national office « Being Presbyterian

Tag: national office

Deck the Holodeck

The staff of the national offices of The Presbyterian Church in Canada gathered this morning to celebrate the season of Advent and the coming of Christmas by decorating the area affectionately called “the holodeck” at 50 Wynford Drive.

While I haven’t yet discovered how this central section of the building acquired this Trek-inspired nickname, I can say that it looks significantly more festive now than it did last week. Here are some photos of the decorating in progress:

: Susan James and Zuzka Tatiersky untangling a garland.

: Stephen Allen and Katherine Masterson assembling wreaths

: Matt Donnelly experiences the frustration of burned out bulbs while Jeff Crawford looks on

: David Phillips adjusting Christmas tree lights

: The PCC/WMS Bookroom gets decorated as well

: Katharine Masterton, Alex MacDonald and Barb Summers prepare a garland for hanging

: Terrie-Lee Hamilton, Anne Phillips and Colleen McCue prepare a wreath

: Frances Hogg, Elizabeth Bartlett and Stephen Kendall working on the garland

: Zuzka Tatiersky, Susan James, Don Muir, and Jackie Czegledi hang a garland

: Rick Fee, Sheilah Alyea, Matt Donnelly, Terrie-Lee Hamilton, and David Phillips get the lights on the tree

: Colleen McCue and Barb Summers lighting a wreath

: Most of the decorating crew hard at work

For the record, I did hang a few wreaths – there just isn’t any photographic evidence of it.

: Events,People

: 50 Wynford, Christmas, decorating, holodeck, national office

Traffic Patterns at Presbyterian.ca

Yesterday I gave a brief presentation to the staff at the Presbyterian national office about upcoming changes to the denomination website - more on that later. I started with a few interesting numbers related to our web traffic which I thought I’d quickly share here. These numbers represent traffic from the end of July through yesterday, October 20th, 2008.

the site has been visited just over 53,000 times.
almost half of the visitors (48%) came to the site directly, meaning a bookmark, an email link, or typing in the address.
- Of those, over 80% landed first on the home page
The next largest group of visitors (31%) came to the site via Google.
- Of those, 38% again landed first on the home page.
Overall, more than 60% of our visitors reach the homepage first.

The point of those numbers was to emphasize the importance of the homepage of this site in particular. A refreshed homepage will go live this week – perhaps as early as today – that I hope will help folks find what they’re looking for more easily at presbyterian.ca.

: General

: national office, presbyterian.ca, statistics, website