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WayNet Director's Report - May 18, 2017

Membership
Changes/Additional Fees:

  • (+$300) Kent's Harbor / The Sagamore Resort
  • (+$300) Radford's Meat Market & Deli
  • (-$500) Palladium-Item
  • (-$500) TBK America
  • (-$400) Total Memberships

  • (+$ 0 )
  • (+$ 0 ) Total One Time Sales

Advertising/Marketing/Community Relations

  • Wayne County Connections TV Show (Viewers directed back to website /Page)
    • Taped 2 show segments, featuring the Wayne County Departments or Office Holders - running currently
    • April show featured Fonda Wilds, Director for Lemonade Day.
    • Taped show on 5/16 that will feature Eric Coulter, Dirctor of the Wayne County Health Department.
    • Beth Fields is helping organize guests with several upcoming shows, featuring Wayne County Government offices and departments. Thanks, Beth!
    • The WC Connections page received 34 pageviews from 20 users from March 8 through May 15 per Google Analytics.
  • Twitter - we now have 2,037 followers, a 2.0% increase. Have sent 3,371 tweets.
  • Facebook - 1,228 people "like" our Facebook page (1.7% increase), 74% are female, 24% male. 49.2% are from Richmond, 61.3% are from Wayne County.
  • Our Flickr account regularly receives 500 to 1,600 views daily. Occasionally, we will have an anomaly and it bursts up to 20,000+ in one day. Our 12,393 photos have received 3,078,467 views since we joined in 2005.
  • Our Instagram account (@waynet_org) has 68 posts, 182 followers and 236 following.

Issues & Projects for March / April / May

  • Met with Ed DeLaPaz from the Chamber.
  • Test new Google Custom Search - Layout Issues
  • Add Richmond Jazz games to calendar, among other items. Many, many news releases added.
  • Update Restaurant section.
  • Contacted Greg Fallon, editor of the Pal-Item, Muncie Star-News
  • Run color calibration software.
  • Complete State and Federal Tax forms.
  • Cleaned up files in Lightroom, saving nearly 200 Gb, postponing need for an additional portable hard drive.
  • Attend free webinar - How to Build a Fundraising Board
  • Talked Fundraising ideas with Ken Paust
  • RESEARCHING: Google Forced Change: Update Code for Google Custom Search
    Dear Custom Search Engine Administrator,

    The Custom Search Element API 1.0, which was deprecated in 2012 in favor of API 2.0, is now no longer maintained. API 1.0 may experience outages and failures, and possibly stop working entirely.

    You're receiving this message because our records show you might currently be using the Custom Search Element API 1.0. You can confirm if you're using this version by looking at the code on your search page for a call to google.search.CustomSearchControl.

    Next Steps

    To avoid any potential interruptions in service, please update your website to use the Custom Search Element API 2.0. The easiest way to transition is through the CSE Control Panel at cse.google.com, where you can generate your new Custom Search Engine code and add it to your website.

    We're always improving the Custom Search Engine and we thank you for your support. For more information about the Custom Search Element API, visit Google Developers.

    Sincerely,
    The Custom Search Engine Team
  • RESEARCHING: Google Forced Change: Purchase of SSL Certificate - Discussion
    Nonsecure Collection of Passwords will trigger warnings in Chrome 56 for http://waynet.org/

    To: owner of http://waynet.org/

    Beginning in January 2017, Chrome (version 56 and later) will mark pages that collect passwords or credit card details as "Not Secure" unless the pages are served over HTTPS.

    The following URLs include input fields for passwords or credit card details that will trigger the new Chrome warning. Review these examples to see where these warnings will appear, and so you can take action to help protect users' data. The list is not exhaustive.

    http://www.waynet.org/talk/talk/messages/15/57.html?1211921835

    The new warning is the first stage of a long-term plan to mark all pages served over the non-encrypted HTTP protocol as "Not Secure".

    Here's how to fix this problem:

    Use HTTPS pages to collect sensitive information
    To prevent the "Not Secure" notification from appearing when Chrome users visit your site, move collection of password and credit card input fields to pages served using the HTTPS protocol.

    Read the WebFundamentals article
    Need more help?

    • Learn more about this change in the blog post "Moving Towards a More Secure Web."
    • Learn how to Secure your site with HTTPS.
    • Ask questions in our forum for more help - mention message type [WNC-10026400].
  • Content:
    • Updated: Library of Congress links on our Architecture page
    • Update ICL page.
    • Update Community pages - populations numbers and the links to the source of those numbers.
    • Updated Spotlight Pages:
      Wayne Works
      Single G
    • Updated logos for Wayne Bank & Trust, West End Bank and IU East

    Photo Sessions:

    • WayNet Board Photos
    • Dave Snow's Town Hall at Starr School
    • Spring Outdoor Photos
    • Dublin Library
    • MRL Renovations
    • Richmond Farmer's Market
  • Website Maintenance:
    • Clean broken internal links.
    • Update logos, links, as requested.
    • Review and update page links & calendar events, and press releases as necessary. Take photos.
  • Technical issues:
    • Custom Google Search needs code updated.
    • Historic Downtown Tour. Map is now not working - need to follow up.

    • My To-Do List:

    • Website Overhaul - continue transferring pages to new layout - New, Spotlight and Minutes are still outstanding to transfer. Often viewed spotlighted items are transferred as they receive notice.
    • Research updated calendar software options
    • Ongoing: Schedule guests for County Connections.
    • Ongoing: Make calls on members/potential members
    • Ongoing: Continue to review & update web pages.
    • Prepare & Mail invoices and statements each month, Accounts Receivable
    • Ongoing - Review files for clean up using Screaming Frog SEO spider and Optimizr.com.
    • Set up Internship/Volunteer Program

    Log Analysis

    Google Analytics Report for 2016 / Comparison to 2015

    Current Google Analytics Report, compare previous period

    Current Google Analytics Report, compare same period/previous year

    This report compares our analytic figures from March 16, 2017 to May 15, 2017 with the same period the previous 2 months. The second report compares it to the same period the previous year.

    Note that our unique visits are down significantly, likely due to our site being "dinged" by Google for not being "mobile-friendly". However, our pages/visit and time on site are relatively steady, as compared to 2016. Likely this is because while we're missing the casual surfer, we're retaining our core group of local visitors.

    Historical Background

    The figures that were formerly in this section were created from the statistics generated by the AWStats program offered online by our web host.

    One of the major changes that occurred with AMHosting moving our site to a new server (which is supposed to be more stable) is that we no longer have access to AWStats, the statistics program we have been using for years.

    The downside is that we can no longer compare apples to apples when looking at our historical data. The good news is that we have had Google Analytics set up on the site for some time, so we can still maintain a long-term overview by looking at this service.

    The key - to me - is to properly choose which metrics are important to us and to be able view them quickly and easily on a regular basis. Google Analytics offers such a depth of information, it can feel like you're drowning in it.

    Once we have settled on what metrics are important to us, these can be published in a report which is emailed on a regular basis. Should this be sent to the board group mail - once a month?, once a week?, once a quarter?

    I just (as in 9/17/15) updated the code used on our website to the most current version for Google Analytics. Hopefully, this will improve the reporting, but there is a small possibility that things could be awry. I will keep monitoring it. I know there are old pages on our site that do not have the Analytics code on them. As I continue to switch the older pages to our new layout, this will be corrected.

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