Recap: Global Virtual Knowledge Sharing meetup

[deepakjhic]

How to plan and Host a Virtual knowledge sharing meetup in less than 24 hrs.

Well, for me it was never tough to host a local guide meetup but that was in case of physical meetup only. :). I was planning to host a knowledge sharing meetup for the last two months and I had submitted one. That meetup got cancelled due to pandemic and later I decided to submit a virtual meetup for local guides from India. No, that was not a good time for me to host any meetup and due to some internal issues, it was cancelled by our connect team.

I was surprised after these two cancelled meetups and on 7 April again I decided to host one virtual meetup but this time I decided not to submit a meetup on the official page. Just created an event on Google meet and shared my idea with a few of my friends & co-host of this meetup from India and Belgium( @JMD9 @NareshDarji @AmbrishVarshney @TravellerG & @JanVanHaver from Belgium).

In just 2 hours we have finalised the meetup and confirmed the timing. This meetup was unknown to everyone in it’s hosting date too. On 8 April I decided to create a post for our communities and shared on different platforms. We got a huge response but most of them mentioned that it is a surprise meetup and they might not be able to make it.

In the meantime one our local fried from Indonesia shown interest and asked me to invite her local guides friends from her country. There was no reason behind saying no to her and she brings around 10 local guides from Indonesia in this meetup. Around 70 local guides from different countries joined us. There were more and more but I can mention a few of them here,

• Jan van Haver from Belgium
• Jeroen Mourik from Spain
• Devi, Doc, Brian, Neizuke, Sassana & Ripal from Indonesia
• Aqeel from Georgia
• Reazul from Bangladesh
• Safdar from South Africa
• Saqib from Dubai
• Uche from Nigeria
• An unknown call from the USA

Due to a long discussion, we missed many local guides to introduce themselves but yes they were posting in the comment section.

There were two sections of this meetup & everything gone smoothly.

1. Introduction session
2. Question & answer session

There were lots of questions and all attendees made both the sessions amazing.

A special thanks to JanVanHaver & @JeroenM for guiding, joining hands together & all the attendees.

Meetup album and few videos can be found here.

#letsguidetogether #TeamIndia #happyguiding

[deepakjhic]

@meghanajain @KishorMali @Shrut19 @BijohnAdams @LoveKaushik3 @AkhilParikh @JohnPeter @doc_dells @Kangadi @Ddimitra

Wow, I tried and found most of the username on connect. Thank you for joining us local guides.

[deepakjhic]

@Viksaini_89 @user_not_found @rajuroyal @yagokd @rohit_pv @TEJASJANI @Alphee @VickyKrish @IshantHP_ig @travelbyjp

[deepakjhic]

@Shruti_U @AjSingh @Raghu_K @NGUDAPE @bikashkhadge @FalguniP @RahulKumarB @SJasourH98 @TPattanaik

Hi @claudiaamanda we were waiting for your intro but it seems there was a mic issue with many other local guides. Lots of local guides were saying there was no mic button. I have no idea about meet but thanks a lot for joining us.

[deepakjhic]

@alanguage @Tejal @Neizuke @abduramshad @sunitaa @RahmatHarmanP @BikashSharma @UchechukwuEnem

I can’t find more usernames on connect. Gurdeep, karthik Jaganathan, shiv Yogi, Miftahul Iman, Bishnu ghosh, Dr. Rishi Muni Dwiwedi, Raj Patel, Kartik Garlapati,Pandya Jitendra, Yash Dangi, Rosy Kohli, Abhinav Ashokan, Abhishek Sarkar,Dhaval Siddhapura, Kesri Nandan, Preet Shreemali, Sourabh Setia, Sayali khnade & more.

As promised, I tried adding all username but these are the usernames I can find.

Maas Syobirin from Indonesia.

Thank you for joining us all. see you soon.

[NareshDarji]

It was a awesome virtual meetup @deepakjhic and great knowledge sharing discussion.

We very thankful to @JeroenM and @JanVanHaver for sharing great tips and useful information with us.

[TPattanaik]

@deepakjhic Wonderful meetup. Superb coordinations with all LGs from India and few other countries. Nice to see all of them in one platform…keep it up bro

[deepakjhic]

Thank you @TPattanaik @NareshDarji for your kind words.

[yagokd]

@deepakjhic

Very commendable effort. Thank you for the invite.

[Viksaini_89]

Thank you so much Dear @deepakjhic Brother for inviting me to join LG’s global virtual meetup.

It was a wonderful experience for me, where I got an opportunity to Learn new things from seniors and fellow LG’s and It was amazing thing to meet them virtually.

Thanks…

[Ajaypalsagar]

@deepakjhic This is great forum to talk and listening to the thoughts of others. Thanks.

[doc_dells]

Thanks @deepakjhic for tagging me, it was great virtual meet-up!

#stayhealthy

#staysafe

#stayathome

#stayconnected

Regards,

dells

[BikashSharma]

It was nice to be a one among the audience…

[deepakjhic]

@BikashSharma @doc_dells @Ajaypalsagar @Viksaini_89 @yagokd

Thank you very much for your kind words. Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

[AmbrishVarshney]

Thank you @deepakjhic for hosting that and love the Meetup keep it up

[abduramshad]

It was a awesome virtual meetup @deepakjhic

It was my first virtual meetup with Local Guides in different place.

Thank you guys for create such a opportunity

[JMD9]

Thanks @deepakjhic It was an awesome virtual meetup . and there were a good number of attendees . I felt happy while answering to the questions and very thankful to our core team members @AmbrishVarshney , @NareshDarji , @TravellerG .& Jan ven Haver ,Jeroen Mourik .

Regard

@JMD9

[Neizuke]

Thank you @deepakjhic for tagging me

[BijohnAdams]

@deepakjhic It was very worth to attend the meet-up. Thanks to all the LGs for sharing their valuable experiences. Expecting more meet-ups to attend in coming days.

With Regards

Bijohn

Assam, India

[Sandeepnirvan]

I missed this meet. Hope I will join the next meet