Where’s Waldo? Or SAPTechEd attendees, take your pick
It’s never too early to start planning your own personal SAPTechEd experience. Of course, you are looking at the preconference sessions, and trying to figure out how to get into some of the many hands-on sessions. As a matter of fact, you can begin to double and triple book your time (virtually) even now.
But do you know who else is going to your SAPTechEd event? Or where they are from? Do you have friends, contacts, former co-workers who have moved along, and wonder where they will be?
Why not start the ball rolling. Go to this little Google Map, and put a pushpin in for yourself. I chose the colors sort of randomly, but we will all be able to see who is going to which event, and from which country. It might just be a pretty colorful map!
SAPTechEd LV
SAPTechEd Berlin
SAPTechEd Bangalore
SAPTechEd Shanghai
Now, I don’t know if there is any hard and fast benefit to doing this – but it’s just supposed to be a little mid-summer fun to get your SAPTechEd clock ticking.
Hope to see you there! Where? Well, you have to check out the map to find out.
View Who is going to SAPTechEd – and add yourself!
I added this blog to the SCN geocoding wiki page. /jim
Sorry for the confusing interface, but I am a workflow person, not a Google Maps person. I appreciate your contributions though!
Someone in an executive park changed the title of the map too, so I hope you are not offended if I changed it back 🙂
Cheers,
Sue
https://twitter.com/mattharding/status/18756044038
BTW, Sue, doesn't this kind of fall under "what goes on in Vegas, stays in Vegas" ?
Also, it might be useful to have a slightly different pin that shows where each of the SAP TechEds are running..
When you add your pin (and have the chance to add details to it) if you click on the pin itself in the popup, you can change the color to reflect which SAPTechEd event you are attending.
Hope this helps - hope to see lots of pins!
Sue
Jim
How do I add a pushpin to the map?!
You go to the map, and in the left hand pane there is an 'Edit' button'. Once you push this, you should see (on the map) three icons - a hand, a teardrop, a wavy line. Push the teardrop-shaped icon. Then once you place your pin, you can double click on it to change the color - to indicate which TechEd you are attending - and also add any details you'd care to share.
Hope this helps (welcome Noob!)
Sue
It's funny how CE, ABAP, WD, etc can all be straight forward and then adding a pin to a map stumps me!
Gareth.