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Thank you for submitting your Connect Live application

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Photo Caption: Connect Live 2018 branding which includes a global skyline and fireworks.Photo Caption: Connect Live 2018 branding which includes a global skyline and fireworks.

Update, 6/13/18: All 151 selected applicants have been notified about their status and all remaining Local Guides will hear about their status by June 20th.

 

Over the coming days everyone who applied for this year’s Local Guides event, Connect Live 2018, will receive an email about whether or not they have been selected to attend. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for submitting their applications and let you know how much fun the team had in reviewing the thousands (yes, THOUSANDS) of applications.

 

We have selected 151 Local Guides to represent the global community at Connect Live 2018. That’s right: you heard it here first that we selected an extra Local Guide to share information back with the community!

 

Every person selected was carefully reviewed by the team and chosen for a very special reason. While some may not share their status just yet, we ask you to be patient as they work through their excitement — and the details.

 

Overall, it was inspiring to see how committed many of you are to the Local Guides community on top of making fantastic contributions to Google Maps: helping your local community by adding new places, creating lists to help others exploring your area, and hosting meet-ups to connect locally, just to name a few. It was fun learning about your specific passions, too. Whether you were one of the vegan foodies, accessibility champions, or rappers (yes, there were rappers!), you help to keep Connect a warm and welcoming place for Local Guides no matter where in the world you may call home.

 

I’m proud to be a Local Guide and I look forward to seeing our global community grow over the coming weeks, months, and years, especially here on Connect.

 

Keep an eye on #LocalGuidesConnect here on Connect and on social media to hear what folks are saying about this year’s event!

 


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@mdmkoo wrote:

@mdmkoo wrote:

I hope the 151 invited participants can come and share with us their contributions over the years, so we know how to work towards greater chance of participating in Local Guides Connect next year 🙂 It'll be a wealth of knowledge beneficial to the thousands of unselected participants like me!


I have been taking photos when out and about but sometimes procrastinated in sharing the photos... last night i sat down and started sharing all the photos of places that I haven't shared on Google Maps...

 

I'm level 7 now! I'm elated! 

 

Well, I guess I shouldn't procrastinate anymore in contributing... hopefully with my new found enthusiasm, I'll be able to contribute more and more, and get myself selected someday... maybe 2019, maybe 2020... I don't know... haha.

 

For all those who didn't get selected, please do not despair... this is not the end. Let's just continue to do what we love to do best... to share our knowledge with others so as to help others. I'm sure we are all here for that very reason. At least it is for me. Going or not is not the main purpose right? But getting to go will definitely be a huge bonus to any one of us. Let's continue to contribute and share. All the best in the application of LGC in the coming years!! 🙂


Did a shoutout to all local guides in my latest video! ❤️

 

https://youtu.be/gJklfdIatN0?t=2m36s

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If you have not received any kind of mail then there may be many reasons for it

 

Maybe your video will be longer

May be You have not fulfilled all the criteria
Due to all these reasons, your application may not be accepted and there may be other reasons

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Hi @ShravanJain

Just a question. Are you sure that you sent the application on May 28? Can you check the dates please?

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Yes I am pretty sure that I have applied on may april 28,and I meet all criteria required.

@ErmesT @TEJASJANI

Connect Moderator
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Hello @ShravanJain

 

I understand that disappointment you are facing right now. But, I'm afraid you didn't get the point which @ErmesT was trying to raise please check your dates before raising a question. As, on this post it was clearly mentioned that the applications closed on 1st May. And, we all know that after 1st May the link to apply was removed, hence there was no such method left which could enable you to send a application on 28th May (your mentioned date)

 

I hope you get your answer already.

 

Best Regards


@ShravanJain wrote:

Hello there,

It's 22nd June here in India I didn't get any mail saying I have not been selected  for connect live 2018 I have raised this issue on connect live thread but I didn't get any response there.I have applied application on 28th of may but I didn't get any confirmation mail saying that they (Google) have recived my application which was to be supposed to be received by one week after applying application.Since I didn't get any confirmation mail by one week I raised my question here on local guides connect and I got a reply saying because of huge response from local guides to event they couldn't send the confirmation mail within a week.

