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COMMUNITIES
In the Communities section, SuuntoSports.com users can form and manage their own
groups or search for other groups. For example, you can create a group for all your sailor
friends, and share information about each other's results, give advice and discuss, where
and when you could go for a sailing trip together. Groups can be either open or closed.
Closed groups mean that you have to apply for membership and be accepted before you
can participate in group activities.
All groups have a home page that displays information about group events and includes
sections for news, notice board and other information. Group members can also use
group-specific bulletin boards, chat rooms and group calendars, and add links and create
group activities. All registered SuuntoSports users are automatically members of the
World of SuuntoSports community.
All logs can be viewed with track visualizer where the different participants of a community
may observe their sailed tracks on a single chart.
SPORT-SPECIFIC PAGES
SuuntoSports.com has its own forum for each Suunto sport. The basic features and
functions are the same for all sport forums - sport-specific news, bulletin boards and chat
rooms. Users can also suggest links to sports-related sites and tips regarding the sport and
equipment to be published on the site. They can also publish their own travel reports.
Sport forums include presentations of the sport-related resorts. Users can rank the resorts
and comment on them, and the results are published next to the resort information. You
can also create ranking lists for other things - for example, where is the highest peak, what
group has most members, who has uploaded most logs, and so on.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Start your Internet connection and move to www.suuntosports.com. When the start page
opens, click on the Register-symbol and register yourself and your Suunto M9. You can
update your personal MySuunto profile at this stage or you can do it later.
After you have registered, you are automatically transferred to the SuuntoSports.com
homepage, which presents the structure of the pages and the principle of operation.
Note: SuuntoSports.com is developed continuously and therefore the contents may change.
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