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Reflecting on a great week at Connect Live 2018

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Caption: A photo of the back of a Googler wearing a Connect Live 2018 T-shirt while watching Jen Fitzpatrick, VP of Google Maps, deliver a keynote.Caption: A photo of the back of a Googler wearing a Connect Live 2018 T-shirt while watching Jen Fitzpatrick, VP of Google Maps, deliver a keynote.Last Thursday, we wrapped up two and a half days of what I can only describe as awesomeness at Google’s campus in Mountain View with an awards ceremony, glow party, and Ricoh Theta V camera giveaway courtesy of the Street View team for our 151 attendees from 59 countries.

 

Caption: A group photo of Local Guide attendees at Connect Live 2018 holding up flags from their home countries as well as Local Guides props.Caption: A group photo of Local Guide attendees at Connect Live 2018 holding up flags from their home countries as well as Local Guides props.

 

Over 100 Googlers from across Google participated in the event, whether it was by hosting a talk or by attending our daily Googler Office Hours where Local Guides could bring their issues and ideas directly to the product manager working on that area.

 

Over the course of the two days, attendees participated in their choice of four sessions, chosen out of 19 topics in total which ranged from Make Your Own Street View, to Shaping the Future of Map Editing, to Local Guides Helping Local Businesses.

 

Caption: A photo of Local Guides sitting in the audience and smiling during Connect Live 2018.Caption: A photo of Local Guides sitting in the audience and smiling during Connect Live 2018.

 

While we hosted three parties in total—and wow, were they fun—we debuted the Local Guides Lounge, a place where they could gather to play games, share ideas, and get to know each other even better.

 

Attendees and Googlers have shared an incredible amount of photos and posts using #localguidesconnect, and we thank you for following along with us. If you haven’t yet, head on over to your favorite social media platform to see the event through their eyes.

 

Thank you for following along and I hope you’ll enjoy seeing more information from Connect Live 2018 over the coming weeks!


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Level 6

Другият път и мен да поканите.

Благодаря Ви момчета.

Level 10

@TraciC AMAZING event!!!!

Increible evento lo que organiza Google, en la antigüedad era casi imposible conectarse en segundos hacia el otro lado del mundo, ahora eso resulta en instantes. Gracias Google.

Google Moderator

Здравей @Desi73,

 

Както си забелязала от снимките, наистина е било много интересно и забавно. Ако се интересуваш от Connect Live можеш да последваш този линк и да видиш как са протекли и предходните издания, както и да следиш за бъдещо събитие. 

Също така имай предвид, че ти самата можеш да организираш meet-up за теб и за други Local Guides в твоя район.

Препоръчвам ти да хвърлиш един поглед на поста How to Organize a Local Guides Meetup, където ще намериш различни съвети и идеи, за това  какви дейности може да се планират.

 

Ако имаш желание, можеш да се предстажиш в ежемесечната ни тема Introduce Yourself.

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 thank you Sir


Local Guide From India


 

Level 8

"Shaping the Future of Map Editing"???

Can you write something more? Actually we haven't possibility to edit (shapes in) Google Maps, we can only send feedback.

There is no possibility to draw new roads nor bicycle paths, nor touristic trails...

 

I was in California a week ago. Believe me that outside USA, Google Maps aren't so good: in my country (Poland) the StreetView in inactual (2012), there is lack of many new roads on Maps (and also in StretView) and reports about it are ignored. I'm sorry to say it, but most of users escapes from Google Maps to other maps, due to Google's outdating.

In our neighbors (Czech Republic) Google Maps aren't the most popular -- they use mapy.cz
In Russia, they use yandex.ru/maps also more popular then Google Maps. Not because there is more functions, features etc, but because it is earlier updated, it is more actual.

 

Regards

    :-Przemo.

Level 8

My busy schedule here doesn't permit me to spend more time on Google Guide activities but I try to contribute whenever I can. It's an awesome place to interact. Love it. 

