Yahoo! Singapore Answers blog

We’re pleased to announce a new re-design of the My Activity Page to freshen up the page as well as some changes to how you control who sees your content.

Follow this link (when signed in) to see your new My Activity Page

As we’ve made quite a few changes we’ve broken this down for you by section, so let’s get started.

1 – Member Info

Avatar:

Activity Summary:

• We’ve removed the Activity Summary chart and simplified it so it’s now included at the top of this box.
• Your name is now displayed on the right side of your avatar with your registration date, level, and total points, points needed for the next level and how many points you earned this week.

We’ve kept the `How others see me` link so you can check how you are viewed publicly.

2 – My Statistics

• We’ve moved the My Statistics chart up the page and this will now show details around both your questions and answers.
• For you to keep track of how popular your questions are with the Answers community we now track how many of your questions have received stars.

3 – Your Q&A

Your content now appears right below the user card. We haven’t changed what the functions of the tabs do, they still do the following:

• My Answers: The default tab that displays the five most recent questions you have answered. Want to see them all? Click on `More Answers`. You can sort these by all answers or best answers.
• My Questions: The Question tab displays the five most recent questions you have asked.
• My Starred Questions: The My Starred Questions tab displays the most recent questions you have starred. These can be sorted in order of the newest, oldest or questions with the most stars.
• Watchlist: The Watchlist tab displays the most recent questions that you are tracking.

4 – Activity Details

On the old My Activity Page, the Activity Summary tab and Activity Details tab were combined into the same module. We have now created a separate Activity Details module and it is placed right under your Q&A. From here, you’ll be able to peruse all of your recent activity on the site.

5 – My Network’s Q&A

With the new page we’ve brought all of your Network and your Network’s Q&A together towards the bottom of the page.

In addition we’ve made another change to how you share your questions and your Answers Network:

Sharing and Network

Many of you gave us feedback that you wanted more control over who you Share your Q&A and Answers Network with.

Now under Edit My Preferences, on the Privacy and Communications tab you have the option to share your Q&A and Network with:

• Everyone
• My Contacts and Fans
• My Contacts

As a reminder, contacts are people you add and fans are people who add you.

Tell us what you think

Once you’ve given the new My Activity Page a test drive, tell us what you think! There will be more changes in the future so please give us your feedback. As always you’re welcome to leave your comments here, or on our Suggestion Board.

Thanks, and we hope you like it!

There has been a lot of interest and activity around our move to Yahoo! profiles. A benefit of using one profile for your Yahoo! experience means you can now share your Answers activity with those you are connected to via your Yahoo! profile, even if they aren’t Answers users. Sharing your updates will help you get better responses to your questions and will show off your knowledge to your entire social network!

We have added two new ‘Updates’ features to Answers:

• One notifies your contacts each time you ask a question
• One notifies your contacts of each question you answer

Now, when you are at the “Preview your question” stage of asking a question, you will be prompted to “Manage your updates”. Here you choose if you want to share your updates to your social connections.

By default, updates will be set to “Don’t share my updates” to keep your content private unless you choose otherwise. To give you control over what and when you share, this option can be changed anytime you ask or answer a question. You have full control over this setting from the “Edit my profile” page too. By not sharing your updates, whatever you do on Answers will not appear on your Yahoo! profile.

When you ask or answer we offer a link to your profile to show you exactly who you are currently sharing updates with. Click the “Manage who sees your updates” link to be taken to profiles which is the place where you can control who see all of your Yahoo! Updates.

Had enough of seeing this message? Tick the box and we promise it won’t appear again.

We’ve tried tp make controlling your updates as simple as possible, but if you want more information about managing your Answers updates, you can find it through these Help pages: http://help.yahoo.com/l/sg/yahoo/answers/updates/

If you are still unsure about how your profile works or how to change features on your Yahoo! profile, check out our sister-blog www.yprofileblog.com and this article in particular: http://www.yprofileblog.com/blog/2009/03/31/answers-questions-about-profiles/ that is addressed to Answers users.

We hope you like the new feature, happy updating!