Monthly Archives: July 2008

Using Word of Mouth Marketing to get new members to your Groups?

How many of you find that positive word of mouth directly results in new members to your group? Are you doing anything specific to generate that word of mouth beyond running a fabulous group? Are there specific tactics that you … Continue reading

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Delays in processing Yahoo! Groups emails

We are currently experiencing delays in processing email to Yahoo! Groups. We have isolated the issue and are working to repair it, at which point email delivery should catch up. We apologize for the inconvenience. Best, Jami Groups Community Manager … Continue reading

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Subscribe to the RSS feed for the Groups blog

If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend that you subscribe to the RSS feed for the Groups blog to receive updated headlines when I post new content. You can do this by clicking the + My Yahoo! button … Continue reading

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Introducing…the Yahoo! Groups Team

Following my email from Monday, What’s in store for Yahoo! Groups, I thought it’d be a great time to introduce you to the dedicated and hard working team behind the Groups product (at least those we could pull out of … Continue reading

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What’s in store for Yahoo! Groups

Hi everyone; it has been some time since we’ve announced what we have planned for the Yahoo! Groups community, so I thought I’d outline our plans for the coming year. Over the past few months, the Groups Team has been … Continue reading

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New photos link not appearing on homepage

Update: 7/18 – This issue has been fully resolved. Please note that photos uploaded before we corrected the issue will not appear as “new photos”, but anything uploaded after we found resolution will. Thank you for your patience. We are … Continue reading

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Try out the new People Map Beta

While the majority of the Yahoo! Groups team is working on strengthening and improving the core Groups product (more on that to come soon), a small team of folks have been working on a new way to create features within … Continue reading

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Group Rankings

Several of you have asked how the order of groups is determined when someone searches (or browses) for a group within the Groups Search Directory, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to explain. The order is based on a … Continue reading

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