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Countdown to Connect Live: Let’s look back

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With just 21 days until Connect Live, I thought it would be fun to look back at our previous events for new members of our community or those excited to relive past years.

 

Before I share some of my favorite memories, it’s important to start with what Connect Live is: it’s a global event to bring together and celebrate top contributors from our Local Guides community. While attendees represent all kinds of backgrounds and interests, each attendee was selected from thousands of applications, is Level 5+ on Google Maps, and is active in the Local Guides program. Being active in the Local Guides program can include contributing regularly on Google Maps, being active in their local areas by hosting meet-ups, or being extra helpful right here on Connect.

 

Caption: A photo of a group of Local Guides on a giant chair smiling and gesturing at the camera during the Local Guides Summit in 2016.Caption: A photo of a group of Local Guides on a giant chair smiling and gesturing at the camera during the Local Guides Summit in 2016.

 In 2016, we held our first-ever Local Guides Summit with 75 Local Guides from 37 different countries.

 

The clear highlight from this year was that it was our first-ever global event. The energy in the room that first evening of our Welcome Reception was palpable; Local Guides were hyped and if you thought that energy went down throughout the Summit, you’d be wrong! Alumni from this event still talk daily via Google Hangouts and affectionately call themselves “The 75.”


Take a look back by checking out #lgsummit16 on social media or by viewing our official event album.

 

Caption: A group photo of the Local Guides Summit 2017 attendees holding up flags and signs from their home countries.Caption: A group photo of the Local Guides Summit 2017 attendees holding up flags and signs from their home countries.

In 2017, we hosted our second Local Guides Summit (#lgsummit17) with 151 Local Guides from 50 different countries.

 

One of my favorite things about this event was that we had an opportunity to give attendees more free time to explore San Francisco before our closing party. This meant Local Guides explored the Presidio or San Francisco on their own with a trusty BART pass. Attendees have nicknamed the 2017 event the “Best Summit Ever.”

 

Take a look back by checking out #lgsummit17 on social media or by viewing our official event album or recap video on YouTube. Watching it still gives me chills!

 

 

This year, we’re expecting 151 attendees from 59 different countries. This event will be different than ever before, and programming will offer even more opportunities for Local Guides to connect with one another, and the Googlers who work on their favorite features. That’s why we’re calling it Connect Live.


I don’t want to share too much but we have a lot of exciting things planned for this year’s event  both for attendees and those of you following along at home, so be sure to keep an eye right here on Connect as well as on social media using #localguidesconnect. There are 151 folks who are pumped to share their experiences with you, as well as 60+ Googlers who will be sharing their memories (including me, of course!).


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196 Comments
Level 8

Felicitaciones a todos las Guías locales seleccionados

Saludos desde España

Level 9

 Google maps explores new and exciting opportunity to access all the social categories and levels of society.google maps What's App nos and help line numbers plz. to all contributors to excel google maps revolution.

SKPattnaik
Connect Moderator

Great news @TraciC.

Best wishes for all of my worldwide friends and those are from Bangladesh.

Happy Guiding !!!!

Level 5

Luar biasa saya juga ingin bergabung dalam acara ini.

Level 4

Wow where can i see the list of participants? 😃 

Level 10

Waiting to meet you and all LG Friends at SFO.

Looking forward

@TraciC

Level 8

@TraciC it's a great news,

Best of luck for all local guides around the world specially who is going from India, have a great time.

Bengaluru Local Guide
Level 7

Congratulations For selected Friends. Hope in next Event i shall be selected from pakistan 

Level 8

Congratulations all of you!

Level 6

Wow, Congratulations to all participants and it's good news for get together with world wide local guilder. i hope in 2018 i have to be get invitation ♥♪Be happy always and keep smile always. thanks google and Traci's for special programs

Congratulation to my friend راضي الشمري congratulation to all my friends from other countries 😍🤗😚
@localguidesegypt #localguidesegypt
@letsguide #letsguide
@connectlive #connectlive
***proud to be a local guide***

Have a lovely day, wherever you are!
Level 8

@TraciC I wish to be attendee of Connect live next year. Thanks for sharing this post. 

