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Join us in celebrating two years of Connect

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Caption: A graphic displaying the number two in alternating screens with celebratory decor including balloons, champagne, and candy.Caption: A graphic displaying the number two in alternating screens with celebratory decor including balloons, champagne, and candy.

 

On July 15, 2016, we launched Connect to give Local Guides like you a single, official place to communicate with each other. We hoped that Connect would be a place where you could literally connect with others just like you and those not-so-much like you to make new friendships that would help you in your Local Guides experience.

 

As we shared earlier this week, new and exciting features are coming to Connect. We can’t wait to share them with you because we know these features will help to connect even more Local Guides with one another — and with us Googlers, too.

 

This July 15, we’re celebrating two years of Local Guides Connect — and you — so I wanted to take a look at what we’ve done together in this time:

  • 700,000+ Local Guides are registered on Connect (and many of those log in at least monthly!)
  • 300,000+ discussions have been started
  • 500,000+ replies have been posted
  • 15,000+ solutions have been accepted
  • 14 people have become Connect Moderators (though we currently have 13)
  • 1,000,000+ kudos have been given

Note: The above numbers include activity from across our community including private boards so they may differ from what you see in the community.

 

Here are a few of my favorite things since we launched Connect:

  • Seeing everyone communicate no matter where they live, the language they speak, or the type of Local Guide they are
  • Interacting with so many of you and learning what makes you the great Local Guides you are
  • Finding out that many of you have such strong passions that you’ve found a way to highlight with Google Maps and through the Local Guides program. For example, helping to rebuild your city after an earthquake and working with underserved populations in your community
  • Connect Moderators: You have a special place in my heart because meeting other Local Guides like me who are passionate about keeping Connect a warm and welcoming place for everyone just feeds my soul

 

Thank you all for making Connect such a wonderful place to visit each day. Now tell me, what’s YOUR favorite thing about Connect?

 


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305 Comments
Level 6

congratulations & very cool!!

Level 7

Wow 2 years, cool. 

Level 7
Wow 2 years, cool.

Very interesting to join in the World Google Local Guides.

Level 7

MANY LEARN ABOUT GOOGLE LOCAL GUIDES 

SUPPORT TO  CUSTOMERCARE  IMPROVED 100% GOOD WORK

 I'm feeling so much lucky to be a part of such a revolution. It's 2 years of connect and a month for me to completely become a local guide. Today I'm already so proud of this community and these bits of information increases my happiness and I'm sure same for my fellow guides.

Rishabh Bansal
Level 8

I am glad to see sooO many new LGs since I joined on September 26th 2017.

 

I wonder where my old fellow LGs cyber friends have gone to.  It seems we are no longer visible to each other when we tag each other.

 

Maby I need to pay more attention.

 


Level 6

I'm still quite new in this local guide, I hope to connect something useful to all of us and I can add the experience through sharing from you all. Thanks @TraciC and Google Team

 at this moment what I want to say is I want to be a google co-ordinator

Level 9

Proud to be associated with Google maps as a level 9 local guide.

SKPattnaik
Level 9

Plz. Issue cirtificates to local guides.

SKPattnaik

Thanks to all Event contributors,,  Googlers, for reaching such an amazing level..

I wish that the future events can be prospected in Greater Proportions.

Dhanasekaran

Thanks @TraciC.       

 fot providing the statistics of the activities of the participating Local.Guides with interesting facts.

 

Please bring out more analysis of Local Guides of the countries who have contributed the least so that it may inspire the "sleeping" Local Guides to contribute more on par with others to reach an appreciable target.

Can you  give the number of Local Guides from MYANMAR participating in Local guides program or involving in Google Maps contribution.

I have a project to visit Myanmar for 2 months from December to to inspire my near & dears to contribute to Maps ..... for  I myself find it rather difficult to plan a tour of my birth country in that purview of a Layman.living in India or any other counties around.

More Cultures, Places ... yet to be explored! 

Dhanasekaran

@VBenedic

Hi bene dictor  ! 

It may not be the case that most of the old guys among the Local Guides are not seen. It may be due to the reason that in a festival where more people joined the Mela we are unable to locate them

Dhanasekaran

Welcome @day82 

Wish you all the best in your effort & become one of the most famous with your dedicated involvements.

Dhanasekaran

@mudukaci_mukasaplease bring out more details of Uganda so as to make it one if the Dream Destination for the world to visit Uganda. 

All the Best in your efforts.

Dhanasekaran

When and which country metup On Novemver month?

@karthik_kumar

Adding GST (Goods and Services Tax) number is a matter of option to be considered by the Corporates as to whether they want to make it public in a social media - not to mention that their products & services do contain GST number as a mandatory requirement.

Before entering into a transaction with a Company the phone number, email & addresses if their office or warehouses is essential... mostly these are given by them.

The of GST is required on completion of the transaction.by the public or business men to take the credit of tax paid if the product is used in making of another taxable product. So also the Tax department need the number... it is nevertheless to say that the Tax Department are already aware of the registration number.

So adding of GST number is superfluous.

Yet I welcome your suggestion of new ideas in spite of discussions of pros.

Dhanasekaran

I@Radioinpark

The comments expressed in your words is not understandable for people like me it is difficult to decode the purpose or your intentions.

