Louisville’s a place where just about anyone with enthusiasm, talent, gumption, brains, or just a good old-fashioned work ethic can make a go of it.
From “Fortune 500” presidents and PTA board chairs to business people and industry leaders, from neighborhood advocates and trade unionists to girl scouts and boy wonders, Possibility City is a haven for people who are going places and who enjoy making life better for everyone else on the way.
Louisville not only welcomes folks who make things happen, it actively promotes the process. Case in point, the new Leadership Louisville Connector Project.
Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana are committed to growing into the finest region possible. As a Friend of Lou, you’re being asked to help contribute to a team of people you know personally who embody the spirit of can-do-it-ive-ness this city’s built on.
Think as broadly as you can about the people you know from the region. Consider people from different walks of life and with a wide range of skills, abilities, and contacts. Think beyond traditional definitions of leadership to nominate individuals who have a strong interest in working for the common good and possess the knowledge, respect, and network to effect positive change.
Then click here to add them to a list that’s already 3,600 possibilitatin’ people strong.
The deadline’s this weekend — so don’t procrastinate. Nominate.
It’s no secret we’re all about the Quality of Life in Possibility City, but there are enough Left-Brainers among us who demand to know about the Quantity of Life. “Prove we are a one-of-a-kind-don’t-take-no-for-an-answer-sort-of city that gets things done with a smile,” they cry. “And then turn it into a list so we can share it with anyone who doubts how cool we are.”
So we did. And here it is:
The Top Ten Reasons Louisville’s a Top-Tier Town
1 — 21c Museum Hotel has been selected as the Number One Hotel in the United States, and Number Six hotel in the world, in the prestigious Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards for 2009.
2 — Louisville has been voted all the way to Number Two as a “Top-25 City” according to a Kiplinger.com poll. (There’s still time to fix that, though: vote now to get us back to Number One.)
3 — One of the top-three winners for “Most Improved Cities for Cycling” by Bicycling Magazine. These things go in cycles, so who knows where we’ll end up a year from now?
4 — Fourth-most “Photo-Friendly City” in the country. Got a photo of Possibility City of your own? Add it by clicking here.
5 — One of the five finalists for “America’s Foodiest” by Bon Appetit magazine. Yes, we know it’s not a real word, but we wanted to include funner stuff.
6 — AmericanStyle Magazine recently selected the St. James Court Art Show as the sixth-best art fair in the country. Not sure we’d agree, but fair’s fair.
7 — Ranked seventh in the “Best Towns of 2008” by Outside Magazine — which is a bit confusing: are we an outside contender or not?
8 — Number of miles from Willie Nelson’s heart to downtown Louisville.
9 — Heck, nobody wants to be ninth in anything, so how about this instead: Last year we finished first for having the “Best-Tasting Water in America.”
10 — And rounding out the list, West Main Street was ranked the tenth-best Main Street in the nation.
Get All Web-Two-O-y and Support Louisville
One of the best ways to visit a city before, you know, you actually visit a city, is to check it out online and see what others say. Trip Advisor is a highly respected tool in this regard, so if you want to help provide valuable content and influence others’ decisions about this city of Possibility, look no further. Simply click here.
You saw them first, Friend of Lou. The television spots that rocked the nation have now gone viral. We’ve always said that to get noticed, you need to shake things up. Looks like it’s working. From Rachel Maddow on MSNBC News to AP News Wire to AOL Travel to FOX, people across the planet (and we’re talking well over 200,000 hits in a week!!) have been watching the Possibility City TV commercials and talking with infectious enthusiasm about Louisville.
The most recent commercials highlight the self-enhancing side effects of ongoing exposure to Louisville. A great quality of life. An incredible park system. The waterfront. All things that can help cure anyone who’s yet to experience how rich a life in Possibility City can be.
You can watch Bill O’Reilly give the ad campaign a “(witty) Pinhead” rating as he too smiles at Louisville’s infectiously positive spin on life. Just click here.
Doctor’s orders
If you know someone who’s in need of a dose of Possibility, take this advice by sending this post to someone you care about. (http://www.friendoflou.com/promo/the-oh-really-factor/)
Take two ads in and call me in the morning
If you’d like to watch both the spots, well, you know what to do next:
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