Yahoo! Answers New Zealand Blog

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In recent weeks, Pakistan has been hit by devastating floods that have affected 20 million people, killed up to 1,600 and left two million homeless.

The United Nations warned Monday that up to 3.5 million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and said it was bracing to deal with thousands of potential cholera cases.

At times like these, we’d like to point you towards the efforts of organisations like:

• The Australian Red Cross
• CARITAS Australia
• World Vision Australia
• Oxfam Australia
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• UNICEF Australia
• Plan Australia
• CBM Australia
• ADRA Australia
• Save the Children Australia
• Care Australia
• Oxfam New Zealand
• Save the Children New Zealand
• Red Cross New Zealand
• UNICEF New Zealand
• The Salvation Army
• UNHCR

Please give generously if you can.

Kate
Community Manager

To continuing improving your Yahoo!Xtra Answers experience we are introducing a few small changes this week…

Changing time to choose a Best Answer

Based on your feedback to be able to resolve a question quicker, we have now reduced the wait time to choose a best answer from 4 hours to 1 hour. If you now receive multiple responses within an hour you can select one of those as your Best Answer, or choose to put the question to vote at this earlier stage.

The full lifecycle of a question won’t change – questions will still be open for 4 days and up to maximum of 8 days if you extend the expiration. This change gives you the option to resolve earlier or put to vote earlier. If you take no action to resolve or extend the question, the question will automatically go to vote for the Best Answer.

Optional Preview screen when answering questions

Many of you have commented that to you’d prefer an answering experience without having to see your response on the Preview page first. We are now able to offer this…

If you are signed-in with your Answers account and have answered at least one question before then when submitting your answer you can choose to Submit your response immediately without going to the Preview page first. We’ve kept the Preview page too, so you can still see how your response will look before publishing it.

What makes Yahoo!Xtra Answers unique is the avid involvement of the community it is YOU that provides the content so continue to ask, answer and vote!

Every day we receive a lot of feedback through the blog and other communication channels. Some of the community’s discussed topics centers around the way to help you stay on top of your Yahoo!Xtra Answers activity wherever you are. We’ve put together some tips that will improve your connection with the community.

Let’s take a look…

Yahoo!Xtra Toolbar

Many of you may already be familiar with the Yahoo!Xtra Toolbar, which is a great way to make your surfing experience more efficient and streamlined by keeping all the information you need in a single click. If you haven’t yet experienced the benefits then download the Yahoo!Xtra Toolbar now and enhance your Internet experience by:

• Reducing the time needed to load various sites.
• Getting instant access to your Yahoo!Xtra account and other properties by just clicking a button.
• Getting instant access to Yahoo!Xtra’s powerful search engine.

Yahoo!Xtra Messenger

Some of you already share your Yahoo!Xtra Messenger ID to chat directly instead of sending messages. But do you know you can also follow the Answers activity through a plug-in on Y!X Messenger ?

Let’s see together how to do that…

1. Sign in Y!X Messenger with your Yahoo!Xtra ID.
2. Below your friend’s listing, you can click on a link “Add plug-ins”.
3. A pop-up window should appear. Find the Yahoo!Xtra Answers application and just click on the button “Add”.
4. Normally, the plug-in will appear just below your friend’s listing. Click on it to expand a window and see some interesting questions from Y!X Answers site.
5. You can click directly too on “Ask” button if you want to be redirected directly on Y!Xtra Answers.

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