Celebrating creativity and diversity: Meet the Connect Live 2019 attendees

Connect Live 2019, the flagship event for Local Guides, was held in San Jose, CA. There, 200 top Google Maps contributors from 64 countries and regions met to connect, learn, and celebrate their accomplishments.

Local Guides came from places as far away as Manzini, Eswatini( @Mpumi ) andBloemfontein, South Africa( @MoniShennan ). Mpumi and Monique each traveled more than 10,500 miles to visit Google Headquarters. Three Connect Live attendees even shared that the trip was theirfirst-ever plane ride!

Local Guides applied for the all-expenses-paid opportunity of a lifetime by submitting a complete application, including the creation of a 1-minute video responding to the 2019 prompts:

  • Tell us about your favorite place and what makes it special.
  • What’s one thing you want everyone to know about your community?
  • Why are you proud to be a Local Guide?

This video was created to welcome the global group to an unforgettable four days in California. Here’s a look at how creative they got!

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Wonderful video @brittym , it brings back so beautiful memories by seeing back all LG friends who were there at Connect Live 2019. Indeed an amazing and unforgettable event.

Thank you, thank you, thank you :heart_eyes: .

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Thank you @brittym for sharing such a wonderful post and video. It’s surely a life time experience for CL’19 attendees. I can see in this video my friends are enjoying Thier happy and unforgettable moments. Congratulations to all who spend their awesome time with great hospitality of Team Google.

Shukriya :pray:

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Thanks for sharing @brittym . The video was awesome and it was great to see again so many people that now I can call friends. Thank you again for everything!

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I think the tittle is perfect @brittym : Creativity and Diversity :clap:t3: :clap:t3: :clap:t3:

Creativity because it’s a must here on localguidesconnect and Google Maps. We like to share our own content with our own photos our in our own style writing… every post or review is created by us. This way, our creativity levels increase; We don’t stop developing it.

Diverstity: localguidesconnect and Google Maps is conformed from LGs from all around the World, with different languages, cultures, styles of life, ages… and these enriches us and our knowledge levels increase because we don´t stop learning.

This is the raw material from which the 200 lucky LGs were chosen …

The video done by the LG Team is amazing, congratulations!

A big hug from the South of Spain,

ALejandra.

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It was really unforgettable experience!

Thank you so much @brittym !

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Wow keren

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Equal in diversity is the keyword of the whole community, @brittym .

The photo has been taken on an exhibition about migration and integration

It doesn’t matter where we are from, what really matter is what we do. In this, I agree with @AlejandraMaria , the creativity play a huge role. Be yourself, be original, show who you are.

Meet you, together with 200 wonderful and creative Local Guides was amazing. 200 wonderful individuals, and the possibility to learn from each other.

Thank you for this post.

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@brittym Brings back happy thoughts and great friendship for ConnectLive. Thanks for sharing this, and thanks to all the amazing people who were with us.

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@brittym this is so nice! Local Guides Connect, the best community ever!

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This a great event.@brittym’s.thanks for a lot for updating us.google map connect the world.am going to the event with google bicycle.let’s go.

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Ofcourse, the the San Jose Meet was a rare eventful for attendees so far as the sence of creatively for novel ideas, but non attenders of LGs from the world also thrilled as if they were there.

It gives us a pleasure to gratitude and an immense sense of respect for them .Because they represent us for one universe. Thanks @britten for this post.

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Amazing post @brittym

It was a great time at Connect Live 2019, still missing everyone.

Anyway thank you for sharing nice video for us.

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Hi @brittym it’s Amazing and grateful program sharing with us. thank you very much.

iT'S MEETUP TIME

Omar

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Thanks @brittym for sharing with us. :heart_eyes: :heart:

Hope you would like my, New Journey With New Achievements

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The best part of the year surely happens when CL is around :heart_eyes:

loved the video and miss all my friends already :confused:

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@brittym thank you so much for sharing the nice video of ‘Connect Live 2019’. The writing is very informative. Congratulations again my friends, brothers and sisters who have fulfilled their dreams by attending at such an enormous program. I have also enjoyed from away to see their enjoyments.

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@brittym thank you so much for sharing the nice video of ‘Connect Live 2019’. The writing is very informative. Congratulations again my friends, brothers and sisters who have fulfilled their dreams by attending at such an enormous program. I have also enjoyed from away to see their enjoyments.

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awesome events @brittym
wanna join next event

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Hi @brittym thank you for sharing this post, the local guides community is really about creativity and diversity. I am dying to meet these local guides, and I wouldn’t have known them if you did not share this post, I have never seen a post from them here. I would love to meet them, @Mpumi and @MoniShennan please send me a private message when you see this comment. Cheers!

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