Director's Report for 03 November 20

Executive Director's Report for November 20, 2003

Applied for fee waiver:

Membership Changes/Additional Fees:

Removed Basic Member, Rich Farm Garden Supply
Removed Basic Member, Richmond Cyclers
Removed Basic Member, Sharp Sites
Removed Basic Member, Arnold Law Office
Removed Basic Member, Robert G. Roach, Jr.
Removed Basic Member, Marketing & Creative Services
Removed Basic Member, Brenda Fugate
Removed Basic Member, Kent Bowling
Removed Basic Member, Chuck Clark
Removed Basic Member, Hoffco/Comet
Removed Basic Member, Jimmy Lawrence
Removed Sponsoring Member, Summit Computer Systems
Added Not-for-Profit Member, United Way of Whitewater Valley

Advertising/Marketing

Continuing 6 month advertising agreement with the Palladium-Item.
Spoke to and sent several letters to interested parties. (Decision lead time is usually a minimum of 6 months.)
Speak at Career Day at IU East on the career of Web Design.

Achievements & Projects for October/November

4th Quarter invoices & statements
Ordered/Delivered WayNet.org shirts
Set up Discussion List for Noah's Ark/CCI Child Care List. - Trained owners.
Struggle with back ups/work with Hypervine on FTP and backup issues.
Begin work on designs for the Encyclopedia of Wayne County.
Work on projected budget for 2004.
Website Maintenance:
- Review and update page links & calendar events, as necessary. Take photos.
- Review possible upgrade of Talk of the Town - decide to wait a bit.
- Begin a web page to link to all of the "This Day in Wright Brothers History" articles that have been published on the Palladium-Item web site.

Log Analysis
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only page. Monthly figures are now being posted on the Top Twenty page. We are currently averaging 45,022 user sessions per month. Web page views (hits) are averaging 133,558. Users were up 11% in October with a 12% increase in page views from the September numbers, with a 41% increase over October of 2002.

3rd Quarter 2003 - Quarterly figures for user sessions decreased by 3%. Page views decreased by 1%. User sessions rose by 26% over the same time period last year.

2002 Yearly Figures show an outstanding 413,253 users requesting 1,291,024 pages as compared to 260,875 users requesting 930,554 pages in 2000. This is a 58% increase in users and a 39% increase in page views over 2001. Our actual figures may have been slightly higher than this due to logging problems in January of 2001.

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