Posted June 11, 201114 yr Hello! The National Trust for Historic Preservation's "This Place Matters" Community Challenge is taking place this month. OTR is up against 99 other historic landmarks in America! 1st = $25,000 2nd = $10,000 3rd = $5,000 VOTE ONCE PER EMAIL Enter your email, zip code and a password here: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14740 Then, leave "remember me" checked and click "submit". Finally, go to the Over-the-Rhine Foundation page and vote for it! Vote for OTR here: http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html Track results here: http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/voting-results.html OTR started at 84th place and is currently 26th. Keep voting and sharing. One vote per email! Voting ends June 30 at 4:59pm. Thank you!
June 11, 201114 yr Voted - Now in 13th "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 13, 201114 yr Let's win this thing! VOTE HERE: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14740
June 14, 201114 yr It's got my 2 votes(home/work). It would be ironic if the $$ will be used to save 1314 Vine St.
June 14, 201114 yr OTR's in 1st!!! http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
June 15, 201113 yr Please keep voting and sharing! Thank you so much! The OTR Foundation will put this money to good use saving historic structures in Over-the-Rhine! http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html Main Street Over-the-Rhine Cincinnati by OverTheRhine, on Flickr Over-the-Rhine by OverTheRhine, on Flickr
June 16, 201113 yr Enterprise Hometown Improvement has gained some serious ground. OTR now leads by a mere 22 votes (2126-2104) after being up by 116 last night. Spread the word! "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 18, 201113 yr Enterprise Hometown Improvement has gained some serious ground. OTR now leads by a mere 22 votes (2126-2104) after being up by 116 last night. Spread the word! OTR is 50 votes from 1st place. SPREAD THE WORD AND VOTE! http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
June 18, 201113 yr 4 votes from 1st! PLEASE VOTE! http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
June 19, 201113 yr OTR, how do you get the number of votes, am I missing something? I work at the Trust and I cant figure it out!
June 19, 201113 yr When you vote, it tells you how many votes the organization has received. Using the cancel vote option allows you to scan the front runners to determine the actual vote count. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 19, 201113 yr OTR, how do you get the number of votes, am I missing something? I work at the Trust and I cant figure it out! As Cygnus explained, I cancel my vote for OTR then vote for a competitor then cancel and put my vote back in for OTR.
June 20, 201113 yr OTR, how do you get the number of votes, am I missing something? I work at the Trust and I cant figure it out! Something's fishy. The Wellington Ritz Theatre gained over 200 votes between the hours of 10pm and 430am last night. And they gained less than 5 facebook likes. Does that seem weird to anyone else but me? OTR is far and away the winner when it comes to facebook likes and a close second (had it not been for the mysterious 200 votes last night).
June 20, 201113 yr It's a goofy voting system... I could put anyone's email address in and vote. It creates an account and emails you a password but you aren't required to verify the account. Most people would probably mark it as spam. Few will go to the site to find out what it's all about. I doubt anyone will change the vote made for them. Not sure what happens if you were to use an invalid email address. You'd vote but not sure what the organization does when they receive a email failure notice. And then you could always just create a disposable addresses with Google or Yahoo. You'd seemingly be able to vote an infinite amount of times. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 21, 201113 yr Ouch, OTR dropped to third. I'm going to see if I can get my KY co-workers to jump on board.
June 21, 201113 yr Anyone know Matthew Lafkas or anyone else on the OTR 5K Leadership Team? I'd think they could use their distribution list to email those who ran/participated in the OTR 5K... "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 22, 201113 yr OTR's in 2nd and closing the gap! Spread the word! http://bit.ly/voteotr 8 days left!
June 22, 201113 yr Cincinnati is coming together for this thing! VOTE and share! http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
June 23, 201113 yr CRAP! OTR is in 3rd! VOTE here: http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
June 26, 201113 yr This is unreal. OTR is in an epic battle with The Breakers from Newport, RI. What a perfect matchup...let's win this for urban Ohio! Vote here: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14740
June 26, 201113 yr The Breakers was built by a Cincinnatian too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Claypoole_Gwynne OTR is down by 175. Vote! http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14740
June 26, 201113 yr If we can get the Cleveland folks to switch their vote on the final day, we should be able to do this. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 27, 201113 yr If we can get the Cleveland folks to switch their vote on the final day, we should be able to do this. Check out the Voting Results: http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/voting-results.html Now is the time for UrbanOhio to coalesce behind OTR! Vote: http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/over-the-rhine.html
June 27, 201113 yr Dang, The Preservation Society of Newport County came out of nowhere. Yeah, but they are well known. Newport and The Breakers is always on Travel Channel haha. ############## Claim your free email address @iheartotr.com now! http://wp.me/p1ixG6-ty
June 28, 201113 yr Claim your free email address(es) @iheartotr.com now! http://wp.me/p1ixG6-ty Claim as many as you want!
June 28, 201113 yr lol, thanks for the email addresses - I've been using the disposable email option in gmail. Current tally: OTR - 13,342 Newport County - 13,039 Dreamland Ballroom - 12,272 Everyone else is under 10,000 votes... Cleveland Bridge Project has fallen to 9th with 3,086 votes. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 29, 201113 yr 1. OTR Foundation - 14114 votes - 2251 likes 2. Dreamland Theatre - 13781 - 166 likes 3. The Breakers, Newport - 13585 - 487 likes ... VOTE: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14740
June 29, 201113 yr I saw there was a voting station on Fountain Square today! Great idea...go OTR! Yes and there will be one at Neon's, Arnold's, Japp's tonight/tomorrow and there was one at Coffee Emporium this morning and Neon's yesterday. Please, please, please tell your friends. Or ask if you can vote with their emails for them...this would be a great award for OTR to win.
June 29, 201113 yr We're on Cincinnati.com again: OTR Foundation vying for votes The Over-the-Rhine Foundation is neck-in-neck for a first place finish in the 2011 This Place Matters Community Challenge, an online competition hosted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The non-profit is vying to win $25,000 to save at-risk historic buildings in Over-the-Rhine. But to do so, it still needs votes. The online voting competition ends at 5 p.m. Thursday. To help its cause, the foundation will be at Fountain Square Wednesday from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. to help register online voters. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
June 30, 201113 yr Still holding onto that lead! Great job guys!!! Keep it up -- just a few more hours!
June 30, 201113 yr OMG! OTR's in 2nd by over 1300 votes and Dreamland Ballroom from Little Rock rose like a rocket in the middle of the night. Unbelievable. WE CAN STILL WIN THIS THOUGH!
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