GenevaLunch is growing up, shifting into a more sophisticated community newspaper format to meet the demands of our readers, who have grown steadily in number each month since we began. GL has been free to everyone, entirely online, five days a week for two years and we would like to thank our readers by offering you an even better service.

What has changed

The news

We are now putting the most important news at the top of the page, just like a traditional newspaper. As you scroll down you’ll see the beginning of each of the latest stories: local, regional, Swiss, all written with our English-speaking readers in mind.

You’ll also see brief summaries of recent world news stories, gathered by GenevaLunch from sources around the world, appearing in their own Today’s world news box. We link you to these sources and any others we think might help you better understand what is going on in the world around you.

Our Feature stories and interviews are highlighted in a separate box so you spot them easily.

There are several other changes; two key ones are that our bloggers now each have their own page and archives, and that we will be using a searchable database for our events and resources.

Blogs

These used to be streamed together on our GL Community pages, which was often confusing. The new, separate blogs allow our contributors to develop their blogs better, offering you regular links, for example.You can now subscribe to a feed for each blogger, so if you want to read Jared Bloch on “Man oh Man” but you don’t care about wine-talk, with Ellen Wallace on “Among the vines,” you can make that choice (we don’t mind at all!).

Events and resources

Our events and resources pages have new search options that allow you to search by geographic location, category, key word, and for events, the date. Our new calendar lets you know what is happening on any given day in the region. We’re keen to add your events: contact events@genevalunch.com

Guides and photos

We’re still working on developing these, but you can visit them now, knowing that they’ll soon offer you more.

Our feeds

You can subscribe (it’s free, of course!) to GenevaLunch or to any of the following sections, by going to the top right of any page. Here’s the list:

Among the Vines: http://feeds.feedburner.com/amongthevines
Book my Place: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bookmyplace
Editor’s Notepad: http://feeds.feedburner.com/editorsnotepad
Gardener in the Sky: http://feeds.feedburner.com/gardenerinthesky
GenevaLunch: http://feeds.feedburner.com/genevalunch
Guest Bloggers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/glguestbloggers
Man Oh Man: http://feeds.feedburner.com/manohman
Nyon Notes: http://feeds.feedburner.com/nyonnotes
The Fine Line: http://feeds.feedburner.com/glthefineline

And now a word for our hard working team: Special thanks go to Olivier Tripet and Mathieu Favez at b-spirit for their development work and for safely moving the site to its new home, and to Lisa Parenti and Nathalie Brique at Parenti Design for our bright new look. Christine Métayer-Apfel at The Team communications platform in Carouge is helping us get the word out that GenevaLunch is what you need if you want to be informed.

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