My doubt is whether my application has been viewed or not.Also I have seen many local guides just like me has not received the mail is this a fault of google,if it is please fix this so in future no one  get disappointed.

@AriMar @GeorgesHR @TraciC @BruceDM

 

P.S. -I have gone through spam folders didnt find any and i recive all other Google mails like monthly report and perks

 

Peace

Shravan😃✌️


 

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Can I check who are those 150 selected member of Local Guide connect summit in California ? 

 

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Assuming that all thousands of applicant deserve the ticket to SF, as the are valuable contributors to the program, it comes down to this: "they prefered somebody else above you."

Remember the criteria to be chosen are not public and different criteria are being used.

The summit is not a collection of the top 150 performing LGs. If that were the case it would be straight forward. The Connect Live gathering has different agendas, one of them is marketing the brand "Local Guides".

 

I don't think that's possible. Cause itsi not about performing local guides rather showing the people from all over the world from differenc races, gender, ages and community is doing work to make this place beautiful.

 

Dip Mandal

Former Google Contributor

Hey @costarican-guide,

 

My guess is that you are referring to the Connect Live emails.

 

I am moving your topic here - Thank you for submitting your Connect Live application

 

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Hello @Jayalakshmi_Rao_S,

 

All email should be out. I would like to ask you to check the spam and promotion folders of your gmail account.

 

I have moved your topic here - Thank you for submitting your Connect Live application

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Former Google Contributor

Hey @Ralwyn9,

 

Thanks for submitting your Connect Live application and thanks for your kind words.

 

I have moved your topic here - Thank you for submitting your Connect Live application.

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oopsy ,i have applied on 28 may   28 april .my bad

@ErmesT @Haseeb 

Connect Moderator

Hi @Darkbytes unfortunately the Connect Live events are only open to registered attendees. 

 

I will merge this with the general post on Connect Live to keep things all in one place.

 

Regards Paul

Connect Moderator

Hi @moqimalam Google will not announce the list of attendees. Those who are going may choose to announce their attendance or not. At some point badges may be allocated for Connect Live.

 

Regards Paul

Connect Moderator

Hi @dipm129 "top performance" is challenging to measure, attendance at Connect Live isn't about just points, its about contribution consistency, quality, presence here on Connect demonstrating the Core Values and promoting Local Guides through MeetUps or otherwise. There were a number of criteria described that attendees are chosen against.

 

For both @dipm129 and @moqimalam it can be challenging to not be chosen for an event, please don't see it as a reflection on your Local Guides activities. 

 

I will move this to to the main post to keep all the information in once place.

 

Regards Paul

Former Google Contributor

Hi @SaiedH,

 

Thanks for submitting your Connect Live application. I have moved your topic here - Thank you for submitting your Connect Live application.

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I have submitted my my application through invitation email, well before deadline date, but neither I received  acknowledgement of my application nor any reply thereof, i.e selection or rejection till 20/06/2018, intimation deadline fixed by Google,   till date I was not sure, weather my application has been submitted or not after pressing submit button on email, this year vedio sharing, process was a tuff one which was enroute through YouTube,  as one goes through private setting  in YouTube,  for next time I suggest that Google should keep video sharing  link direct  in application email, so that  applicant may share what want which download directly in application, 

Good luck cheers everyone

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Better luck next time @Shamsher1

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You are the best @mdmkoo

Congratulations to everyone who made it to the list , I really wanted to participate but I just didn't get the time to make a video because of my exams, hope I can be there next year. Keep Up the good work guys 🙌

Cheers 

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A good deserving question @Shamsher1.

 

Best of luck !

