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Introduction:
Each day we’re seeing more and more Local Guides contributing videos on Maps, sharing their experiences so that others can get a much better appreciation and make better informed decisions about visiting the places they enjoy. This post is about such videos and more specifically, it’s about showcasing the “best” videos taken by Connect Local Guides from all over the world. In the absence of a better metric, we use the number of views that a video has gained as a measure of that video’s “quality” and we refer to the video having the most views as being our star video.
The post includes leaderboards for different Local Guide levels and in this way, whether you are a level 10 or a level 5 Local Guide, if you have contributed video on Maps, you can join in to showcase your star. and it’s simple to do. Simply hit this link or leave a message on this post and someone will help you.
So what can you learn from the Star Videos Leaderboards?
By sharing our video contributions and achievements we can learn a lot about how to improve the quality of our videos so that we can achieve even better outcomes in terms of the impact that they have on our communities. We have been doing this successfully with photos over many years and so we can do the same with videos so join in and let’s see if together we can learn what type of videos work “best” on Maps.
If you’re new here then you may not be aware that this post forms part of a series of leaderboard posts each covering different aspects of the Maps contributions made by Local Guides. To see an index to these different leaderboard posts and all posts associated with them, simply hit this link.
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With most of you living in the northern hemisphere and now into your “cooler” winter days and nights, here in Australia we’re into summer and in fact, I just read that Australia is currently the hottest country in the world, with some places here in Victoria hitting 46+C! The beach is the place to be (see cover image) but at the moment we’re temporarily living virtually in the heart of Melbourne where it’s 40C but feels like 48C.
The Australian Bureau of Metrology forecasts that heatwave conditions will continue in parts of Australia over the next few days. By the way, the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia was 53.1°C in Cloncurry on January 16, 1889. Can you beat that?