Some of our favorite recent virtual meet-up recaps

Local Guides host amazing virtual meet-ups all around the world, and they share recaps of their experiences on Connect. Let’s take a look at some of our favorite recent recaps.

Food and drink

[RECAP] Virtual Meet-up Foodie Local Guides Talk Part 4

@Velvel 's foodie meet-ups attract Local Guides with a passion for food. This time, the host and participants showcased their most viewed and most favorite food and drink photos on Google Maps. From curly fries to biryani rice and chocolate desserts,her recap will have you reaching for the takeout menu of your local restaurant. If you’re looking for place recommendations, you can find them in the recap, too!

[RECAP] West-African dishes virtual taste meet-up

It’s easy to see how excited @SholaIB was for his virtual meet-up from the recap. During the event, Local Guides not only talked about the importance of healthy food but also showed each other how to prepare three West-African dishes. You can find the delicious recipes linked inhis recap to try and make them at home.

Bringing communities together

[RECAP] Cumpleaños Argentina Local Guides

The Argentina Local Guides recently celebrated the birthday of their community with a big virtual event. @Cecilita shared a recap full of important milestones, exciting announcements, and entertaining games that the Local Guides played together. In it, you will also find the smiling faces of over 40 participants and several fun videos, so don’t miss it.

{Recap} Four Years Of Connect - A Global Meet-up with Beautiful Memories

This year, we saw many great posts and meet-ups dedicated to Connect’s fourth birthday. @KashifMisidia and @JaneBurunina took Local Guides on a trip down memory lane intheir celebratory meet-up. They showed images of how Connect used to look like before, popular posts from previous years celebrations, and talked about Connect Moderators and even Maps edits!

Recap #FiestaMexicana

#TeamTacos organized a wonderful virtual celebration of Mexico’s history, traditions, food, and music. In the recap, @Ale_003 shared many of the interesting things they talked about, which she thoughtfully divided into several categories. If you want to learn about how Mexico gained its independence, what typical costumes look like, or what ingredients hide in their traditional dishes, make sure to read the recap.

[Recap] Virtual Mid-Autumn Festival Meet-up

@StephenAbraham ’s meet-up brought together Local Guides from three continents. They talked about what the Mid-Autumn Festival meant to them while doing one of the things Local Guides do best: eat snacks! In this case, they showed off the special mooncakes they prepared or bought for the event. Stephen also demonstrated how to make festival lanterns from scratch. Find out more interesting details inthe recap.

Accessibility

Caption: A GIF of photos showing the Local Guides who participated in @Ewaade_3A’s virtual accessibility meet-up. (Local Guide @Ewaade_3A)

BANUSO - RECAP OF THE MULTINATIONAL ACCESSIBILITY CONCERT (Unbothered-22)

Local Guides from different corners of the world joined @Ewaade_3A for a three-and-a-half-hour virtual event that focused on identifying ways in which they could help people with disabilities through their contributions and beyond. Inher recap, you will find the main learning points and a list of accessible locations around the globe.

Global concerns

The Big Picture; Focusing on the Big Picture meet-up RECAP

2020 brought a lot of unexpected changes for many of us. @AlphaSays hosted a meet-up that gave Local Guides the opportunity to express their thoughts on some of the major events of the year, like the Black Lives Matter movement, women empowerment, inclusivity, COVID-19, mental health, and more. Inhis recap, you can find many great resources and helpful advice.

Recap: E waste & it’s solution

A strong advocate for the environment, @Tejal organized an event to talk about the importance of handling electronic waste correctly. She did research in her community on how aware people are of the impact of e-waste and the challenges of its collection. During the meet-up, she and her guest speakers shared some crucial information and advice, which you can find inher recap.

Did you attend any of these virtual meet-ups? What’s your favorite recap? Tell us in the comments below.

Interested in being featured? Submit your recaps on Local Guides Connect, for a chance to have your recap featured. No need to tag a Google Moderator; we review all recaps published on Connect regularly.

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@DeniGu so many amazing meet-ups. We have such an amazing community. Thanks for the kind mention. :blush:

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Thank you so much for featuring my Foodie Local Guides Talk recap as one of the favorite @DeniGu

I’m happy to see that there are more and more good initiative from my fellow Local Guides who start to host virtual meet-up with lots of interesting topics :smiley:

Congratulations for the others that are being featured as well :tada: :tada:

Well done!

