Another feature in the new version of Yahoo Mail is the Connection manager. Connections are contacts with privileged benefits. They’re the people you spend the most online time with and the people you are most about sharing information with.

Connections can view more information on each other’s profiles than is visible to the general public and can easily share information through updates.

Adding Connections

To be connected, the other person needs a profile on Yahoo!

You can invite anyone to connect with you, even those without a profile.

Those without a profile can create one and connect with you in a few easy steps.

1. Open the invite window from your profile or contacts page.

2. Click the Invite link near the bottom of the Connections area.

3. Click the Invite to Connect link (which only shows if the person’s details include an email address or a Messenger ID).

4. The Invite Others to Connect window opens.

If you’re inviting a specific person from your contact list, the To: box includes that person’s email address or Messenger ID.

5. Type one or more email addresses in the To: box separating each address with a comma, then

6. Click the SEND INVITE button.

(If the person exists in your Yahoo! Contacts and has an email address, you can also type the name.)

Your invitation is sent!

When people accept it, their names appear in the Connections area of your profile and in your Connections category in Yahoo! Contacts.

You can learn more over here: http://overview.mail.yahoo.com

One of the new features in Yahoo Mail is the contact manager. It’s similar to a paper or desktop address book but has a lot more features and functions such as categories and links to your connections.
Yahoo! Contacts is an online contact manager that helps you organize and communicate with the people in your life.

1. In Mail, click the Contacts link in the left pane.
2. While viewing your profile, click the Contacts tab.
3. The contacts page opens displaying all of your contacts.
4. From here, you can

a. Add contacts.
b. Connect with those closest to you.
c. Create categories so that you can organize your contacts.
d. Work with contact details.

You can learn more over here: http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/products/new

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Yahoo Tip – Shortcuts to move quickly through your inbox

Originally uploaded by Tech Writer Boy

How can I move to the next or previous message in a thread, that I’ve flagged,

haven’t read yet, or from a friend?

Can I do it with shortcut keys?

There are two ways to do this:

1. Click Ctrl + Shift + the up arrow on your keyboard, or

2. Click More Actions on the Yahoo! Mail toolbar, Extended Navigation and then Configure

2.1. When the Configure Extended Navigation window opens, choose if you want to use this shortcut to go from one message in a thread to the next, or skip from one to messages that have been Flagged, Unread, or from a specific person.

2.2. Click OK.

After you have set this up, you can move to the Next or Previous messages.

2.3 Use the Ctrl + Shift keys and the up or down arrows to go to the previous or next message in the sequence.

I don’t using the keyboard

Ok. Try this.

Go to the toolbar with your mouse and click More Actions, Extended

Navigation, and either Previous in Thread, Next in Thread, or Oldest Unread.
Nice time-saving tip if you use Yahoo mail.

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Ivan

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