Director's Report for 07-10-01

Executive Directors Report for July 10, 2001

Applied for fee waiver:

Richmond Area Railroaders Society

New Not-for-Profit Members:

The Lauramoore Friends Home
Richmond Alumni Association

New Basic Members:

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.
Will run ad in B/W Maps - $99 - also get 50 maps to hand out.
Talked to several Uptown Richmond merchants about WayNet memberships.
Bus bench on South 5th & B will be removed this month.

Achievements for June/July

Prepared for the "Creating a Powerful Web Presence" seminar that I gave at the AIM Conference on June 22nd.
Attended seminar on Copyright while at AIM conference.
Attended Nominations Committee Meeting - Spoke with E. Thomas Kemp about board nomination.
Search for ideas for WayNet News.
Discussed the benefits of membership with a renewing sponsor.
Emailing info about membership to Cambridge City Chamber of Commerce.
Attended Technology Zone Initiative Meeting.
Another WebTrends update. Yeah!! Figured out how to run Web Trends reports on a single file!
Website Maintenance:
- Took photos, gathered logos, and information for Spotlight section and homepage photos.
- Prepared web pages for Web Site Awards.

On-Going Projects

Terms of Service policy - needs to be updated and approved.
Continue to look at alternative funding sources.
Work on marketing - make some in-person sales calls.

Log Analysis for May.
Ran weekly and posted on the Members Only page. Monthly user sessions decreased by 7% from May 2001. Page views decreased by 4%. Our hits/users usually go down as the weather improves and people spend less time inside on their computers, so I'm not too concerned. Still - more advertising may be in order. The "user" is our more important number, indicating number of people rather than the number of "hits". The user sessions increased by 42% and the page views by 57% over June of 2000.

2nd Quarter 2001 - Quarterly figures for user sessions rose 3% from 1st Quarter '01 levels. 2nd Quarter '01 usage increased 41% over 2nd 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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