How to make the most of creating and finding relevant posts on Connect

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Caption: A screenshot of a mobile device showing someone’s favorite location of New York, NY, USA with the new filtering labels including COVID-19.

Each time you create a new post on Connect, you must pick one of seven topic labels for your post. You can choose from Photography, Travel, Food & Drink, Local Stories, Meet-ups, How-tos, or Achievements.

These topics help make sure that your post is relevant to Local Guides and helps keep Connect organized. But did you know that you can add more information to your posts to help others find what they might be looking for? For example, did you know that you can now find all posts under Local Stories that uses the new label, COVID-19, to find out what other Local Guides are discussing and how they're helping their local communities?

Caption: A screenshot of the optional information you can add when you start a new post.

In addition for following our suggestions for writing great posts, we recommend you also add the following to your posts when appropriate:

• Location: Adding a location to your post will help others looking for posts about that area find your post. It’s important to only add a location (city and country) to your post when your post is about that city and country. The location should not be where you are at the time of writing. 
• Additional Topic: After you select a topic, you will see a list of suggested topics. If your post has a suggested tag that makes sense, please add one.
• Details: This is where you can add the language for your post. If you have written the post in English, there is no need to add the tag. 

Adding this information will help others looking for posts about that area or topic to find your post. On April 6, 2020, we launched a new feature that allows Local Guides to follow up to three locations. Today, you can now filter your Favorite Locations by topics, too! 

Caption: A screenshot of Favorite Locations with the new filtering capabilities.

You can filter each board using the menu above posts:

• All posts
• Recent posts
• Trending posts
• Unanswered posts
• Additional topic labels, including COVID-19, which is for posts related to COVID-19
• Language

Do you add this information to posts or will you now? Share a link to one of your favorite posts that includes all of the recommended information in the comments below for a chance to be featured on Connect.