I think that Local Guides have a great responsibility and a great power in order to help people.
I also think that a Local Guide that lives in a small and not very well known city just like me needs to do something to help the city and its inhabitants to promote it. I think that Google Maps is the easiest and most powerful place to do this. When I started, I did it just to share with people photos of some interesting places around where I live, then I started to answer to questions, to write reviews and post more and more photos of every place I visited, just beacause I liked the fact that lots of people watched my posts and that meant a lot to me, beacause I was helping lots of people. And finally I asked some of my friends to do the same. So I created a very little community of people I know in order to help other people that live around here to know something more about my places.