Director's Report for 14 January 2010

Executive Director's Report for January 14, 2010

Applied for fee waiver:

Membership Changes/Additional Fees:

(+ 500) Increased Level of the Economic Development Corporation from Sponsor to Gold (as of July 1, 2010)
In discussion w/one sponsor regarding renewal.
Total Change: ($500)

Advertising/Marketing/Community Relations

Wayne County Connections TV Show (Mentioned as "Producer"/Page)
Ad in the 2009 Richmond/Wayne County map. We receive 50 maps to hand out, but more importantly, 3,500 to 4,000 are sent/given to area visitors at the Tourism Bureau, Police Dept., etc.
Twittering - we now have 185 followers - up from 167 followers at November meeting.
Facebook - figured out how to connect our Twitter "tweets" to our Facebook page, making it a useful tool for sharing information. We now have 42 followers of our Facebook page.

Issues & Projects for November/December/January

Continued working on ICNA dissolution. Dissolution complete. Check for $5,285.20 arrived on 1/11/2010.
Participate in Community committees (Area 9 Social Service "Soup")
Revised site map for WayNet v3.0
Met with board members for 2nd website redevelopment discussion.
Attend MRL Staff Development Day
Renewed "waynet.org" domain name for 5 years - through 5/27/2015
Tried to debug HTML for Ecard system. - Requested assistance from Technology Committee.
Added/Removed members as required.
Website Maintenance:
- Multiple calendar events added.
- Review and update page links & calendar events, as necessary. Take photos.

My To-Do List:

Continue Vision and Blueprint in preparation for site redevelopment.
Make calls on members/potential members
Review & update members email addresses - send "Member's Only" info.
Continue to review & update web pages.

Log Analysis (as of December 31, 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 posted on the Top Twenty page. Current average is 60,275 user sessions per month. Web page views are averaging 231,831. Users sessions decreased 5% in November and 10% in December. Page views dropped slightly with a 5% decrease in November and a 1% decrease in December.

4th Quarter 2009 - Quarterly figures for user sessions decreased 3% from 3rd Quarter. Page views decreased by 4% in the third quarter following a huge 40% increase in the 2nd Quarter of 2009. This large swing was likely due to the use and then removal of the original e-card program that was being accessed for nefarious purposes.

2009 Yearly Figures show a 7% decrease to 723,298 users requesting 2,781,969 pages as compared to 780,140 users requesting 1,960,314 pages in 2008. This is a 7% decrease in users and a 42% increase in page views over 2008.

2008 = 780,140 2009 = 723,298

2008 = 1,960,314 2009 = 2,781,969

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