Following on from our post last week about adding updates from your connections, we thought some of you may be interesting in finding out a little more about Profiles.
There’s a large help section on profiles available, answering many of the questions you may have about connections, guestbooks, people search, privacy etc. And just last week, the Yahoo!7 Profiles Team launched a set of tutorials with step-by-step instructions on how to use notifications, controlling who can see what, organising your contacts and changing your profile photo amongst others.
Following up on our recent posts about the launch of the Smarter Inbox, we thought we’d update you on one of the latest features now available to you!
Yahoo!7 now allows you to share updates from third parties such as Twitter, Blogger and YouTube to your connections, making it easier to keep up with friends and family. And even better, with the update management tool, you can choose just who see’s what… Meaning you can share everything with the world, just your connections, or if you don’t want people seeing anything, hide them from view completely.
Let’s meet the Smith family!
John and his wife Jennifer are users of Yahoo!7 mail, along with Jennifer’s father Joe and their teenage son James, they swap a lot of emails and use the web for many different things. Added to the mix is James’ girlfriend Renee, and all have added each other to their connections via Yahoo!7 Mail.
Jennifer likes to upload photos to share with friends and family.
Joe likes to listen to old classics using online radio.
Renee keeps up with her friends using different social networking tools.
James is a fan of online videos and maintains a blog.
With updates from your connections, you can keep up with all of this right from your Inbox, which is perfect for John as he is often busy and seeing what everyone is up to at a glance saves him time.
So how does all of this work you ask? Well, let’s take a look at James’ mail inbox…
To access your profile from your Inbox, either click on the Profile link as shown in James’ Inbox above or navigate directly to http://au.profiles.yahoo.com/.
To access your Updates, select the Updates tab as shown above.
You can see here that James is already seeing photos his Mum has uploaded to Picasa, a tweet that Renee posted on Twitter and he can see what his Grandpa has been listening to on Last.fm. From there, click on the Share More link.
Under Share More, you can see that James already has Blogger and YouTube set to share with his Yahoo!7 connections. To add another site to your Updates, either search for a common user or nickname you may use on the Internet, enter the exact user name or web address. It’s really that easy!
By clicking on Manage My Updates, you can choose the level of privacy for each site you add:
Anyone: anyone can see that update.
My Connections: only your connections may see that update
No One: Only you will see that update.
You will also find an option directly below this option which will allow you to set privacy levels for different Yahoo!7 sites and services, as well as which ones you wish to be notified about.
You can currently add Updates from 18 different third party sites, some of which include:
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