The Caption for Star Media in the Top 100 System now appears in a different location, and appears in a pop-up message box after clicking ‘Submit.’ The message box features an emoji at the top, adding a friendly visual touch. This update makes the Caption display more user-friendly, and I’m very pleased with how it looks! Thank you to Connect Moderator @AdamGT for implementing this improvement.
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Additionally, the message box includes a prompt and a link to the ‘History Table’, making navigation even easier. The ‘Caption’ and ‘History Table’ can be easily copied and pasted in Star Albums on ‘Connect’.
Adding captions to images posted on Connect is an important feature but it has been difficult for some. It’s because of this that some avoid adding captions altogether or at best get it wrong.
The other thing that I think is important is that when you have a topic full of images, like the albums of star photos and star videos, it’s useful to have a consistent format not only for the images themselves but for the captions and the rest of the post content. It just makes the album easier to read and much more pleasurable to browse through.
It’s also important to recognise that to achieve all this requires guidelines and steps to follow. But these can be overwhelming to some to read, let alone follow. For example, it wasn’t long ago that @marcorp experienced and wrote about this in his ¡Lo logré! Mi Primer Video en el Top 100 Local Guides post.
The rewards are great but it requires some effort and it is because of this that the Leaderboard System incorporates some nice features like the auto-generation of captions designed to automate the process…just copy and paste, and as well as captions, there are some nice pro-features like well structured and formatted history tables that can also be copied and pasted straight into Connect. The latest enhancement that @PrasadVR discovered and posted about, shows how with one click a pro-user can jump from caption to the “table”.
Now instead of building your star post on Connect, imagine being able to do this on the Leaderboard System itself…add your content and star photo and/or star video image directly onto the Leaderboard System, it generates your post, click a button and the System seamlessly posts it for you on Connect, all formatted nicely (avoiding the frustrations faced by Local Guides like @curatorofmemory), no overwhelming guidelines to try to understand and follow, top of class posts on Connect showcasing the best Local Guide star photos and star videos. It’s all about simplicity, efficiency and quality, and together we can!
@AdamGT . You have always been so helpful in building up this community. For newbies like me you have been a great coach. I dedicate this quote by Jean Vanier to you- “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.”
Thank you @curatorofmemory, that’s very kind of you. I see Connect Local Guides as important ambassadors for the 150m+ Local Guides out there in the world and together we can show the others how best to do things and how to achieve the best outcomes in terms of personal contribution and impact on our respective communities.
I also noticed this, @PrasadVR, thanks for the concise review. I was curious if the emoji faces have any meaning. Do they change based on the quality of the Star Photo, perhaps? @AdamGT, any insight into the emoji selection?