Level 4

Congratulations to all Selected Local Guides, I an sure this is gone be a lovely event and a wonderful experience for all attending. All the Best.

Level 10

Hi @TraciC,

 

Thanks a lot for sharing all these beautiful moments. As we can see everybody has big smiles on their faces. It gives us a good taste of the type of event organised by the Local Guides Team.

I am looking forward to be part of this year event.

 

See you soon

 

jul

Level 10

Congratulations to all 151 selected local guides and @TraciC thanks for sharing with us.

Level 9

Congratulations  to all the selected LG's..

 

Excited to see you all in CL2018 😊😊

Level 9

Congratulations to fellow local guides that will meet. I am sure will be a lot of fun. Nice pic @TraciC. @ enjoy. Keep us posted. 

Level 1

Whooooopie do 😊

Connect Moderator

Best Summit Ever!!Best Summit Ever!!

Connect Moderator

I really miss connect live 18 

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Level 10

Congratulations to all selected Local Guides! All the best to Team, to make the event best of the best!

Level 7

Congratulations. You're doing a great job. 

Level 8

oh!!! thanks @TraciC & Google team!!!!

 

New friends, new adventures!!! I´m really happy and proud to be part of this event!!! Proud of this amazing and huge community!!

 

I'll share all that I can with the community on my social media with the HT #localguidesconnect and #letsguide

You can search me in every single platform with my nick name @imperiospice

See u in SF!!!!

#TeamMexico 

 

In love of Mexico City
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Keep us posted @TraciC.

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Level 10

Congratulations to all selected participants. This surely will be an unforgettable experience in your lives!  I will be curious to read from you once you are back how it all was and what new things you have learned.

Don´t forget to take pictures for those of us who will stay at home !!!! 

Level 9

very very nice post @TraciC 🙂

waiting to see 2018 great photos and videos 🙂

and wish to join 2019 😄

Level 10

 countdown

Level 7
Seran las experiencias de la vida gracias google , vamos organizando una pero que la sede sea aqui en puerto vallarta mexico*;
Level 8

Congratulations to all the selected ones.

Level 7

So I hope the next year can join and summit with all.

Level 1

انتم رائعين جداااا

Level 1

انا مرشد محلي جديد يسعدني لقاءكم
انا من العراق 

Level 9

أهلا بك أخي @cupbon

تعرف على البرنامج

النقاط والمستويات ووضع الشارات

نقاط المرشدين المحليين

يمكنك اكتساب النقاط من خلال المساهمة بالمحتوى على خرائط Google. يمكنك تقييم مكان ما باستخدام التقييمات، أو وصف تجربة من خلال التعليقات، أو مشاركة الصور الفوتوغرافية ومقاطع الفيديو، أو تقديم معلومات مفيدة تحتوي على إجابات، أو الإجابة عن أسئلة حول مكان ما، أو تحديث المعلومات باستخدام تعديلات المكان، أو إضافة أماكن غير موجودة، أو التحقق من المعلومات من خلال التحقق من صحة الحقائق.

المساهمة في خرائط Googleالنقاط التي يتم ربحها

التعليق 10 نقاط لكل تعليق
التعليق بأكثر من 200 حرف 10 نقاط إضافية لكل تعليق
التقييم نقطة واحدة لكل تقييم
الصورة 5 نقاط لكل صورة
الفيديو 7 نقاط لكل فيديو
الإجابة نقطة واحدة لكل إجابة
الرّد على الأسئلة والأجوبة 3 نقاط لكل إجابة
التعديل 5 نقاط لكل تعديل
المكان الذي تتم إضافته 15 نقطة لكل مكان تتم إضافته
التحقق من صحة المعلومات نقطة واحدة لكل خبر تم التحقق منه

مستويات المرشدين المحليّين

حقق مستويات أعلى كلما اكتسبت نقاطًا مقابل مساهماتك.