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Amazing ideas, Amazing meetups, by amazing LGs. Congratulations all the hosts who are featuring here :confetti_ball:

@DeniGu thanks for collating this for us.

Cheers…!!!

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Congratulations to all LGs for successful meet-up and for featuring here in the list.

E-waste meet-up which was hosted by @Tejal is amazing concept. Due to some problems I couldn’t able to join. Next time I’ll try my best.

Thanks @DeniGu for sharing with us the list.

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Great meet ups :smiling_face: A lot to learn and share in this wonderful community :two_hearts: . Thanks for the tag @DeniGu

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Wow @DeniGu

Thank you for mentioning my meetup. Am quite happy as it was my first and only one since. I have been too busy with work. Really wished I can get round to organising another one again.

Congratulations to other LGs who are mentioned here too

@Ale_003

@Ewaade_3A

@Velvel

Happy guiding and compliments of the season.

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Wow… so many amazing meet ups…

Thanks for this great recap of recaps @DeniGu

Kind regards

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** @DeniGu **

Namaskar…

Thanks for Sharing amazing hosting by some of my dear LGs

** @Velvel **

@Shola4sure

@CeciliaRatto

@Kashifmisidia and @JaneBurunina

** @Ale_003 **

** @StephenAbraham **

** @Ewaade_3A **

** @AlphaSays **

** @Tejal **

Yes ofcourse which some I attended that my favourite…

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wow so many meet down the memory lane @DeniGu thanks for sharing could reconnect @Velvel @StephenAbraham @Tejal ben @Ewaade_3A just to name a few could remember the face of attendee @RosyKohli @AjitThite @Shrut19@Guruprakash @TravellerG @FalguniP and many more those are flash back memories the intellectual intraction from @Sagir bhai the active @Nareshbhai @Shola4sure and muh much more

the accessiblity flavor by @JaneBurunina and @Kashifmisidia our @PritishB initiator all are Go getter

look like a festival getting all celebrity together

yes i couldnot attend all the meet up However all the meet up was awesome and involved and gather participant however since you are asking openion very difficult to judge as domain was diffrent beyond comparaible still i am sharing honest openion

yes i like environment and global warming concern plastic e waste from @Tejal ben got involve the indian croud impacted

my heartiest congratulation to all the host and active participant

regards

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Ahahah @DeniGu see who has the ‘keenest eyes’ ever :ok_hand: :blush:

Good job :clap:

May our community move beyond these features on Connect to the feature of hearts where we remain life-long friends with a common goal and heritage.

Long live the Local Guides community.

Cheers :clinking_glasses:

Kudos to the Amazing Moderators and the Google Team…

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Thank you @Shrut19 very kind words from you. Appreciate all your supports and motivations in this

Cheers

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Hello @Anil6969

Thank you for the nice words and inspirations

Cheers

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Great meetups. Thanks for sharing with us @SholaIB

Congratulations @Tejal

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Wonderful Meetup’s @DeniGu

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You are welcome @NareshDarji . I can still remember the meetup clearly. We had real fun. We were all wishing it was a real meetup, the meal would have been very nice.

Thank you for checking it out.

Cheers

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@DeniGu

Thank you for selecting my meet up . it’s give me pleasure. and yes people are also very happy who had attended meet up in my town few people are thinking about keep E waste bin as we don’t have here .hope for the best.

Regards Tejal

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WOW!!! Thank you @DeniGu for this post, it’s like a happy surprise to see our meet-up in favorite Virtual Meet-up recaps.

Many congratulations to @Velvel @SholaIB @Cecilita @Ale_003

@StephenAbraham @Tejal @Ewaade_3A @AlphaSays as well.

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Hi @KashifMisidia

Thank you for the congratulations. You are right, a very pleasant surprise to see mine anyway. It’s months gone by now so I’ve given up any hope of it to be featured. A pity I haven’t been able to organize anymore. I plan to, but work and life has begun here in full so we’ll see how it goes. I enjoyed that meetup anyway.

Congratulations to you as well and happy guiding.

Cheers

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Thank you @KashifMisidia :blush:

congrats too :clap:t2:

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