Monday, April 28, 2008

Runaway Grandma - Visiting Author

ATTENTION BOOK CLUBBERS!

Jill has spoken to the author for our July 16th summer author’s night. The author will obtain books for us for $15 and will pre-sign them with personalization for each of us wishing to purchase one. Jill has graciously offered to collect the money, compile a list of names for the author and to pick up the books in Bradford, PA for distribution to members at the June 4th meeting (or around there if you aren’t attending the meeting).

The deadline for ordering personalized books through Jill is absolutely May 13th. I would appreciate you all spreading this info by word of mouth as well since not everyone opens their e-mail or checks the blog in a timely fashion.

Call me if you have any questions. Again, our thanks to Jill for all she is doing to facilitate this special “author night”. We should probably do an earlier start time and substantial food for this as we have for past summer meetings. I guess we can discuss that at the June meeting.

Jan

Friday, April 25, 2008

April meeting

Ahhhh.... the snow has melted, temperatures are going up, the crocuses have popped, and the days are getting longer. Spring has sprung in Craneridge!

Here's the link to this month's Newsletter. Enjoy!

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Blog Statistics

Hi Everyone!
This month (April), I celebrate 6-months as the Crane Ridge Book Club Blog-Master (WOW, that sounds SO official!). I have had a wonderful time thus far!

When I began maintaining the blog, I was curious as to the traffic our site gets. This was partly due to Jan's comments about her Google search - for those who don't know the story, Jan Googled "co-ed book club" and OUR site was #4 on the list of results - so, I installed a statistics tracker on the site.

The tracker has been able to capture statistics starting November 8, 2007. Since then, we have had over 200 visits to the site with 91 "unique visitors" (individual computers who have visited the site). Here's a quick snapshot of the reports I receive.
It's been so exciting to see how the site's traffic ebbs and flows (especially around meeting dates). Also, the detail of the statistics received is amazing... it calculates everything from how someone got to the site, to number of minutes spent viewing, to where the visitor is from. For a "geek" like me, this is pretty cool stuff. If you'd like to see more stats, just ask - in the mean time, I won't bore our members who are pure readers with my numbers mumbo-jumbo.

Looking forward to sharing future site milestones with you!

Cheers,
Jill