We are seeing more and more New Zealand users on Yahoo!Xtra Answers every day - which is fantastic! - so we wanted to give everyone, especially the newcomers, a few tips about how to get better answers for your important questions.

To those of you who are new to Answers, you might be surprised to find your questions are being answered from people all over the world. That can be a good thing - bringing people together from all corners of the globe and all walks

It's great to see so many of you joining the Answers community and posting questions. One thing that makes Answers more fun is to have an avatar to represent you, instead of the not-terribly-exciting shadow head.

Welcome to the Yahoo!Xtra Answers blog. By now, some of you might have already become addicted to Answers through joining the global Yahoo! community. However, now New Zealand has an Answers site all for itself! You can still access all the