PAY ATTENTION!!

….because, you just might be missing a feature that could save your day …or make you more money ….or save you tons of time ….which is saving money, right? Doesn’t everyone always say that “Time is money!” You betcha they do!

Let’s get to it, then, shall we? I’m going to Social Fresh on Sunday – as you can see in my sidebar. Super groovy awesome thing, that. And I won my ticket, too – from a super groovy awesome dude named Jason “Super Cool” Falls. Makes it even cooler, no? Makes you a little jealous, yes?

I’m meeting my good friend and totally awesome mentor, Lynn Terry, there. And I was thinking, with my darn sore broken foot, and meager ok, I’m completely clueless navigation skills, and minivan having some issue with the brakes – I might just take the bus. I mean, that’s a lot of reasons to take it, don’t you think?

So I was wondering if Lynn would be able to pick me up from the bus station (can’t remember if her car will be there) or if I had to take a taxi, how terrible (if at all) the fee would be. I mean, it could be twenty miles from the hotel. So I head over to Google maps and check things out. Cool thing is, the station is only 2.5 miles from the hotel.

Even cooler thing – I can embed the map! I was looking for a way to email it to myself and I discovered that you can actually embed it! You just click on the upper right where it says ‘link’ and it gives you the direct link – which is VERY long – I emailed it to myself. (Wasn’t quite as long as the URL’s that my buddy, John uses! Ha!) It was long, though, and looked kind of funny in the email. I’m easily amused, too, so that probably doesn’t even count.

It also gives you the option to customize and preview the embedded map – before you embed it. Which is great, because, on this site, I’d need the medium map, as opposed to the one I really liked, which was the large one – which I could easily use on Hippie Spelunker. The small one is oh-so-boring, but, I’m sure it could come in handy, too. And after all of this drivel, here is the map:

And it, of course, links back to the original. So let’s say, for example, Lynn can pick me up and I need to show her the map – all I have to do is show it to her right here on this blog post! Which is a much easier URL to share than that giant Google Maps one! And I’m sure there are plenty of other uses for it, as well!

And the main point is, to just. pay. attention. And who I’m really SCREAMING this at is

….dun dun dun

…..MYSELF! This is the second time in a week that this has happened to me. Something right under my nose, that’s been there all along, that I have never even noticed. Only problem is, I forgot what the first one was. Which is another good reason for starting this series – so that I can go back through it and learn (re-learn) a thing or two – that just might really help me out one day!

So ….

PAY ATTENTION!!

And pay attention to my “Pay Attention” series to see what cool thing is right under our noses next!