How To Navigate Our MIVEST Yahoo! Group

This post is designed to help you get around on our MIVEST Yahoo! Group pages and how to manage your personal settings for the group.

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Not Able To Access Group Links?

You must be signed into Yahoo! before you can access all the information available to our members.
If you are a member of our group, but you go to our Made In Vermont Etsy Street Team Yahoo! Group's Main Page and the left side bar looks like the below image, then you are not signed into Yahoo!. 

 To sign into Yahoo!, click on "Sign In" in the upper left corner of the page.

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On the MIVEST Yahoo! Groups Home Page you will see a list of links on the left hand side of the page.

Messages Section
The Messages section shows all of the emails that have been sent into the group.
Under the Messages Section is a subsection called Posts.  If you click on Posts you will be taken to a page where you can send a message to the group.

Files Section
This section is used by Moderators only.


Photos Section
Not used.

Links Section
Here you will find the link to our MIVEST "Members Only" Blog, a link to our MIVEST Public Blog, and a link to  VermontMadeteam Promo Links which will take you to the Etsy Forum where we have a forum thread where you can post about items in your shop.
There are also four folders in the links section: Members Etsy Shops, Members Blogs/Websites  and Members Facebook, Twitter, Myspace Pages. These folders are where members add their links.
I will use Members Etsy Shops as an example but all four of the folders work the same way.  If you click on the Members Etsy Shops  you will be taken to a page that shows the links to members' Etsy Shop.  All members should put their shop link here. On that page you will be able to add your Etsy Shop link by clicking on "add link" on the right hand side of the page. On this page simply fill out the information asked for and then click on the blue button that says "Add Link." 

If you have more than one Etsy Shop, add that shop separately.  Do the same thing to add your corresponding links to the other folders.

Database Sections
We currently are not using the database.


Polls Section
This is where you will find current polls and where you can sign up for them. If there are any polls going on, you will see "Open Polls" and below that "Poll Quetsion" and below that will be the poll question.  Click on the question it self to being taken to the page where you can vote on the question.



Members Section
This shows a list of all members, their email addresses and the date they joined the group.

Calendar Section
We currently are not using the calendar.


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Changing Your Group Settings
You must be signed into Yahoo! before you can change your settings for the group.
On the MIVEST Yahoo! Groups Home Page click on "My Groups" on the upper right hand side of the page.

This will take you to your "My Groups" page where you can edit your settings for this group.

This is where you can change your Email Preferences for the group.  You can select "Individual Emails," "Daily Digest," "Special Notices," and "No Mail."  Note: Your email preferences should not be set to "Special Notices" or "No Mail" except for short periods of time when absolutely necessary.
This is also where you can delete yourself from the group.