Dear Friends of Goanet, With the Goan community's active participation on Goanet driving the dialogue amongst Goans in Goa and the Diaspora, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Goanet has a new and improved website at www.goanet.org.
At the outset, our main objective was to provide our members with a user friendly interface to access the mailing list archives. As the project developed it took on a life of its own. The website now provides some novel features. WEBSITE FEATURES 1. News You can now access the latest news from Goanet on our website. 2. Goanet Reader This features interesting essays submitted by a variety of authors. 3. Mailing lists This section features a user friendly way to subscribe to the Goanet mailing lists. You can also change your membership preferences here. Also included in this section is access to the popular Goanet archives dating back to 1999. 4. Tutorials For those of us who have trouble posting to Goanet in plain text, we have a simple tutorial to walk you through the process. 5. Contact Us This section provides all our contact information. 6. Announcements This feature provides a simple method for us to communicate information to our website visitors. 7. Support Goanet Goanet is a non-profit volunteer-driven organization that provides a valuable public service. We rely on your support to provide these services. This section provides a number of ways in which you can support Goanet. 8. Polls We hope to ask your opinion on some sizzling topics. 9. Events Calendar Goanet is a unique platform for communication worldwide. We hope to provide Goans around the world with a list of events both in their countries and abroad. Please feel free to submit events in your corner of the world. 10. Aichea Dissak Chintop (Thought for the Day) Dominic Fernandes' thoughtful one-liners are featured in this section. As you can see, our website is filled with interesting and useful information. And, this is just the start. We plan to develop our website further to provide some innovative tools. Having said this, we will not neglect our mailing lists. We will develop our website and mailing lists to compliment each other. We hope that our members will provide direction to us through their continued feedback. We'd like to thank the Goanet community for its support over the last 10 years. Goanet owes its success to you. Special thanks go to our volunteers for their outstanding public service: Fred Noronha, Viviana Coelho, Bosco D'Mello, and new volunteers Michelle D'Souza and Christina Pinto. Enjoy the website! Best wishes, Herman Carneiro Founder, Goanet
