MyKnet.org

Good morning Philipp ... Yesterday I was working on a KNEWS story about the new canoe atlas that my brother-in-law completed is now getting published. On my homepage at http://brianbeaton.myknet.org I have been keeping track of the various wilderness canoe trips that I have taken with Tom. I realized I had not updated my page in some time so I ended up spending a couple of hours uploading pictures from our canoe trip from last summer and updating my page. It was fun to review some of the older photo albums and to recall these different trips over the years.

Brian

My Knet.org is a great communication tool (replaces smoke signals, lol ) for the Sioux Lookout area as the majority of the northern reserves around us  are isolated. They are fly-in communities and phones, faxes, etc  are sometimes unreliable, but with the computer as a communication tool, is very useful, with their email service as well. I have seen the usefulness & potential of the MyKnet.org usage in Sioux Lookout & surrounding communities. It helps people, families, friends, communities  stay in close contact with each other. The users of this on-line sharing space find that they can provide news of themselves, families, their communities, the happenings in each of their reserves, provide information, entertainment & fun. I use MyKnet.org to share stories of myself growing up in residential school, high school and living the traditional lifestyle as well thereafter. And of course personal stuff about myself & family. I usually post up pictures of my home reserve (Bearskin Lake) and the town of Sioux Lookout where I presently live & work. I post pictures of hunters festivals, Christmas activities, hockey games, camping, hunting, jamborees, traveling, family, special interests, etc. I share my daily happenings, share ideas, motivations, jokes, to try to keep my home page exciting and fresh (which is usually a task in itself), and of course music. You can post music codes on my page. There are certain people from my home reserve that have homepages so I usually browse their pages to keep tabs on my community, like the recent elections they just had, I got a chance to vote as a result. My wife, daughter (14) and son (13) use KNet as well to basically post their daily logs, music, pictures, etc, so the youth are the main people using this space as the older folks are new to this, but the youth pick on it real quickly. It helps them keep in touch with their friends, keeps them busy and have fun chatting. But sometimes its used the wrong way too, like dissing others on there, making negative comments and gossiping about others, getting back at someone, but theres a process in place to report such inappropriate contents. But overall, parents monitor their kids activities and they can also report to Knet if there are homepages  theyre concerned about and Knet does  respond and take action to  them off the system and warn them of their contents & suspension. My family & I are happy with MyKnet.org and look forward to using it more. The only set back is theres a daily quota allotted to each page and I do get disabled now & them, from using too much band-width, but I still like it. Its great.

 I've been with Myknet for about 4 years and it's been a great experience. Myknet provides me to upload pictures, graphics, music, html, almost anything!. Myknet is a place of communication and making friends. You can post anything into your homepage such as photos, music, graphics, slideshows, videos, and of course a cbox. I'm happy with Myknet.org and Knet.ca. Thanks for your time

- Travis Winter