 

Regards

Thokchom DS

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@GeorgesHR

Google Moderator 

I have checked my email but there is no reply email and request please check status of my application. I received email from Google to apply connect live 2018 and applied it.  I hope Sir please do the needful in this regard. I am Local Guide Level 7 actively participated in local Guides Connect as host of Visakhapatnam City of Destiny :INDIA and Contributed Vedios and photos -32 to Album : [Recap] World Wide Photo Walk Meet Up.- 25th February 2018. I am active member of Google Local Guides World, Google Local Guides INDIA, Google Local Guides West Bangal and member of other Countries local Guides Groups. I am not only Local Guide of Maps.Google but also Facebook Super Editor at Facebook Editors Community and I would like to join in Connect Live 2018 exchange innovative ideas with local Guides at San Francisco, California. 

Hope please check my status of application submitted as per email received from Google. Till date I didn't receive any reply email Sir. 

Anticipating your favour and needful actions please. Waiting for your reply emal from Connect Live 2018 

With regards 

Jayalakshmi rao. s 

 

@Jayalakshmi_Rao_S

Local Guide

Level 7 

 

 

Former Google Contributor

@ShravanJain  Hi there! We can't confirm if applications were received, but all Local Guides who successfully applied received a confirmation email within 10 days of submitting their applications. Both selected and rejected applicants were notified by June 20th. If you did not receive either, unfortunately your application was not received. Below is a copy of the original confirmation email if you'd like to search for it in your inbox. I'm going to merge your conversation into our latest thread about Connect Live applications in case others have the same question.

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Ye I am sure that all participants to join of the summit local guides 2018 receive email from Google Local Guides, even get to summit or not, but may be one or more not yet, the time is over, I didn't get to summit this year, I am sure next time I have oppurtunity to get in summit of local guides in 2019, 2020 or countiunusly of next years

I never give up with hard working to help other, We will take big result that we cannot to see now, but next time go to us and give us amazing result without counting, this is factual and amizing if we always be patient and with hard working.

My regards keep spirit and never give up

 

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@trasiKR wrote:

You are the best @mdmkoo


Thank you so much for the amazing affirmation!! 😊

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I think selecting about 150+1 is over, for local guides this year not followed this summit 2018, countiusly by contributing as amazing local guides with giving information amazing places in the world where ever to help the other all nitizen in the world to know the new place that they need to go there, I am sure no one know all interisting places in the world, so each other give information that all know the place they take it, with our cooperation we easely to know some places with contribution from each other.

As Local guides and countiunusly contributing we have helped and make easily any one to get information about places and other

Keep spirit, we are sure we have oppurtunity when we will do any thing, where ever and when ever.

My regards

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@Jayalakshmi_Rao_S  Zaista si zaslužio da budeš pozvan u SF. Da li si član Croatia Local Guides? Ako nisi tu je link https://plus.google.com/communities/101462370169501320564?iem=1

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@Jayalakshmi_Rao_S  Zaista si zaslužio da budeš pozvan u SF. Da li si član Croatia Local Guides? Ako nisi tu je link https://plus.google.com/communities/101462370169501320564?iem=1

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Best of luck in the google connect 2018 trip....

Level 10

Any post relating to the VISA processing & discussion ?

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Yes..Best wishes Dear @Cao-Nguyen for the next year.. and hope to see you one-to-one there at San-francisco ..🤗🤗🤗

 

Hitesh Patel,

Vadodara, India

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Congrats!!!!!!!! I´m very excited to meet you (and to meet the other 149 local guides)!!!!!

 

😄

 

Best Regards!!!!!!

In love of Mexico City
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@Imperiospice are you selected also? 

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Pardon me syeikh @OSAMA

I'm not selected to Local Guides  connect live 2018, thanks for your supports, but never lasting to create best contributing in maps

 

Best Regards

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@OmerAli wrote:

One of those days when you are feeling down and anxious and check your mailbox for no reason at all and suddenly you realize you got a very special email; an email that says
"Thousands applied-and you made the cut"

I feel amazing sharing that I'm in. 🙂
Thanks Google and thanks for everyone here for supporting and making me believe in myself again. I almost quit last year but I kept going.
The list is very very long for the ones who inspired me to get back to do the needful, but here are some mentions

@ErmesT @PaulPavlinovich @OSAMA @HashimN @Haseeb @Anonymous @TariqMahmood


So happy for you!! Please come and share with us your experiences after the event. Have a fun and insightful trip! 😄

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@Safdarrai yes!!!!!!! I´m so glad!!

