Guide For New Members On Local Guides Connect

Google Maps tips & tricks
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Hello and Welcome to some few guides to know what is happening around your community and communities all over the world.

  1. When you log into connect for the first time, try to click your location here as shown in the picture below to get access to what is happening around your community, i recommend this because you can find very interesting topics you might have missed in the past or present, turning on that feature would allow you see interesting topics from within your community

    Click The My location and get access to what is happening in your community. e.g your community is your location
    Click The My location and get access to what is happening in your community. e.g your community is your location1382×744 250 KB

  2. Secondly If you want to see other interesting topics from all over the world, you can go back to the My Location optioned i encircled below to also turn the feature on and see interesting topics from different parts of the continents.

    Click the all location as I have encircled above to get access to what is happening around different communities around the world
    Click the all location as I have encircled above to get access to what is happening around different communities around the world1238×683 377 KB

  3. If you are a new Local Guide on connect, don’t be quick to post anything, first explore the forum firstly, after exploring the forum and you have known how the forum works i suggest you can now post. Your first post should actually be your Introduction(its a suggestion). Every new month there is always a thread for Introduction, so if you are a newbie, trying searching for the month you registered in to be part of connect. For example if you registered this May try searching for Introduce Yourself May You will find below the encircled search option of how to do that.

    Click on the search option to search for anything you might be looking for in the forum. an example is there
    Click on the search option to search for anything you might be looking for in the forum. an example is there1382×744 183 KB

  4. After Introducing yourself you can now always post to different boards across the platform.You can find below screenshots of different boards you can see eye catching topics and posts you too can actually make.

    Click connect with other local guides to see access to various boards and sections in connect
    Click connect with other local guides to see access to various boards and sections in connect530×338 17 KB
    after you click the connect with other local guides you would see the different places were you can contribute and also see interesting post made by other fellow local guides
    after you click the connect with other local guides you would see the different places were you can contribute and also see interesting post made by other fellow local guides886×686 41.3 KB

  5. I believe after following this few steps, from a newbie on connect you can be an expert. :D. and also these are guides you can be sure to see great tips from the Google moderators here on number 6 :

  6. Tips Using Local Guides Connect

  7. And also don’t forget to use the @ mention button to reply to a local guide you might be making a reference to. You can also use the @ button to mention all google moderators and everyone here on connect when facing a problem and need a solution to it. In order ways the @ button is a call upon button.

    I hope this helps article helps you to get the best out of Connect,

    Best Regards and Happy Guiding

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Nice starting guide @HelloSamsonR !

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@LucioV Thanks bro :slight_smile:

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Really nice and helpful post for newbie’s @HelloSamsonR

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Thanks @deepak_bhalla I sincerely appreciate your commendation.

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Good suggestion.

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@prasunkumarb Thank you.

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Congratulations @HelloSamsonR for your very helpful post.

This is the kind of post i like, to help the newcomers for the first steps in Connect.

I think @TraciC will love it

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Great work @HelloSamsonR to give both newcomers and experienced LGC users a visual indication of how to explore the forums. I know not many people would like to read a wall of numbered lists and text but having new pictures always helps! Maybe a video might help hehehe!

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@ErmesT Thank you very much, am very happy you liked it sir.

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@Briggs Thanks for Feedback bro, concerning the video, I thought of that but after serious thought i felt some people might not want to waste too much data watching a video and some might not have Youtube accounts so i decided to use pictures for easy representation, so even if you don’t want to waste much time reading, you can actually view the pictures as a guide.

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@HelloSamsonR nice post bro.

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Keep :smiling_face:

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@deepakjhic Thanks, Am glad you like it.

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Thanks for creating and sharing, @HelloSamsonR . We definitely have some information in various areas of Connect for getting started but are working on making it more discoverable and easier for new members. Your post is super helpful!!!

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@TraciC Thanks am glad you liked it. :blush::blush::blush:

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@OSAMA @U-royFelixA @NarenChandra @AkmalB @mhjn you are also welcome to learn, criticize or also share your thoughts :blush::blush::blush::blush:?.

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@HelloSamsonR I strongly suggest you go to bed :joy:

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:joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:

@U-royFelixA wrote:

@HelloSamsonR I strongly suggest you go to bed :joy:

@U-royFelixA I am going :joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:. But let me hear your opinion first :joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:. You are welcome here also to criticize :joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:

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@HelloSamsonR this is super cool man . This will help .

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Thank you @TraciC Did you get my message on IG? I’m in NYC. Will Monday be a good day to visit you guys?

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