infrastructure in place, users can post comments under your stories, using either their Facebook http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:57:53 EST When developing online editions or consulting for community papers, we often gain insight and create a unified strategy by correlating the roles and relationships of online opportunities with those that have worked best for a paper traditionally. We call it looking forward - by looking around. As an example, let's look at the question of "how valuable are social networks?". Here http://new.firstdaystory.com/report.php Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:31:19 EST As part of National Newspaper Week, the President and CEO of the Florida Press Association has released the following column. The way that people consume information is changing rapidly, and I hear frequently that the death of newspapers is imminent. I think that people feel this way because they aren’t regular newspaper readers or they just don’t think that other people