Director's Report for 05-08-01

Executive Directors Report for May 8, 2001

Applied for fee waiver:

New Not-for-Profit Members:

New Basic Members:

New Business Members:

New Sponsoring Members:

GOLD Members:

PLATINUM Members:

Services Invoiced:

Advertising/Marketing

Still running the Tuesday "E-Section" classified listing. One year for $4.00/week.
Running Weather/Sports spots on KICKS96 for 13 weeks. Live - at 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, & 8:30 a.m. once a week.
Received new business cards.
Sent in contract for Symphony Program advertisement.
Ad ran in the Progress section of the Pal-Item. (4 days for $408.50)

Achievements for March/April

Website Maintenance:
- Updated photos on the Joseph Moore Museum page page.
- Reviewed & repaired more links in the Sports/Recreation section.
- Calendar Additions
Take photos at Joseph Moore Museum.
Added section for Levi Coffin House lesson plan.
Created page for "Local Genealogy Resources" by Arnold Dean
Created new postcards for Easter/Spring.
Began work on new page of "School Mascot" postcards.
Attended Grant Writing Seminar taught by Joanne Matika and Charlie Ball.
Moved to new office in the City Building.
Made presentations to Sister Cities of Richmond, Inc. and Leadership Wayne County.
Backed up Photo Files to CD-ROM.
Purchase new scanner & table.

On-Going Projects

Terms of Service policy - needs to be updated and approved.
Continue to look at alternative funding sources.
Add dual-lingual message to footer directing visitors to Bablefish service.
Prepare a "Newcomers Page" and/or Community Resources page that will quickly identify helpful organizations.
Work on marketing - make some in-person sales calls.
Send in tax forms by May 15th.

Log Analysis for April.
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only page. Monthly user sessions remained stable from March 2001. Page views increased by 7%. The stability is a good thing, especially considering the great weather we had in April. Our hits/users usually go down as the weather improves and people spend less time inside on their computers. The "user" is our more important number, indicating number of people rather than the number of "hits". The user sessions increased by 43% and the page views by 39% over April of 2000.

1st Quarter 2001 - Quarterly figures for user sessions rose 6% from 4th Quarter '00 levels. 1st Quarter '01 usage increased 50% over 1st Quarter '00.

2000 Yearly Figures show an outstanding 204,689 users requesting 667,511 pages as compared to 100,426 users requesting 310,586 pages in 1999. This is a 101% increase in users and a 111% increase in page views over 1999.

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