Plan a local meet-up event and connect with other Local Guides to share your expertise, discover the best that your neighbourhood has to offer and make new friends.
To create your meet-up, follow the directions below. For your meet-up to appear on Connect, it needs approval from our team. To be approved, it must bring together Local Guides.
We don’t feature meet-ups that are unrelated to Local Guides.
Plan your meet-up
Meet-up expenses
Funds and incentives aren’t provided by Google. Meet-ups can be low cost or even free of charge. Grab your phone and help others discover the best your area has to offer on Google Maps.
Meet-up ideas
Submit your meet-up
To submit a meet-up:
- Sign in to Local Guides Connect.
- Click Create
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- Click New meet-up.
- Fill in your meet-up details.
- Click Submit.
.To find out more details and tips on meet-up creation, learn how to host a meet-up.
We review your meet-up within 72 hours. We encourage you to submit your meet-up as early as possible. If approved, the meet-up appears in the upcoming meet-ups section.
Make changes to your meet-up
You can make changes to your meet-up directly on Connect. But after it’s approved, changes to the event are reviewed again by our Google moderators before it gets republished. Make sure that you make any necessary changes at least three working days before the meet-up starts.
Cancel your meet-up
To cancel your meet-up:
- Update the title of your meet-up post on Connect to say 'cancelled'.
- At the bottom, click Delete
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.Communicate with attendees
You can use the comments section or Connect’s private message option.
Promote your meet-up
You can share the link to your meet-up on social media and invite other Local Guides through the 'Share' and 'Invite' buttons on Connect. To promote your meet-up through your own social media channels and in your local community, ask attendees to help spread the word and use #LocalGuides.
Suggestions for after your meet-up
After your meet-up, thank your attendees. To add their own photos, create a Google Photos album and share it with attendees. Learn how to create and edit photo albums.
We’d love to hear about your meet-up. Share your photos and recap on Local Guides Connect.
Do not use the Local Guides logo
The Local Guides logo is a Google brand reserved for official use only. Do not use the Local Guides logo, pin or any other Google imagery in your meet-up materials. Learn more about the Local Guides brand.