If it is the translated text it doesn't matter you add the text of you own language. (It may also due to the jumbling of the suggestive words in android phone keypad substituting originally intended words!)

Google translate is always their to help us translate and make out the right meaning of the comments in other languages.

Would you please re-post what you intent to say in your own language ... it is no harm.

.

Dhanasekaran

Very nice I praud it.

It s my passion. 

Level 6

Time flies and I am glad connect has brought a lot of achievement. I'm grateful

to be in the family.

Level 9

Happy Birthday for our Local Guides Connect 😊🎂👌

 

Yes, Local Guide Connect helped us in may ways, I remember the progress it went through and I believe many efforts put to make it valuable place and its becoming so day by day 🗺🗺🌏🌏🌟🌟

 

Big thanks for everyone who supported this platform, starting with @TraciC, @team_t the @Moderators and evey single local guide, you are amazing .. 

 

Cheers,

Level 6

It has been a pleasure being a local guide and I'll love to do more...

 

Level 8

Félicitations à ceux qui ont créé ce projet.

 

Deux ans, ça se fête mais le plus important c'est tout le travail que toutes les personnes qui ont des responsabilités dans ce projet y mettent tout leur coeur.  Ça prend des passionnés pour réussir.

 

Et ça prend aussi des LG qui croient au projet. 

 

Bravo et bonne fête à tous...

 

@TraciC

                Happy big 2yrs birthday to Local Guides Connect. How time flies.

                           It’s been an awesome experience so far. The beautiful thing about the Connect Family is that I have at least one friend in every country of the world world courtesy of the Local Guides program. 

Thank you @TraciC@connect

   Happy birthday connect

@TraciC@I am happy to join connect family😁

Congratulations to all Event contributors, all the Google peeps for reaching such an amazing level. I wish that more upcoming events can be prospected in a greater magnitude.

Rishabh Bansal
Connect with #localguidesconnect 2018 and share with your world it make to more expriences with others peoples want to visit places ,Countries Cities #localguidesconnect ,thank you

@PranabDaulagupu

@RishabhBansal

Connect Live is scheduled to be held on 8.12.2018 at Gurugavn Delhi at Peoples & co and the participants from India who attended Connect meet at San Francisco have been primarily invited. It appears that Delhi Local Guides have also been invited. People from other places may wait & see if there is any invitation from their City/ region.

Dhanasekaran

Tak terasa local guides sudah hadir melayani dan membantu setiap orang dalam mencari informasi suatu tempat. Terimakasih 😊 Bunga from Indonesia

Level 8

FAHAD ALMOUTIRI 

FAHAD ALMOUTIRI
Saudi Airbi and Rayudh
fahadalm098@gmail.com
fahad000fahad@gmail.com

Google Local Guides  are super hero .Helpping each others peoples 

Level 6

Happy 2nd anniversary to connect, we appreciate your closeness to us and how you make us interact with more local guiders all around the map.

Level 8

@TraciC I like reading write ups on travel, culture, food and photography

Level 9

Thank you dear @TraciC for your post .

Congratulations!

As for me,it is the best place to communicate with local guides from all over the world!

It is great opportunity to share your opinion,your photos,your ideas,impressions from travelling!

Every day I know a lot of new things about culture,tourist attractions ,cuisune in different countries.

I am so happy,that I have many friend s in diffetent countries,and I have a great opportunity to take part in Meet Up in different countries.It gives me positive,energy,a lot of impressions and a great expierence.

I am happy to be a part of this big community.!

 

 

Level 6

Happy birthday! Let's keep on to work on the maps and make them more useful and friendly!

 

Great! Congratulations local guides family.

Life is better when we are connected!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK FOR US!

DoN Daniele Torza
Level 7

Congratulations for all local guides for 2 years celebration. My favorite thing on connect, " solving  the problem of local guides for map editing 

What we love in our connect, İ am very happy to communicate with Hot People from many parts of the world really anyone working with dedication. The photos are great. Çaydere Waterfalls BursaÇaydere Waterfalls Bursa

 

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Level 7

Thank you very much for sharing with us, @TraciC 

You know, for me the most favorite thing about Connect is that I can learn new things, good tips, various cultures and I can travel to a variety of countries for free. ))

Connect to nice yearsConnect to nice yearsConnect to nice years

 

Connect to nice yearsConnect to nice yearsConnect to nice years

Craying SycamaourCraying Sycamaour

 

Level 8

Many more happy returns...!!!

Level 8

من فكرة إلى حقيقة إلى قصة حتى أصبحت دكرة ومن ثم صورة وبعدها مكان يقده الناس وأصبح التطوير وإرشادات ومن ثم تطوير وبرامج جديدة تخدم المجتمع وتلبي مطالب المجتمع هده هي التنمية المستدامة على التطويرالمجتمع والتحديات المشتركة . شكرا لغوكلين ادا شارك وجمع تلك الأطياف وإبداء بنجاز  وانجاز إلى المستقبلال الدي ليس له حدا في الوقوف

Level 7

Wow, Two Years, Big move... Congratulation...

Level 5
i'm so happy to be parts of such amazing family as local guide ❤️ congratulations for more success ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Majdi Chaaben
Level 10

Great experience!

jojo