My name is Dorcas and I love contributing on Google maps, it makes me happy .
I came across Local Guides Connect for the first time today and I’m excited to see others who share my excitement and fulfillment about contributing and helping others.
I have gone through the community posts and I am loving it already, although I am yet to introduce myself.
I see some Local Guides have linked their socials at the end of their post. I am big on socials and love to put myself out there. How do I link my socials at the end of my posts?
First of all, I’d welcome you and propose this article that will help you get familiar with the forum. You can also introduce yourself in our monthly section and meet others from the community.
As for your question, when you enter your Local Guides profile, you will see an option to edit it as per the screenshot below. On your settings, under tab ‘‘personal’’ there are a few sections. You must choose ‘‘personal information’’, where you will see a list of empty fields, where you can put some details that will show up on your profile publicly. Usually, Local Guides add their social media links in their signature. In this case it will show up under any comment or post that you publish in our community. You can check out this article for more details. Hope this was helpful!
P.S.: With the above said I am marking my comment as a solution. This means that if someone else has a similar doubt, the information can be found easier.
You are welcome! If you have additional questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
P.S.: I also wanted to let you know that you can tag Connect members. In this case they receive a notification and are able to view your comments right away. You can do it by putting the symbol “@” in front of the nickname.
In the article I sent you there is a video that is very detailed. You can see how to link in your comments/posts and at the end of the video (around min 6) you can see how to link your accounts in your signature.
If you want to link a word here on Connect, you must mark the word you want to add link to and use this tool as per my screenshot below:
Welcome to Connect.Am sure @EmekaUlor and @Sagir will have a great welcome for you. We have a great community of local guides in Nigeria. Am actually in Lagos and there are others in other cities in Nigeria as well. We look forward to more posts of great content from you.
There are no meetups at the moments I think but you can check from time to time if there is a virtual meetup on connect. You can always attend virtual ones online if there is a link. The physical meetups are abit rare for now because of Covid19. With time other Nigerian local guides will reply and you’ll be linked up.
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. Subscriptions to all social platforms with same Account or ID. Thank you, happy to connect you.