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Title: Report (1) to AGM From the Webmaster - what has happened in the last year Post by: grahame on June 07, 2019, 08:42:09 The Great Western Coffee Shop Forum
* Founded in 2007 by rail campaigners concerned at developments on First Great Western * Over the 12 years move from primarily a protest group to primarily partners - Running from 2007 to 2019 as a private site with help from a growing group of members, moderators and admins - Requirement for continuity planning "for the next 12 years" - New Constitution based on Community Rail pillars with candid friend approach - Official acceptance (DfT) via successful CCIF bid and committed financial support from GWR - Responsibility for posts remains with individuals posting them - Editorial oversite and direction remains with moderator and admin team, who are confirmed by voting members Last year - Strong forum (data to follow) - GDRP - we conformed anyway (always have done) but re-checked with members. 2 out of 2000 left. - Closing down of TransWilts members board; forum "spawned" TransWits CPR but they "divorced" in 2018 - entered ACoRP awards (small project) ... short listed and third placed - Identified need for continuity planning and positioning - Applied for CCIF grant in October 2018 - Revamped format of extra pages over Christms - Added "Transport Scholars" - 52 + 12 admins / moderators - Addition of Facebook and Twitter feeds to point towards forum - Worked forward allowing for either outcome - Extraordinary meeting in February - Constitution vote in March - Set up GWR contact point at whole-franchise level with quarterly meetings - CRP style input to GW conference invites - Appointment of finance team / thanks to Jo for taking on treasurer role - Community Rail in the City in May - CCIF success - soft outcome; we are officially listed so can confirm Some Statistics -June 1 2018 to May 31 2019 * 27,267 posts (v 24,440 in previous 12 months) * 79,623 users of whom 78,362 were new. * 309,213 sessions, 2,042,003 page views = 6.6 pages per session * Of these UK - 293,167 sessions, 71,993 users of whom 70,792 were new. -- Webmaster happy to talk on sources and voracity of these statistics. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/statsforacorp19.jpg) There is a historic correlation between posting rates and major talking points with GWR * However - we have a 12% rise in posts year on year * There is an element of widening our coverage to associated 'grey' areas * Core traffic remains guests; key arrivals via search engines Metrics of our visitors Ages of users well spread; 18 to 24 a bit low. Predomiantly male (75%) ... These differ from typical train user metirics BUT They are far less biased towards old men than most rail user groups (http://www.wellho.net/pix/agm19_ages.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/agm19_gender.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/agm19_affinity.jpg) A huge THANK YOU To our active admins and moderators - BobM and Chris from Nailsea - Bruce, JoHoare, Lee, Phil, Red Squirrel, Richard Fairhurst, Timmer, TonyK and Western Pathfinder To our members - the 250 of you who have been posted in the last year - the 200 others who have been logged in but not posted in the last year To guests - and from people approaching us at Reading, I know how much we do for you too To supporters and wellwishers within the rail sector - ACoRP, Cross Country, DfT, GWR, Network Rail, Rail Future, SWR, Transport Focus, TravelWatch SouthWest - Rail user groups, station friends groups and Community Rail Partnerships This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |