Director's Report for 05 January 18

Executive Director's Report for January 18, 2005

Applied for fee waiver:

Membership Changes/Additional Fees:

None

Advertising/Marketing

Began one month campaign of 1"/1 column ad twice a week in the Palladium-Item. Once on Sunday & once during the week.
A similar theme ad - slightly larger - will appear in the Chamber of Commerce's Annual Report on January 30th.

Issues & Projects for November/December/January

Completed Artists of Wayne County. We are waiting for 2 more written permissions prior to sending out the publicity.
Unable to fully "publish" the web site. Again struggling with this issue that we had last spring, can manually back up each folder.
Participated in the 4Community (Vision/United Way/Foundation grant) process. Personal time - representing Waynet.
Purchased & installed a new mouse.
Took 3 floating holidays and 2 personal days during this period.
Website Maintenance:
- Work on creating a new home page for our new version. [samples 1, 2, 3, 4].
- Worked on search function issues. Google or Atomz?
- Research and download & install a program called HamWeather to have a more flexible option of presenting the local weather. Ran into an issue with our web host.
- Created a new set of Fall e-cards for our selection.
- Review and update page links & calendar events, as necessary. Take photos.

Log Analysis
Web Trends has been refusing to read the logs from amhosting. I have began using the figures created by the AWStats program offered online by our web host.

Monthly figures are now being posted on the Top Twenty page. We are currently averaging 33,942 user sessions per month. Web page views (hits) are averaging 96,491. Users were up 2% in December after a 17% increase in October (the first month using AWStats). Page views decreased by 1% after a 4% increase in November.

4th Quarter 2004 - Quarterly figures for user sessions increased by 14%. Page views increased by 2%. User sessions declined by 32% over the same time period last year.

2004 Yearly Figures show a 20% decrease to 407,300 users requesting 1,157,890 pages as compared to 458,741 users requesting 1,605,683 pages in 2003. This is a 26% decrease in users and a 28% decrease in page views over 2003.

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