Director's Report for 2-22-99

Executive Directors Report for February 22, 1999

New Not-for-Profit Members(1)
Richmond Civic Theatre

New Basic Members:(1)
Brett Boyd
Jimmy Lawrence

Basic Members Invoiced Directly:(3)
Gibbs, Eric
Pottery Auction (paid)
Brady, Ware, & Shoenfeld, Inc.
January bill to Infocom for 17 basic members and 1 Expanded member - $110.00 - Paid
January bill to Paust for 7 basic members - $35.00 - Paid

New Expanded Members: (1)
Bowers Building and Remodeling Co. and The Woodshop - Paid $360 for Commerce Package

New Sponsoring Members - Paid: (1)
Wayne Bank and Trust Co.

Existing Sponsoring Members Renewed Their Membership:
Computer HELP!

Existing Sponsoring Members Invoiced:
SANYO-Verbatim CD Company
Success Thru Learning

Services Invoiced:
Hagerstown FFA - Web page set up - $50.00

Donations:
Hagerstown FFA - $100.00 donation - THANK YOU!

Applied for fee waiver:
Forwarded new policy to Friends United Meeting Application - have not heard back from Johan. They have given us a link from their home page.

Advertising
Requested to continue ads on radio Kicks96 - once per week - prior to sports in the morning. Seems to be a problem with this - I am investigating. Will run through April.

Running 30 second ads, 2 every other day, on 101.3 during morning drive time.

Log Analysis
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only page. Weekly averages are1770 visitors and 5022 hits. January figures were up significantly, 30% on user sessions and 40% on page views. This hopefully signifies that more people are becoming aware of WayNet - but also reflecting two weeks that we were snowed in - and no school. Fourth quarter figures are quite impressive with 43% increase in user sessions and 22% increase in hits. I expect another significant jump in 1st quarter figures.

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Achievements for February

Sales calls - by phone or in person - that have not yet signed up
Gail Swanstrom, Marketing Manager for Olive
Sent letters to Nettle Creek, Northeastern, and Western Wayne Schools - Western Wayne is promising.
Filed papers for changes in our Articles of Incorporation so that we can receive our not-for-profit status from the State of Indiana
Created a page for not-for-profit Hagerstown FFA. They also have kindly donated $100.00
Spoke to the Wayne County Home Builders Association Board - They have voted to use our Commerce Package. I'm waiting for them to follow up.
Hired Summersault to give February seminar.
Attended "The Nuts and Bolts of Being a Board Member" seminar held at IU East on 2/11/99.
Added a news page to feature the local news page provided by WQLK/WHON.
Added new links to the Health page and updated other links.
Participated in the Information Technology Grant Committee for Richmond Community Schools.
Continued to updated the WayNet site in anticipation of our new "gold" and "platinum" members. Changing the internal set-up so that it's easy to add information across the site by only changing one page. About 2 more folders to complete.
Discovered, researched and repaired problems with WayNet's search page.
Wrote an article and submitted to the Chamber for inclusion in the Chamber Update.
Signed up for new on-line service to help reduce the size of photos and graphics to reduce the download time for our pages.

On-Going Projects for the coming month

Sales calls
Set up system for notifying/billing not-for-profit groups.
Continue to look at alternative funding sources.
Prepare letter for distribution to Chamber members touting benefits of Waynet membership.
Prepare letter for distribution to restaurants and motels touting benefits of our Commerce package.

Web Pages

more recreation pages
Add discussion section.
work with Jim Waecher at the Museum to create pages on Richmond manufactured automobiles and local Tiffany Windows.
Peter Suber-Thorpe requested that I take over & update his Government and Politics in Indiana site. I will slowly be incorporating this into WayNet.
Review hyperlinks and make corrections as necessary.

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