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    Meet the New Shine!

    By Brenda Law, Shine Community Manager | Community – Wed, Nov 9, 2011 1:40 AM EST

    Shine has been upgraded with a sleek new look, more categories, and lots of fun new modules like our new Pets Channel, Work + Money, Shine At Home and the new My Shine tab. But here's the best part -- our new blogging platform is now powered by Yahoo! Contributor Network.

    Here's what these improvements and changes mean to you:

    - Blogging templates with updated designs and a cleaner interface



    - Separate slideshow templates and an image gallery you can use to store your favorite pictures for later use.


    - Updated blog menus for previewing, editing, and deleting your blog posts, with filtering and data exporting capabilities.

     

    You'll be able to create original Shine blog posts just as before and enjoy all these new features once you  activate your Yahoo! Contributor Network account. Other advantages of your new account: You can create content for many different Yahoo! websites (like Yahoo! News, Sports, and Finance), all of which will appear on your contributor profile page. You can even claim special writing assignments for Shine!


    To learn more about Yahoo! Contributor Network and all of these new features, check out our special Frequently Asked Questions page.


    Here's how to activate your Yahoo! Contributor Network account:

     

    • Click on any of the links under My Shine
    • Sign in using your existing Yahoo! ID and password
    • Confirm the name you want to blog under
    • Check the box to agree to Yahoo! Contributor Network's Terms of Service.
    • That's it. You're ready to start blogging! Click the My Shine tab anytime you want to create a new post.

    We'll be trouble-shooting and addressing concerns and addressing concerns on this blog post so leave your comment below. We'll also use this post to alert you to any site hiccups as well as offer tips on our new blogging tools so check back regularly!


    Finally, thanks for all your support these past three years. The contributions you've made and the conversations you've engaged in have made Shine not only one of the top women's lifestyle destinations on the Web, but also a place to make friends, seek support, and share everyday advice. We can't wait to read what you'll be posting next!


    Best,

    Brenda + The Shine team

     
    • Harley
      Harley  •  9 days ago
      Shine sucks. It was so easy and fun when it first began...only change it needed was a "remove comment" button. Now it's a huge confusing mess.
      • Snow Bunny-Rebel
        Snow Bunny-Rebel 9 days ago
        A little tweak here, a little tweak there. That's mostly what Shine needed. Instead, we got this unreadable, unusable mess.
    • Alex
      Alex  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  17 days ago
      So where the hell IS everything? You should NOT just have the old links be dead. Using your search engine sucks, it shows me everything on every other site. I want to find the content I came here for.
    • Pampeachie
      Pampeachie  •  Cicero, Illinois  •  24 days ago
      BRING BACK THAT LOVE AND SEX COLUMN I dont like the newer shine.. I want love n sex.. back!
    • wendy
      wendy  •  17 days ago
      dont like this New Shine at all, wont open horoscopes, says error, wont open many other tabs either, wth?? i want the old one back !!
      • Lisa Fuchs
        Lisa Fuchs 17 days ago
        i agree i want my other one back for entertainment
      • PennyB
        PennyB 17 days ago
        Hope these problems are just growing pains...
      • Daylon
        Daylon 11 days ago
        WQW what the .....
    • Elizabeth
      Elizabeth  •  San Francisco, California  •  17 days ago
      no wonder you guys are going out of business!
      only thing in shine I used was astrology and it's gone!
      maybe you could have asked those of us who have hung in there with you what we wanted
      just a thought
      you are in a serious bubble!
    • jason
      jason  •  Fresno, California  •  10 days ago
      i hooked my yahoo UP itz hella tight yall
    • Miss Emma Mae
      Miss Emma Mae  •  28 days ago
      Lord I Hope This Day Is Good lyrics

      Lord I hope day is good
      I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
      I should be thankful Lord I know I should
      But Lord I hope this day is good

      Lord have you forgotten me
      I've been prayin' to you faithfully
      I should be thankful Lord you know I am
      But Lord I hope this day is good

      I don't need fortune and I don't need fame
      Send down the thunder Lord, send down the rain
      But when you're planning just how it will be
      Plan a good day for me