In love of Mexico City
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Best Summit Ever!

With Peace & Love
- PRK
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Hi @Pranesh_PRK:

Connect Live 2018 will be held on Oct. 16 to 18. You'll find details for the event here.

I'll be merging your post as well to the ongoing discussion for the event. Thanks! 🙂

Please post publicly so others can benefit as well. I do not have private messages. Thanks!
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@Imperiospice,

Many Many Congratulations to you for being most eligible GLG..🌹👍

It Seems that you would be possessing the Lowest Most Level 6, who made this opportunity to grab firmly. You are really appreciable & wishing you Best Luck on behalf of whole GLG Community.

I want to learn something from you, and that may helpful to others too. Would you please share your overall experience being a LG, the work done by you & the focus of area in which you worked hard.

(This is purely for learning the way we should work like you).

Your detailed views & experience would be appreciated.

Best Wishes& Have a Great time ahead..💐🌹💃💃💃

 

Hitesh

Vadodara, india

Hi 

@TraciC ,

Google Moderator 

As per invitation email from Google  I submitted my application to join in Connect live 2018 on 27th April 2018 with vedio and visa. Till date I did not receive any email from Connect Live please find out my application status of Jayalakshmi rao. s

Waiting for your reply email. 

With regards 

@Jayalakshmi_Rao_S

Local Guide 

Level 7

 

 

Connect Moderator

@Jayalakshmi_Rao_S Did you ever received a confirmation email with the subject line 'Thanks for applying to join Connect Live!' ? If you never got email, that means your application wasn't submitted successfully. 

Level 9

 Congratulations to you I really feeling happy for your selection and your lucky too, best of Luck @Imperiospice and please give us feedback when you guys are back from connect. 

Best Regards,

Safdar Rai

Hi 

Received invitation email to join connect live 2018. Submitted as per link my application with vedio and visa.details on 27th April 2018.as Jayalakshmi rao. s .

Waiting for reply email. 

@Jayalakshmi_Rao_S

Local Guide 

Level 7

 

Level 8

you are totally confused by lot of things.. first of all the form you filled and sent along with visa application on April was application form for connect live, you may receive confirmation mail if you submitted correctly and if you got selected to connect live 2018 you will receive another mail from local guide. If not received then you are not selected try best for next event...

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@Safdarrai 

Thank you! I'm sure it will be a great experience to improve our work and future contributions.

a hug and I will be sharing my networks in real time as much as possible.

In love of Mexico City
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You are welcome my dear friend and best fellow member in this forum A big hug from my side. Sure we'll wait for your future posts and feedback too @Imperiospice

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@Hitesh_68

 

Hello! It is correct, I have a level 6 and I am very proud of my contributions, I am still working on raising my level and I am very close to level 7. My contributions are "locally", I do not travel much and that is why I focus on Mexico city, adding places, validating a lot of information and above all, making reviews that are useful for those who look for information in google maps. In a city with an economy like ours, information is more valuable every day, saving people time, money and effort, is a great goal!!!!.

For this summit, I know that there will be several local Guides with level 6 and other levels, I think it is a great opportunity to share experiences and knowledge to return to our countries as ambassadors who can contribute to help the community grow and create a map useful for millions.

This community is based on sharing and helping others, so that we will do in #localguidesconnect2018.

Regards!

In love of Mexico City
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@Safdarrai 😄

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Hi @Imperiospice,

Congratulations & Best wishes to you for the mega event @connectlive2018. U deserve to be there. As U said, we all will improve Google Maps and other contributions thereby improve our levels to qualify for next year's event, hopefully . Enjoy with all LGs, learn & share with us whatever possible. Have fun.  A big hug!

Friendly ,

Shiva