Introduce Yourself — July 2022

[AngieYC]

Hi everyone! Welcome to Local Guides Connect. Please take a moment to introduce yourself to our community.

As “Introduce Yourself” threads can be lengthy, we start a new one each month and lock past threads. You can check previous threads, like June's, to see who recently joined and where they’re from. We’ll merge any “I’m new” and “Hello world” posts we find elsewhere with this thread to keep things organized.

Do you want to be featured in our monthly Introduce Yourself posts? Share your introduction in the comments, following the five prompts below, and a horizontal photo of yourself (in landscape mode). We will select one of the best introductions and include it in our next month’s post. Please note: Your response may be edited for clarity. By taking part in this challenge, you agree to us sharing your answers and photo(s) publicly here on Connect.

This month, meet @Yoshi_Mirai! Yoshi is a Local Guide Level 8, and here’s what they shared about themselves. 

Caption: A photo of Yoshi smiling and waving at Monument Valley, AZ, USA. (Local Guide @Yoshi_Mirai)1. Name: Yoshi

2. Location: Tokyo, Japan

3. What I love about being a Local Guide: I can share about and recommend hiking trails in Japan to international visitors. 

4. My favorite thing to explore: Natural hot springs, wildlife (birds), and wildflowers. I want to try contributing 360 photos and Street View.

5. Fun fact about me: I enjoy writing fiction and plays.

Nice to meet you, Yoshi! Local Guides, don’t miss the chance to say hi to Yoshi in the comments below and to share your introduction, too.

[jaypeekong]

Hi there, I'm  Jaypee Kong a local contributor from the Philippines. Since the pandemic started, there's a lot of changes in business locations here in Manila, Philippines. Every time I look into places, the shop is closed or moved permanently to another location and if the business owner has no idea if his/her business is existing on the web, they lose clients without knowing it. This was the time that I started to contribute to  Google Maps to help other users and at the same time, to adopt the algorithm and behavior of Google Business Profile how it works and how can I apply this to digital business to help business owners.

[SholaIB]

Hello @AngieYC 

Happy July to you and Happy sixth birthday to connect in advance this July. Thank you for starting the July thread of Introduction. A warm welcome to all the newbies in the house and hello to all local guides.

@Yoshi_Mirai nice to meet you and to know more about you. May I ask you a question, tell us more about your hiking experience? What's the most thrilling hiking you've ever gone and what's the distance? I am.not much into birds in particular but I love nature in general. I like 360 photos as well,I have contributed 136 Sv photos so far. Still looking out for more chance to do more. 

Enjoy your time on connect, keep active and keep guiding.

Cheers 

[NareshDarji]

Thanks @AngieYC for starting this months introduction post. 

Nice to meet you 🤗 @Yoshi_Mirai

[SholaIB]

Hello @jaypeekong 

Wow ! Welcome to connect this July day. Thank you for your introduction as well. This will be a good post to be in the Introduce-Yourself-July-2022 thread. We have a monthly thread where Local guides can introduce themselves.

It's good to know you have been contributing to the maps. That's the aim of local guides. Keep contributing and happy Mapping.

To make you feel comfortable and at home here I will kindly present to you A Welcome-to-Connect-Card . The card contains useful links and information about connect. It will help you to know how best to use connect and enjoy it. Nice to meet you...

Cheers 

[Sophia_Cambodia]

Hello July, thank you for posting the topic @AngieYC and nice to learn about you @Yoshi_Mirai san. Hope we can get in touch and that Japan is in my Bucket List, if time permits I should be there in the future.

[AngieYC]

Hi @jaypeekong,

Welcome to Connect!

I would like to inform you that I redacted the image you shared in your post, since it is your personal information.

Here on Connect, we value everyone's privacy and we discourage Local Guides from sharing personal information about themselves or someone else. You can leverage our private messaging system if you wish to exchange personal details with someone.

In addition to that, as mentioned by @SholaIB, since you are new on Connect, I will merge your post to our monthly introduction post, where you can tell us more about yourself and to meet other Local Guides. 

I also suggest you to check out the following article: Your guide to Connect to get to know the community.

[AdamGT]

Hello @Yoshi_Mirai and I love that awesome photo of you at Monument Valley as I too love hiking!  So much more that I really do hope to read more Connect posts from you with more great hiking photos Yoshi 😉

[jaypeekong]

@AngieYC  thank you for guiding me. Thanks, everyone for a warm welcome. God Bless 🙂

[jaypeekong]

Thanks @SholaIB  for guiding me 🙂