 

Connect Moderator

thanks @TraciC For this post. Being able to attend Connect Live this year is really great for me. I love how team listen our yearly feedback 🙂

Indonesia Local Guides
Level 7

@TraciC Thanks for sharing with as

i hope i i will join next event...if arrange next Year  by my location like in  India

Level 6
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Level 9

Nice to watch the photos posted by you.. .....Than you so much..

Really it is exciting to witness the people with different culture, different outfit, language,region and country. The local guides are doing marvellous work.

I fully agree that every localguide should know the other LG of his/her city and country.

It is my humble suggestion here;--

 There should be three level constitution in our LG community.

First will be called Regional level..we should enrole all LGs regionwise and give them an identity member number. We should have a gathering at local guide every bimonthly, then  we should have a gathering at country national level at six monthly basis ,We should have interaction at country level and third level we should have  the international meet. This selection should be based on each LG's performance at regional and National level.This three tiar system will help all  the LGs to remain active and stay connected  with the forum.

Regards,

Mukul Meena.

LG level 8 

India.

 

Next time maybe try to go Google Local Guides metup hope invite me from Assam, India Thank You

Level 10

Thanks @TraciC

 

 

 

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Thank you for share with us. 🇧🇩🇧🇩 #LocalGuides #BangladeshLocalGuides #Bangladesh
Level 1

Thanks for sharing with us. Amazing event!!!!!

 

THIS IS GORGEOUS 

Hii iam krishna contact me <REDACTED PHONE NUMBER>

  @captnpya it can be appreciated by all Googlers that anyone who may not get involved seriously in the activities of Local Guides posting and Google maps  may be busy elsewhere in their own job/ business or in some other social websites.

But one who spared time to Local  Guides & Google Maps cause in spite of their tight schedules is really a great matter.

Slow & Steady can also work out to success!

Dhanasekaran

feeling great to be a part of this

Former Google Contributor

Hi @Krishnabanoth,

 

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A new knowledge regarding Local Guide for me. 

 

Thank you

Level 4

Was there someone from Turkey? 

Level 6

Wow... It's amazing, 

Level 8
I hope to join in the next event
Level 1

hello @TraciC have nice day

Namaste😀

Wow super wow Google Teams.Many time many month many minutes we are try to helps on Google Local Guides.So this event gone next event i try to paticilate 2019.Thank You Google Local Guide Connect.

 

From India Jai Hind

Level 8

Very nice. If I were attend the party! 

Level 7

How I can join it?

Former Google Contributor

Hey @Zulkarnain93,

 

It's great that you're interested in participating in Connect Live. This year's event just passed a month ago and the current thread was created to showcase a few highlights of it.
 

I'd suggest you to visit the Connect Live website for more information and stay tuned for news related to future events.

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Level 5

Wow it's really a nyc still go on doing

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Level 7

 Wow @TraciC A new world of beautiful local guides.Contributions are gifts to the world ,to the people and to the generations.

InshaAllah hope to see you in the next summit.


I could have sworn that I seen an invite to this in my inbox , but after confirming that it was a real thing (not everyday you get an offer to fly to SF for free) when I went back to so if it was an ad or an invite , for some reason I just couldn't find the message?!? Well after seeing that it is a real thing, and was probably a real offer, I envy everyone of you that was able to make it out there and connect with what makes Google, Google, ALL OF US!!!! I think Google will play a very integral roll in Earth's future society and I am happy to have started to become a part of shaping, building, and growing it into what it has and will continue to become! If you need to ask what that is, I'd be surprised, and i would smile and tell you "the absolute greatest, most comprehensive and vast knowledge base in the history of human evolution! It really is, we are all contributing to the greatest source of collective knowledge EVER KNOWN! In fact it's so great, 8 very much feel that we haven't begun to even tap into the surface of what answers you can expect to reliably discover when you start breaking knowledge/input, into categories and then levels of "verified as fact" , and stuff like "popularized opinion" , "reaction", "collective emotion" and the list could go on and on and on. But its perdictability based off of probability, based off unbiased, unmotivated, NATURAL human responses and reactions, to questions posed by humans across the globe as we type away on our keyboards daily in our ever continuous seach for KNOWLEDGE! It is such a beautiful thing to me. We are currently the only known (and verified to the public) inyellegent species im the galaxy, but I have a strong feeling that in one way or another, someway and somehow GOOGLE will be a very big part in changing that theory! Ill be quite about that for now, I'm sure we will all eventually see what i mean, but until then... lets all keep searching for answers! (Wow, that was a mouthful and this isn't even an introduction post, but it 8s my first post here in the community! I spend alot of time doing reviews of places around me to contribute to Google as well as to help others share my experiences so hopefully they can have one and share one too!)

