Director's Report for 12 March 2009

Executive Director's Report for March 12, 2009

Applied for fee waiver:

Membership Changes/Additional Fees:

(+ 60) Added Community Education Coalition as a Not-for-Profit Member
(+ 60) Added Dudley J. Fetzer as a Basic Member
(+ 60) Added Adam Tidrow as a Basic Member
(- 60) Removed Central United Methodist Church as a Not-for-Profit Member
(- 60) Removed Rabe Law Offices as a Basic Member
(+ 60) Added Gaar Foundation as a Not-for-Profit Member (They had formerly been fee-waived not-for-profit).
(-400) Removed AFLAC-Angela Johnson as Commerce Member
Total Change: -$280

Photo Sales

Cherbo Publishing (1 image)
Jennifer Niven (5 images)
Wayne County Tourism Bureau (9 images)
Total Sales = $375.00

Advertising/Marketing/Community Relations

Created business card size "coupon" for members to give to potential members.
Met with Bob Johnson/Kicks96 re: 2009 program - no contract yet.
Create articles for "How To Center"
- How to Make the Most of Your WayNet.org Membership
- How to Remember Cut/Copy/Paste
Appearing on WCTV County Connections TV Show February/March.
- Created County Connections page.
Attended EDC Open House

Issues & Projects for January/February/March

Donated 1997 issue HP Printer to Townsend Community Center
Explore usage of Twitter account for WayNet.org.
Met with Marketing Committee. (report)
Fixed image issue with Atomz, our search service.
Created "Google Library" of local titles.
Updated installation of WordPress.
Begin research of online backup systems.
Added/Removed members as required.
Website Maintenance:
- Update Restaurant listing - Add Warehouse Cafe and Clay Pot Cafe
- Wrestle with server outage issues for most of January. Appears to be resolved.
- Using link checker software, I am slowly reviewing and fixing outdated links.
- Research and create .htaccess file so it can be maintained via backups in case of server failure.
- Review and update page links & calendar events, as necessary. Take photos.

Log Analysis (as of February 28, 2009)
These figures were created by the AWStats program offered online by our web host. We also track usage with Google Analytics.

Monthly figures are now being posted on the Top Twenty page. Current average is 60,724 user sessions per month. Web page views are averaging 169,792. Users sessions increased 3% in January and 21% in February. Page views decreased by 17% in January, due to our server downtime. February rebounded by 26%.

4th Quarter 2008 - Quarterly figures for user sessions decreased 9% from 3rd Quarter. Page views held steady in the fourth quarter following a 13% decrease in the 3rd Quarter of 2008.

2008 Yearly Figures show a 17% increase to 780,140 users requesting 1,960,314 pages as compared to 668,203 users requesting 1,772,590 pages in 2007. This is a 17% increase in users and a 14% increase in page views over 2007.

2008 = 780,140

2008 = 1,960,314

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