Hear me—and my parents—on 102.3 The Max’s Lambert and Lindsey show

For the past year I’ve been a regular guest Friday mornings on 102.3 FM The Max’s Lambert & Lindsey radio show, highlighting weekend events and promoting Louisville.com’s Weekender. Normally I just post the audio on Soundcloud and promote it via social media. But today, today was a special episode: my parents are visiting from Boston and joined me in the studio.

Thanks as always to Lynda Lambert, George Lindsey and Jesse Rasmussen for inviting me on their show. You can hear me join them Friday mornings around 7:40 a.m. at 102.3 FM, themaxfm.com or via their iOS app.

Louisville.com tops 1.5 million visits in 2012

Compared to 2009—the year before I assumed my part-time gig as the site’s editor-in-chief—visits to Louisville.com increased 131 percent in 2012 (665,561 to 1,539,414). And it was a 29 percent increase over 2011. Thanks to all our readers and contributors!

Louisville.com, Louisville Magazine are hiring ad execs, staff writer

Louisville Magazine and Louisville.com are looking for ad executives:

Louisville Magazine and its sister company Louisville.com are looking for accomplished account executives for new business development. If you are self motivated and have proven sales and communication skills, give us a shout! Print and online experience helpful. Position is commission based. Please submit cover letter and resume to sales@loumag.com.

Also, Louisville Magazine is hiring a full-time staff writer. That’s right, a full-time editorial position:

Wanted: a staff writer. Qualifications: Talent and a great attitude. Duties: Write. Louisville Magazine is looking for somebody who’ll turn into a master at longform journalism, who thinks up story ideas 24/7 (never underestimate the story idea formed in deep sleep), who has a sense of humor, who is as adept at doing the quirky front-of-the-book pieces as the deeply reported profiles and issue stories that shine in the feature well. Must appreciate good editing and play well with others. It wouldn’t hurt if you’d like to have some fun, too — especially since working at a magazine is only the best job in the world. Oh, and did we mention talent and attitude? We’re big on the best of both. Salary will be commensurate with skill and experience. To respond, please send résumé and clips to Kane Webb at kwebb@loumag.com or at 137 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Suite 101, Louisville, Ky., 40202-1438.

And, as always, Louisville.com is looking for writers. And interns.

Photo: Courtesy Louisville.com

Louisville.com picks up 6,000th Twitter follower, 5,000th Facebook fan

Like Lance Armstrong speeding through the Tour de France finish line, in the last two weeks Louisville.com shattered the 6,000 Twitter followers and 5,000 Facebook fans milestones (wait, is that Armstrong metaphor no longer a good one to use?). When I began my gig as part-time editor-in-chief of the site in January 2010, those numbers were 1,800 and 100 respectively.

Unlike a lot of outlets, Louisville.com’s social media presence isn’t just about branding or vanity (as in, “Hey potential advertisers, look at how many people like us!”). All of Louisville.com’s articles automatically post to both of those social networks within 15 minutes of appearing on the mother site. In the last 30 days, Facebook was the site’s fifth highest source of traffic (it was third before Facebook cut back on the reach of fan pages that don’t advertise with it) and Twitter is eighth.

Congrats to our writers for putting out content that so many Louisvillians find valuable. And thanks to our readers for being followers and fans!

Louisville.com’s looking for writers, interns

I’m looking to bring on more writers and interns at Louisville.com.

Interested? Details are at the aptly titled

• writers wanted
• interns wanted

Any questions, please email me at zach@louisville.com. Thanks!