We've recently launched a global contest - GBG Stories Search to find the most inspiring stories on how entrepreneurs and startups use Google technologies to be successful and we'd like to invite you to extend this contest to the communities within your region.

This contest is open to the public, including GBG / GDG members. The submissions can be divided into 3 categories : Tech, Social Impact and SMB. The judging criteria is as follow :

• Inspirational quality (60%)the ability to inspire others through a unique description of the personal and/or professional obstacles that were overcome to achieve success
• Impact (20%)the business’s positive impact on industry, society, community or environment (20%)
• Innovative use of Google products (20%)the business's unique and creative uses of the internet and Google products and services for their business

What do they get?

• Top 9 will be getting a promotional video that our video crew will be shooting
• Top 3 will be sent to Google HQ for business mentoring by experts

We've drafted social media content that's easily shareable and it'll be awesome if you can help share it as well. Copies can be localized and social media assets include images and videos that you can share.

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1B3m3qwJXml_vUUlKut7l_4p9STrTZRj_EzYLOV0sli0/edit?usp=sharing

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https://www.google.com/landing/gbg/stories