Director's Report for 11-14-02

Executive Directors Report for November 14, 2002

Applied for fee waiver: The MOMS CLUB (Waiting on appropriate documentation)

Membership Changes/Additional Fees:

Added Not-for-Profit: First Steps
Added Not-for-Profit: Parents Coalition for Literacy
Added Not-for-Profit: Communities in Schools
Added Not-for-Profit: Noah's Ark Day Care Center

Advertising/Marketing

Agreed to share photos with Ivy Tech for a community promotional project they were putting together.
Continued with 3 times weekly Palladium-Item Ads.
Ran 30 second spots on KICKS96 in August.
Made presentation "Increasing your web presence with WayNet.org's free services" for TechBytes Luncheon.

Achievements for 2nd Quarter

Partnered with MRL in a grant application submitted to the Wayne County Foundation.
Updated pages, collated and compiled information for the WayNet Web Awards.
Prepared for Annual Meeting in October.
Attended TechZone Conference
Transferred waynet.com domain to Verisign and renewed for 5 years.
Website Maintenance:
- Review and update page links & calendar events, as necessary.
- Added informational page on "The Hoosier's Nest" poem.
- Changed Obit link to go directly to Pal-Item's obit page (Thanks, Chris!!)

On-Going Projects

Met with Bruce Daggy and Myra Galloway to discuss a possible collaboration project for Step-Ahead's Resource Book. Suggestion: They could offer a mini-grant to qualified organizations that would cover our $150 web creation costs plus the first year of the $60 not-for-profit membership fee. They are taking the suggestion back to their board of directors.
7/25/02 Update: They agreed and requested an invoice for $1,800 for the Step Ahead Council. I will be working with Myra Galloway on the details.
11/14/02 Update: Work has begun on this project. Web pages have been completed for First Steps, Noah's Ark Day Care, Communities in Schools, and Parent's Coalition for Literacy. Misty Hollis is now the Director for this program.
Vision Committee: Collaborating with Richmond Art Museum, Wayne County Historical Museum, Earlham College and Morrisson-Reeves Library to create content based on Wayne County's artists.
7/25/02 Update: Grant proposal has been written and is awaiting our board's approval.
11/14/02 Update: Grant proposal submitted and turned down. A rewrite is in process.
Terms of Service policy - needs to be updated and approved.
Continue to look at alternative funding sources.
Continue to review & update web pages.

Log Analysis
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only page. User sessions have been stable for the last three months, averaging 36,228 users per month. Web page views have also remained stable, averaging 112,748. I would expect these numbers to remain flat for the remainder of the year or perhaps rising slightly once the word get out that the Pal-Item obits can be reached in one click from WayNet.org.

3rd Quarter 2002 - Quarterly figures for user sessions rose by 61%. Page views rose by 34%. The fact that we have more user sessions is good in that it means we're reaching more people.

2001 Yearly Figures show an outstanding 260,875 users requesting 930,554 pages as compared to 204,689 users requesting 667,511 pages in 2000. This is a 27% increase in users and a 39% increase in page views over 2000. Our actual figures were somewhat larger than this due to the problems involved when the web site was moved to the new server due to the virus problem and we lost access to the log files for the web site. Logs were reset approximately October 10.

2002 Yearly Figures - As of the end of October, we have already surpassed last years figures. So far we have served 342,772 users who have accessed 1,509,385 pages, a 31% increase in users and a 14% increase in hits.

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