Director's Report for 03 July 17

Executive Director's Report for July 17, 2003

Applied for fee waiver:

Membership Changes/Additional Fees:

Removed Basic Member, Deborah K. Rummel
Removed Basic Member, John McCreery
Added Basic Member, AndersonIN.net
Added Basic Member, ThomasBartel.com
Added Business Member, Rhett Baumgartner Commercial Real Estate Developer.
Added Not-for-Profit Member, Community Builders of Richmond

Advertising/Marketing

Shared brochures with local real estate agencies.
Attended Grab-a-Byte Lunch to share how WayNet.org integrates with other community web sites.
Signed 6 month advertising agreement with the Palladium-Item. Worked with them on new ads.
Working with Misty Hollis of Step Ahead to get press on our Social Services Directory.
Submitted agreement to run ads on KICKS96 in August/September/October. (Still waiting for KICKS96 to renew membership.)

Achievements for 2nd Quarter

Completed Membership Survey.
Complete tax forms.
Create Calendar posting and photo sharing policy. Meet with Executive Committee for approvals.
Begin work on Web Encyclopedia of Wayne County - explore database options, content management software (Content DM).
Begin to explore ideas about using volunteers by reading the book "Volunteers: How to get them, how to keep them".
Update calendar software to latest version. Tweak to show only 2 weeks at a time. Tweak to show date and time on event listing.
Created the Social Services Directory in partnership with the Salvation Army and Step Ahead.
Created a section for Running in the Recreation area. Posting information from the Wayne County Challenge.
Added information on the 4-H Fair as a service to our visitors.
Website Maintenance:
- Review and update page links & calendar events, as necessary. Take photos.

Log Analysis
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only page. We are currently averaging 43,938 user sessions per month. Web page views (hits) are averaging 135,032.

2nd Quarter 2003 - Quarterly figures for user sessions rose by 3%. Page views decreased by 3%. User sessions rose by 35% 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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