Level 6
Hope I can go to the Connect Live in future 😆
Thanh Tuan
Level 6

Merry Christmas my to my follow loca guide,let this coming year be a Glorious and wonderful, and again appologies not contribute since I have be little busy since or this why 

Level 10

@TraciC its an awesome experience to be part of the celebrations in SF.

Congratulations to the entire team for hosting a great event.

Level 8

Gostaria muito muito de poder participar do connct Live 2018 era o meu sonho mais infelizmente eu só domino a língua portuguesa é posriço não pude me escrever mais quem sabe eu tenho a chance em outros eventos do Google ainda vou continua sonhado espero um dia consegui 

Welcome Dear @UrbanIntellect612  to the great world community. And thanks for your great introductory post with Noble thoughts, Ambitions and Inspiration

Abdul Kalam the Ex- President of India have said "Keep Dreaming Everyday Till You Achieve Your Goal with Your Efforts." 

I believe that you will surely make your way to San Francisco in the next Summit with perseverance. 

All the Best!

Dhanasekaran
Level 8

Next event will be a good Google at connect live 2019.

Level 8

I want to join this event, but this place is very far from my hometown.

Level 9

I was not selected for connect live 2018 but when i saw the highlights and videos releated to connectlive it's full of excitement to meet google moderators and various local guides around the world , my heartily thanks to all the local guides to represent their country and big thanks to the organising members of Google. @TraciC

Wao...I am very excited when i see this picture of local guider .I hope I also will attending upcoming meeting.

Level 10

@TraciCThanks for the information that we enjoyed and glad to know that it was very useful and fruitful., hoping for the best to participate next time.

jojo
Level 10

How does one go about getting invited to the next one?

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Former Google Contributor

Hi @KokoySeverino,

 

In the topic: In the Announcing this year’s big event: Connect Live 2018! you can find all the information you need. Any updates about possible events during 2019 will be announced on Connect.

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Level 8

Rit is a great news announced by Google localguides connect live to be held in SFO mountain view CA during Oct 2019 I am Keshavan Sr Engineer Sr Citizen residing in Bangalore Karnataka India is Builder I am ardent traveller nature lover hiker nature photographer good food lover want to meet people around world in a common platform exchange cultural views

 

to meet you all and be there to exchange my views with all of you for a united World with peace harmony

Presently I have 10 yrs visiter visa and have already visited USA SFO Reno NV in 2008 and 2013-2014 and quite accquainted. With places in SFO CA lA Reno Los Vegas Grand Canaan Carson city Virginia Gold crest and lake thoho

so hope to meet you all positively

 

Rgds

Keshavan

Level 8

Ce genre d’événement me plaît beaucoup car rencontrer les local guides des différents pays est un rêve pour moi et je pense je serais le premier participant de mon (pays République Démocratique du Congo)

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Many people liked at Connect Live 2018!

Level 8

Salut

@TraciC après avoir lu plusieurs posts je viens de me rendre compte que nous les qui parlent français on a pas vraiment trop  à bénéficier comme meet-up sur local guide connect 

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