المستوىالنقاطالشارة

المستوى 1 0 نقطة لا تتوفر شارة
المستوى 2 15 نقطة لا تتوفر شارة
المستوى 3 75 نقطة لا تتوفر شارة
المستوى 4 250 نقطة  
المستوى 5 500 نقطة  
المستوى 6 1500 نقطة  
المستوى 7 5000 نقطة  
المستوى 8 15000 نقطة  
المستوى 9 50000 نقطة  
المستوى 10 100000 نقطة  

 

يُرجى ملاحظة أن تحديث نقاطك ومستواك قد يستغرق مدة تصل إلى 24 ساعة. لا تنتهي صلاحية النقاط، ولكنها قد تقل إذا تمت إزالة المحتوى لانتهاكه سياساتنا. واحرص على استمرار بقائك كمساهم نشط على خرائط Google لتكون مؤهلاً للحصول على المزايا وإمكانية الوصول المبكر للميزات الجديدة.

متطلبات البرنامج

واصل المساهم لاستلام جميع مزايا البرنامج. فبعض المزايا تشمل منحنا الأولوية للمرشدين المحليين الذين يساهمون بشكل متسق كل شهر.

التعرّف على مستواك في برنامج المرشدين المحليين

مزيد من المعلومات حول المزايا

ربح شارة المرشدين المحليين

التعليقات، أو التعديلات، أو الصور الخاصة

انخفضت نقاطي. ماذا حدث؟

هل تنتهي صلاحية نقاطي؟

أتمنى لك التوفيق

أخيك راضي من السعودية 🇸🇦

Level 8

My bad luck. Missed this year too @TraciC moy getting VISA. Will miss everyone. 

Namaste,

Niraj

Level 7

Congratulations to all selected Local Guides 

Level 6

@TraciC's how we can check all participants list plzz tell me

Level 10

Thank you for sharing this thread @TraciC.

 

Counting down the days to meet other 150 participants from 50 countries and 60 Googlers

 

Even we Local Guides from the same countries we will met in the very first time in this memorable moments.

 

I will well preparing carefully  for baterries , power bank and data strorages. 

Tag (@BudiFXW) in your post or comment, I will happily to connect with you.
Level 10

What an existing post @TraciC.

This is awesome news!! Many many many Congrats to what seems an amazing event!!

 

I'll read more on the transport in a moment as I am doing an outing now! 

 

Here's to us superstars! !

Level 3

시작하며 베우고 있으니 많은 도움 부탁드립니다 

Level 3

I believe that I am one of the Connect 

Level 4

Sukses  untuk acaranya

Selamat kepada semua pemandu lokal yang dipilih  .......

 

 

 

Salam dari Depok

I am delighted to know about the past events. And this year 2018 too the meet of the local guides will be more wonderful than the previous years with more of the experiences shared among themselves and published in these pages. Wish them all have pleasant & merriful Summit days in San Francisco.

Dhanasekaran
Connect Moderator

Es muy emocionante pensar que en pocos días estaré viajando a San Francisco y viviremos esa emoción de estar todos juntos @TraciC, supongo que el sentimiento la emoción es de varios de nosotros que vamos por primera vez a ese gran evento hoy llamado Connect Live 18 , estoy seguro que tienen varias sorpresas en la manga 🤹‍♀️ para todos nosotros. Nos estamos viendo.

 

Saludos Farid.

Level 8
How can I get a chance for the next meeting
Level 9

Exceptional value for Google maps revolution.

SKPattnaik
Level 9

Hii..

Nice to know the contents..

I am local guide level 8 , I was interested to attend but my  application video  though uploaded in time but could not reach to you.

Wish for next year event to attend..

Regards,

Mukul Meena

Level 8

اريد مساعده اتمنى الانضمام معكم في امريكا

Level 8

@TraciC I have read that some of the people selected for this meet can't go, were alternates picked?

Level 3

Congratulations to all selected local guide