      Lord I hope day is good
      I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
      I should be thankful Lord I know I should
      But Lord I hope this day is good

      You've been the King since the dawn of time
      All that I'm askin' is a little less crime
      It might be hard for the devil to do
      But it would be easy for you

      Lord I hope day is good
      I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
      I should be thankful Lord I know I should
      But Lord I hope this day is good
      • Miho
        Miho 16 days ago
        Tony Sinacore Rots
    • Cherokee
      Cherokee  •  Mission Viejo, California  •  1 month 2 days ago
      UGGG
    • Vegas Yoda
      Vegas Yoda  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  28 days ago
      I have 100 articles on Yahoo voices,news and sports. How can I submit articles that go to Shine?
      • Miss Emma Mae
        Miss Emma Mae 28 days ago
        Upper right hand corner is a drop down menu, default is Yahoo Contributer network, click on it and Yahoo Shine is under it.

        Nice to meet you VY. Shine is a great place, one of my favs. Hope you enjoy it too.
      • DorothyP
        DorothyP 9 days ago
        Ok sometimes, great sometimes , but i luvd the red table.
    • Andrea S
      Andrea S  •  North Bergen, New Jersey  •  1 month 8 days ago
      Come to think of it, the USERS should have had a say in the format change, no...we should have voted yea or nay...so much for "power to the people" lol
    • Snow Bunny-Rebel
      Snow Bunny-Rebel  •  Abbyville, Kansas  •  1 month 19 days ago
      I just read where Mitch Abrom ("Tuesdays With Maury") got an evicted 101 year old woman back into her home. I keep checking back here to see if something like that will happen to those of us who were evicted by Shine's new & improved fiasco. So far, all I see is what seems to be a competition with TMZ and The National Enquirer.
    • Habanero♥™
      Habanero♥™  •  Bristol, Connecticut  •  1 month 22 days ago
      Shine is just not fun!
      • Brenda, Community Manager
        Y! Shine Staff Brenda, Community Manager 1 month 18 days ago
        Hi Hab. Thanks for stopping by. We're trying to liven things up with ideas like our Shine Birthday Cake Contest that happened last week. We were amazed and impressed by the entries - especially as baking and decorating a cake takes some serious time and energy! Here is the latest feature update: The Product team just brought back number of comments to the blog rolls and that should help with the conversation. Also, the Comments team is working on a new feature that will allow you to see all the comments you've ever made on Shine and revisit those articles you participated on. This is one step closer in helping our users find one another again. Thanks!
      • Snow Bunny
        Snow Bunny 1 month 10 days ago
        Are there any users left to find? Even Serenity seems to have given up.
      • JerryY
        JerryY 1 month 9 days ago
        That's it? After over 5 months you're addressing comments? Seems like too little, too late. Also, the quality of the articles by "professionals" has dropped significantly. The topics are boring and juvenile and the writing is amateurish.
    • Evangeline Fidelia
      Evangeline Fidelia  •  1 month 5 days ago
      bbbb
    • marshhawk
      marshhawk  •  1 month 19 days ago
      If it was not broke, do not fix it.
    • Curtis
      Curtis  •  New York, New York  •  1 month 9 days ago
      Hey I like this blog thing, you know like anything, everything depends on your creativity, so I will be looking out for things that are positive and upbuilding, and maybe even a little bit sultry but until then wont you guys check out thesuccessor1 on youtube and leave a comment and click like or not see you soon much Love
    • BlondeBabe
      BlondeBabe  •  Miami, Florida  •  2 months ago
      I'm very confused-what is today's blog? Maybe I'm just stupid but I can't
      grasp it today. Is it only me?
    • ljubomirbibic
      ljubomirbibic  •  Oxford, United Kingdom  •  1 month 27 days ago
      need halp emedetly
    • Froggy
      Froggy  •  3 months ago
      Same @#$%, different bull.
    • k8blujay
      k8blujay  •  2 months ago
      Hey Brenda! What have you been up to and what's going on with Shine... any new workings we should be aware of... ;-)

      Oh and I officially dislike it very much when a blog post gets posted on the main yahoo page... it seems like it calls all the stupid people in...
    • Diane
      Diane  •  2 months ago
      Alabaster, AL
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